Press TV has conducted an interview with Douglas Degroot, with the Executive Intelligence Review, to further discuss the issue.
The following is a transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Mr. Degroot, how do you think the situation will play out with regards to the threats by the UN Security Council?
Degroot: I want to emphasis first that this particular resolution did not include sanctions because Russia and China would not have voted for it if it did. They threatened sanctions but that would take another resolution later, and I don’t think…report that.
Otherwise, the roadmap idea is an African Union (AU) idea. They had called for some approach that both sides cease military activities and engage in talks and so on that in three months time would lead to a settlement of all these outstanding issues. As far as that goes, that’s the right approach.
I must emphasis that there are forces involved in the global financial empire that the British and the United States – the Obama administration – are pushing now. [They] don’t want any resolution of this thing, in fact. They’re just itching for the chance, they want the chance to have sanctions and make things more difficult to resolve in what’s already a difficult situation because it involves splitting up the country and so on.
It’s a very difficult issue. Sanctions, as you know from Iran’s own personal experience, only makes things more difficult. It’s never going to solve anything at all.
The forces who are pushing this idea, the IMF, their vehicle for controlling the world — the International Monetary Fund is bankrupt and they don’t want any nations around that could pull together the peace, to get together and create an alternative after that collapse becomes evident. That’s why you also have these attacks on Syria and Iran now.
I think the long term approach that these forces want is to have perpetual conflict in Sudan so that north Sudan will get divided up further and it’ll get ultimately end up a permanent warfare situation which could lead to something as bad as the situation in Somalia.
Press TV: Mr. Degroot, how much do you think the two sides, Sudan and South Sudan, will listen and end their hostilities?
Degroot: Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, is the Chief Mediator of the AU and he’s pushing very hard on this approach.
You have to realize now that the people outside the financial empire that doesn’t want this thing resolved are going to try and manipulate both sides so that the conflict does not get resolved.
I can’t say exactly how it’s going to work. I do know that South Sudan has already announced that they will cease military activities and pull out the troops they had in the north…
Press TV: Why do you think that the West is pushing for the conflict to be maintained there?
Degroot: They don’t want strong nation-states anywhere in the world. It’s like why do they attack Iran or why do they attack Syria? They don’t want any nation-states around once this IMF system collapses because those nations then would link up with other nations like Russia and China and make a new system, probably.
That’s why they keep pushing this thing. You have similar situations in West Africa with the Boko Haram in Nigeria and so on; they’re weakening all the big nations or trying to.
In this case, they’re trying to use long-standing problems that have existed between the north and the south which have existed going way back into the British colonial period.
They’re exacerbating all these differences and issues to try and make a permanent conflict out of this thing and ruin the chances for Sudan of ever giving its southern agricultural potential developed which would benefit the whole region.
Look at it as being a country that’s between two big countries: Egypt and Ethiopia. They’re the second and third biggest countries in Africa now and this area can be destabilized and it’s going to be difficult for these other nations to progress either.
GMA/JR
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