Hosting a conference that excludes Sudan's warring parties and ignores Khartoum's objections isn't diplomacy — it's theater, just like the failed London and Paris summits before it. Humanitarian funding sits at just 16% of what's needed, yet peace remains impossible while external actors keep fueling both sides of the conflict. No pledge total fixes a war that external meddling sustains, and without stopping the fighting, Sudan's economy loses tens of billions for decades.