{"id":139890,"date":"2023-04-14T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139890"},"modified":"2023-04-12T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:55:55","slug":"egypt-our-ally-trying-to-sell-arms-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139890","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, our ally…trying to sell arms to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Probably our oldest, closest mideastern non-oil based ally would be Egypt. While not an especially close relationship a la Israel or Saudi Arabia, the Egyptians have generally been more or less on our side, right? Well, maybe not.<\/p>\n

A leaked US intelligence document blew the lid on secret arms negotiations between Egypt and Russia, where Egyptian President Abel Fattah El-Sisi planned to provide the Kremlin with tens of thousands of rockets.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post obtaines a series of classified files posted in February and March to the gaming platform Discord. One of the files detailed conversations between high-level Egyptian officials over the sale of weapons to Russia.<\/p>\n

In one document, Sisi (Egyptian President)\u00a0 instructs officials to keep the shipment and mass weapon production secret, “to avoid problems with the West.”<\/p>\n

The top secret document, dated February 17, features discussion from Egyptian officials about how to supply their Russian counterparts with gunpowder and artillery from Egyptian factories, per the Post.<\/p>\n

Egypt has been a longtime US ally, receiving over $1 billion in military aid annually, while also deepening relations with Moscow under El-Sisi’s rule, per the Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re talking 40,000 rockets here, not to mention an unspecified amount of ‘powder’.<\/p>\n

It seems the deal never came to fruition, which is a good thing. Maybe the same thing needs to happen to some of that $1,000,000,000 in foreign aid we send them annually as a reminder to play nice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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