The UK government owns part of the supply system of the Sudan genocide it claims to oppose and now its all comng out. Right, so the UK hasn’t just been caught selling arms to the wrong people again - what’s come out now shows the British state is financially tied into the logistics of a genocidal war it claims to oppose. That’s the change. The cost of that isn’t optics, it’s that a whole set of excuses Britain has relied on for years no longer survive contact with reality. Once you’re invested in the infrastructure that keeps a war supplied, sanctions stop being pressure and start being theatre. From here on, the claim that responsibility ends at export licences doesn’t hold, and neither does the idea that this is about oversight mistakes or bad paperwork. Because this setup didn’t happen by accident, it didn’t emerge overnight, and it certainly  ...