UAE Plane Shot Down in Muslim Sudan: Russian Crew Among The Dead | BRICS Summit in Islamic Kazan

💭 Mystery of downed airplane in Sudan deepens as Kyrgyzstan insists aircraft had been de-registered

The mystery surrounding a crashed cargo plane in Sudan purportedly downed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces deepened Tuesday as authorities insisted the aircraft had been de-registered in Kyrgyzstan.

Just who was flying the Ilyushin Il-76 at night over war-torn Darfur remains in question. The aircraft previously was linked to an effort by the United Arab Emirates to arm the paramilitary force known as the RSF, something the UAE has strenuously denied despite evidence to the contrary.

But the plane’s crash early Monday highlights the chaos gripping Sudan since April 2023, when the RSF and Sudan’s military went to war. Their conflict has killed over 24,000 people, forced millions to flee their homes and has left some families eating grass in a desperate attempt to survive as famine sweeps parts of the country.

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BRICS Five New Members (Ezekiel 38/Psalm 83):

• UAE
• IRAN
• SAUDI ARABIA
• EGYPT
• ETHIOPIA

☆ Western and Eastern ally and CIA agent, genocidal Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia is there. (mind-blowing, isn't it??
☆ Genocide enabler UN Secretary-General António Guterres is in Ethiopia to congratulate African genociders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – and he is expected to travel to Kazan, Russia to meet genocidal Ahmed and co. again.

💭 While the finance ministers and central bank governors are meeting in Washington this week for the traditional autumn meeting of the IMF and World Bank, a different kind of summit is taking place in Russia at the same time. From 22-24 October, it is the turn of President Vladimir Putin to host the 16th BRICS summit. A total of 32 foreign delegations from all over the world are expected to attend, 24 of them at the level of heads of state and government, including all of the nine BRICS members to date, as well as numerous other countries interested in membership, including with Turkey for the first time a NATO member state. It has not yet been confirmed whether UN Secretary-General António Guterres will also accept the Russian invitation to attend the summit. The summit was preceded by over 200 meetings and events over the course of 2024, which were organised by the Russian Presidency.
Kazan as a summit venue with dubious symbolic power

Putin is hosting the summit in Kazan, the capital of the Muslim-dominated republic of Tatarstan. The choice of location was intended as a symbolic sign of Russia's anti-imperial orientation and solidarity with the ‘Global South’ against the Western colonial powers. The irony, however, is that Russia itself conquered most of its territory through the colonisation of Siberia, the Caucasus and Central Asia and the Tatars were one of the first peoples to be subjugated. To this day, they, like all other national minorities in the Russian Federation, are centrally controlled and dominated from Moscow.
Admission of new members in Kazan unlikely
In any case, the integration of the four countries newly admitted since the beginning of 2024 (Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates) does not appear to be progressing smoothly due to heterogeneous political and economic interests. In addition, Saudi Arabia is still considering officially joining BRICS and will only be represented in Kazan at foreign minister level.