The Speech of a Defeat

Rashid Abdel Rahim

If there is any sane person who still affiliates with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and, having listened to Himedti’s speech yesterday, their right decision would be to immediately abandon RSF ranks.

This is not a speech by a leader, but rather a statement of a man filled with anger, hatred, and defeat. He has all roads blocked before him.
Yesterday Himedti reappeared without any reason or explanation and failed to raise a specific argument that would justify his speech. It was a speech of “Blablala: I told you, and you told me.”

The man remains trapped by his tongue, his utterances filled with insults and curses and vile language such as his saying, “You thief,” “You drunk,” and “You are not a Muslim.” The confusion is evident in his words.

He failed to offer his soldiers a vision or a plan, but rather told them, “Make decisions,” leaving them without support or promises, as he did when he had once issued warnings about a million soldiers entering the battlefield. He did not talk to his troops about their leaders who died or the positions they had lost. He did not find any space on the ground that he promised he would hold on to and not withdraw from, except for the Republican Palace and Al-Muqran area, as if he wanted to create an island for his forces within the multitudes of soldiers of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).

His promises contradicted the reality on the ground. While he claimed that the army had lost more than 70% of its aircraft, the Air Force was destroying the pillars of his forces and destroying RSF leaders in Nyala and its airport. He ignored earlier comments made by his deputy and brother, Abdel Rahim, that his presence in command was a mistake.

He has become a mere rubber stamp regarding decisions relative to his forces, going around the Nairobi Charter and offering no useful information about it, as if he had never heard of it. With international, regional, and national stands rejecting the RSF parallel government, requiring the leadership to address them, at least with a sense of concern for these major countries and entities.

This speech is a message to the countries supporting him, confirming that he is no longer fit to lead and no longer possesses a reliable force.
This speech shamed his soldiers and followers, who expressed no celebration or interest in it, and neither the media nor the field leadership commented on it with any comment, if any.

Yesterday was the day Himedti announced and acknowledged his own and the Rapid Support Forces’ demise.

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