Based on the recent “Middle Nation Regions Briefing: South Africa”

If South Africa’s justice system is being cleaned from the bottom up, but foreign and political influence at the top stays untouched; is that real reform, or managed control?

Explain your briefings-based understanding in 1 paragraph

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In any conflict, you have to look at at least 4 things:
-- What is happening
-- What is likely to happen
-- What should happen
-- What are the narratives about what is happening and what should happen (and why this narratives are being pushed)

You can look at Sudan, for example.

What IS happening:
An internal conflict between two local power players — the SAF and the RSF; with external players taking sides in this power struggle.

What is likely to happen:
A de-facto partitioning of Sudan, with the RSF becoming a regional authority in Darfur and adjacent areas, a negotiated autonomy that falls short of official secession.

What SHOULD happen:
The RSF should be completely eliminated; defeated, disarmed, and punished for crimes against humanity.

What the narratives are saying:
The RSF is a proxy militia of the UAE committing genocide in Sudan mostly for the sake of extracting gold; it is a form of Arab colonization against Africans. The UAE, therefore, should be boycotted and vilified by the international community.

Thus, you can see, quite transparently, that this narrative is not aimed at resolving the conflict in Sudan; it is aimed at attacking the UAE, which has been a leading force behind the regional plan for the Middle East, and has increasingly aligned itself with China and Russia and the Anational OCGFC, and largely detached itself from the political faction of the Neocons in Washington.
By framing the UAE's role in Sudan (which is highly exaggerated and misrepresented), the narrative also seeks to undermine the building of collective sovereignty across the Muslim lands of the Middle East and North Africa by depicting this as neocolonialism or imperialism; and by injecting the Arab VS African racial element into the scenario.
This narrative is being pushed with greater vigour now, following the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, as colonizer activists in the West and Muslim diaspora find themselves in need of a new cause to use as a vehicle for taqwa-signalling; and as the Neocons feel themselves rapidly losing control over the region's future.

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You know what I find odd and interesting? In the US, you always hear about these doomsday cults, these weird (usually) Christian sects that form around some dude calling himself a prophet or what have you. They pool their money, buy land, build compounds, and become literally economically self-sufficient, sometimes with enterprises with revenues into the millions.

But people will not do this just for the sake of doing it. Coming together as a community, pooling resources, starting farms or businesses, and becoming completely autonomous economic ecosystems. They won't do it just because it makes sense to do it. Even though you see plenty examples of these loopy cults doing it. Like, you NEED some weird fanatical woo-woo rationale for doing something that is objectively positive and beneficial for you. It always has to be built around wack-a-doo beliefs, and include twisted practices, abuse, and cult leader tyranny.

It is utterly bizarre.

Imagine the following scenario:

WhatsApp family forward of a viral infographic claiming that "UAE is stealing Sudan’s gold into state coffers", or "proving" that UAE control the RSF.

Based on the video "Sudan, RSF & the UAE: Exposing the Colonizer-Activism Playbook" provide your response (3–6 sentences) using the Middle Nation framework.


Possible hints from the video: evidence vs algorithmic narrative, flag wedge tactic, "region awash in weapons" and RSF origins (Janjaweed/Bashir), legal trade/ports/farmland vs smuggling anecdotes, ICJ lack of jurisdiction/evidence, Western intervention, the realpolitik outcome (RSF as long-standing actor, negotiation/partition).

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In the video "Shahid Bolsen on the Election of Zohran Mamdani"

a) What is Shahid's explanation for why rival party narratives around the NYC election move in sync, and how does that shape (and/or limit) what the public is allowed to debate?

b) Try to rebuild the power map described for New York: which players or actors sit above the mayor in real decision‑making, what does that imply about what a mayor can actually do versus what (or who) they front for?

c) Why does Shahid treat the election as a symptom of a deeper racial/power dynamic rather than a win over it? What outcomes can we expect from that "diagnosis"?

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Let me just say, unrelated to any of the ongoing topics; you need to know that whenever you hear people in the US saying things like "people are starting to wake up..." or any variation of this sentiment; no. People are not 'waking up'. What you are interpreting as an awakening is just another trend. Literally like saying that someone woke up just because they turned over in their sleep.

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