Posted on 04/29/2023 8:26:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The United States finally began evacuation operations for American citizens trapped in war-torn Sudan late Friday. A convoy left Khartoum on a long journey to safety. Armed drones are reported to have monitored its progress.
Two rival generals are battling it out for power and the country is in chaos. The United States evacuated its staff at the U.S. embassy and closed it down. There were words of disapproval of the escalating violence in the country – Joe Biden called the violence “unconscionable” and thanked the U.S. troops who evacuated the American staffers from Sudan. This left thousands of American citizens, many of whom are dual citizens, stranded in the country without an American embassy to help secure a way out to safety. Flashbacks to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan came to mind. The message sent by Team Biden to Americans looking for assistance was that they were on their own.
A common criticism was that the embassy should have remained open, at least long enough to get those Americans who wanted to leave out of the country. The appearance was that the embassy staff was rescued at the expense of American citizens living and working in Sudan. Not a good look, to be sure. Why weren’t the Americans being evacuated? Other countries were getting their people out of there. The U.K., for example, got to work evacuating its citizens
The Biden administration has a very bad habit of cutting and running when American lives are on the line. To be blunt, it is a dereliction of duty. The commander-in-chief is responsible for keeping Americans safe and that includes doing what he can for those overseas. If Joe Biden wants to talk “unconscionable”, he needs to look no further than his withdrawal from Afghanistan. There are still Americans left behind there who are trying to get out. America used to have a motto – leave no man behind. Whatever happened to that? It’s vanished in Biden’s America.
The temporary ceasefire has not been held. A Sudanese-American doctor was stabbed to death as he took his father to the doctor. He was the second American death.
The death of Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman, a Sudanese-American father-of-four, was announced by the Sudanese American Medical Association.
He was in the capital Khartoum with his wife and two young children while caring for his parents and providing frontline medical help during the armed clashes.
He died from stab wounds after being attacked as he escorted his father to a medical appointment during a tentative ceasefire.
Earlier an American doctor has been identified as the second U.S. citizen to have died in fierce fighting that has rocked the African nation of Sudan.
‘He was someone who believed in Sudan,’ his friend and colleague Dr. Yasir Elamin told the BBC World Service.
‘He spent a significant amount of his time educating the next generation of Sudanese doctors. He was very charismatic … everybody loved him.’
The American effort is getting underway as other countries are ending their evacuation operations. Joe Biden leads from behind. The U.K.’s evacuation efforts have gone well enough that a lack of demand allows them to end evacuation flights within the next 24 hours. A State Department spokesman said several hundred U.S. citizens have left Sudan by land, sea, or air. Officials helped Americans get seats on flights operated by allies. The question is why is this taking so long? Sudan has been a hotbed for years. Isn’t there consistent monitoring of the situation on the ground? Why wasn’t there a plan in place that could be executed immediately when it became clear that it was time to evacuate?
The White House press secretary advised American citizens to get out now if they want to leave. Easy for her to say.
And Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the United States had deployed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets to support air and land evacuation routes, which Americans were using.
‘This is a dynamic environment, and any option entails a degree of risk,’ she said Thursday.
‘But because the situation is unlikely to improve, we encourage Americans who want to leave to take advantage of the options that are available to them in the next 24 to 48 hours.’
So, late on Friday, a convoy of buses with about 300 Americans left Sudan. The plan was to make a 525-mile trip to the Red Sea. It was the first organized effort to evacuate private citizens. Would the Biden administration have made this effort if it had not come under criticism for leaving thousands of Americans behind while closing the embassy? That’s a question without an answer right now. Biden is up for re-election and his actions are suspect. For a man who touts his foreign policy cred, he remains hands-off when it comes to international affairs and protecting American lives.
Oh dear, those peaceful indigenous peoples are at it again.
RE: Biden keeps hands off for foreign policy.....
Is he even aware of anything outside his little bubble with Jill, cue cards, teleprompters and papers handed to him to just sign without reading them? Not to mention ice cream and Depends changes.
But Kamala is waiting if he leaves so we’d better not complain too much.
The insiders are preparing for the Biden free and Kamala free 2024 election when the time for them to go is exactly right.
Whether in Ukraine or Sudan, Death Follows Victoria Nuland Wherever She Goes
4/26/23
“Victoria Nuland was known as the midwife of Maidan – the Obama-Biden point person reportedly running the overthrow of the Ukrainian Presidency in 2013-14.
Ukraine 2014 Coup d’état
After violent events associated with the Maidan revolution protests, Ukraine’s parliament ousted President Viktor Yanukovich in February 2014 and replaced him with Petro Poroshenko. Disposed Yanukovich was an existential threat because his amicable relations with Russia impeded Ukraine from becoming a European member and NATO from expanding to Russia’s border. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, the midwife of Maidan, threatened sanctions against Ukraine’s government if President Viktor Yanukovych remained in office. (Over 100 people were killed in the protests.)
The Obama-Biden Administration helped create instability in Ukraine, leading to a Mafia-like climate where potential Russian aggression leads to Ukraine demanding protection. Protection money is easily extorted, benefiting Hunter Biden and indirectly Joe Biden.
After the coup, the US installed leaders and the Biden’s began moving money from Ukrain to the family coffers. ...
We now know that Nuland visited Sudan recently to encourage the country not to align with Russia.
Timeline of events in Sudan (at link).
What is happening in Sudan?
– Russia agrees with Sudan on the construction of a naval base.
– Biden talks Sudan out of the deal. Biden allocates $288 million to Sudan.
– Victoria Nuland is coming to Sudan. A month later, war begins in Sudan.
— Djole 🇷🇸 (@onlydjole) April 25, 2023
Someone should have told Sudan about Victoria Nuland. Death follows her. ...”
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Before Obama, the incompetence Biden has demonstrated in Afghanistan and Sudan would never be acceptable by either party or the news.
> Joe Biden called the violence “unconscionable” <
Aw, come on man. There’s not one chance in a hundred that Biden knows what that word means. So who’s fooling who here?
White House warns American citizens not to count on evacuation from Sudan April 21, 2023
An estimated 16,000 US nationals are still in the war-torn country.
I saw a short report on an American couple that got out on their own. Harrowing journey. I was shocked the news anchor (I think it was NBC tonight) used the word “finally” to describe the fact that the Biden Junta is now supposedly helping to evacuate Americans.
Not much better late than never, but still better.
Let’s go Brandon.
Can they stop in Afghanistan on the way back and pick up a few more?
How frightening for the Americans who are stuck there, with no means of departure.
I wonder, are there many American Christian missionaries there?
May God help them all to get out soon!
It’s difficult to feel sorry for people left behind in Suden when they knew full well that Biden leaves people behind...
If they had more diversity in Sudan, this wouldn’t have happened. Without diversity, they aren’t strong. Any American school kid can tell you that.
Call me stupid, but why are thousands of Americans living in that war torn hellhole?
I’ve never had the slightest desire to go to Sudan.
16,000 Americans will take awhile at Biden’s ‘rate of return”.
“A common criticism was that the embassy should have remained open, at least long enough to get those Americans who wanted to leave out of the country.”
“The White House press secretary advised American citizens to get out now if they want to leave.”
That sounds extremely similar to comments made with Afghanistan. All those who didn’t ‘want to’ to get out must be content where they are I guess. What a POS.
“It’s difficult to feel sorry for people left behind in Suden when they knew full well that Biden leaves people behind...”
That’s a good point. It will probably apply to all US folks when the biden regime finalizes it’s demolition.
Democrats cannot see that there is a much better candidate already on stage and he Carrie’s 100% name recognition RFK Jr. All he needs is to announce Tulsi Gabbords as his running mate and that would be a formidable ticket.
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