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2020-05-10 Africa North

Washington approves $2.3 billion attack helicopter deal with Egypt

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 For more than twenty years following the 1978 Camp David Accords to keep peace between antagonists the aid to Israel totalled $3 billion per year ($1.8 billion for military, $1.2 billion for economic), and to Egypt, $2.1 billion per year ($1.3 billion for military, $815 million for economic). If these payments have ceased it has never been publicized.

Posted by b 2020-05-10 10:51|| 2020-05-10 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Would this be the state department under the Obama regime which helped stage the coup in Egypt and use NGOs to install a dedicated member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who immediately went about saber rattling?

But not so incompetent to say enough of this, kick out the MoBro, and successfully install Sissi for how many years now of relative stability?

State Department Human Rights under Obama, gettautahere with that.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-10 12:47|| 2020-05-10 12:47|| Front Page Top

#3 swksvolFF: I don't know what in Hell you are trying to say. Take a deep breath. Gather your thoughts (if you have any), and then respond.

Posted by b 2020-05-10 14:02|| 2020-05-10 14:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Wiki is your friend b. In addition to those cliff notes:

US involvement in campaigning for Morsi is well documented, to the point US NGOs were arrested for campaign meddling.

Morsi started shaking chains at Israel, as well as backing Paleo causes and rhetoric.

Morsi threatened to attack Ethiopia.

Morsi, Egypt, was the keystone to a pan-regional uprising from Syria to Morocco, south to at least Sudan but I include what would be al-shabob. The movement received support in Syria as McCain's Friends. It received support in Libya with NATO attacks against Quadaffy forces after the insurrection started getting its ass kicked. Never really took Algeria west on account of that. South, it faltered so now we have North Sudan and South Sudan. Syria, Assad was down for the count before Iran/Russia stepped in.

The idea being Egypt and Syria and Paleo, add a like minded Erdogon, putting pressure on Jordan to at least be neutral in pressuring Israel into a two state solution, with heavy election influencing in Israel - even bragging about sending the Obama Election A-Team to help out.

So all that is going on, Morsi is trying to purge the military and generally pissing the establishment off, when shortly after War with Ethiopia! enough had had enough.

Enter Sissi. Stabilized Egypt society (remember the riots?), co-op with Israel to stop gun running in from Sinai into Paleo - how many Egyptian Army Units were killed in ambushes doing so? To the point Sissi was like, Time for a Wall.

So when some Obama era state department knob warmer criticizes the Egyptian Armed Forces, I laugh.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-10 14:44|| 2020-05-10 14:44|| Front Page Top

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