Thursday Screening: March 14, 2024
Sudan's ongoing silent suffering and Russia's renewed espionage push against the West
Happy Thursday! James Madison secured the Sun Belt championship in men’s basketball this week and has punched its first ticket to the NCAA Tournament since I was freshman all the way back in the halcyon days of 2012-2013. The Dukes have had quite a run athletically in the past few years and look to continue their national breakout in this year’s dance. Go Dukes.
Now that we have the good news out of the way let’s get to this week’s screening. Today I have a depressing pair of videos that dive into the ongoing civil war in Sudan and Russia’s ongoing intelligence operations against us.
Deutsche Welle: Stories of survival in Sudan
My heart aches for the people of Sudan. War has been devouring the southern Nile nation for almost a year now, displacing millions and killing a further unknowable number of innocent Sudanese civilians. War rape is now a daily fact of life. Malign actors are using the chaos as a smokescreen to carry out a genuine ethnic cleansing. Germany’s Deutsche Welle was able to smuggle a journalist into Sudan to speak to the victims of this senseless civil war that the majority of the West pretends isn’t happening and you owe it to yourself not to look away:
Voice of America: Russia Steps Up Spy War on West
It continues to blow my mind that a large sector of Western society doesn’t understand that Russia isn’t just at war with Ukraine—Russia is at war with us. Between the hybrid warfare in the form of weaponized migration, information warfare like the late Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Internet Research Agency conducts, or the assassinations they carry out on western soil, Russia is very much carrying out a full-throated assault on liberal Western society. Voice of America has a great short recent explainer on the Kremlin’s recent espionage operations against us:
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