Russia and the United States will fight for Egypt?
According to the most recent data, purchased tours in Egypt are canceled today about 90% of tourists. Basically these are the citizens of Russia, whose departure was scheduled for later dates. Reports about it Julia Krivoshapko ("Russian newspaper") with reference to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia.
The number of victims of mass riots in the country in recent days is approaching 800, recently reported Interfax.
According to the Egyptian Interior Ministry, the police arrested more than a thousand Islamists - supporters of Mursi. Of these, 558 people were arrested in Cairo. The government blames the death of citizens on the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Mursi himself emerged. According to media reports, Egyptian Acting Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi made a proposal to officially disband the Brothers.
As the RIA News" with reference to local media, the Egyptian authorities detained in the city of Giza and sent to prison the brother of the head of the Al-Qaida network Mohammed al-Zawahiri, one of the leaders of the Salafis. According to media reports, referring to the spokesman for the Egyptian penitentiary department, he was taken to the Tura prison, where, for example, they contain the sons of Mubarak. It is believed that az-Zawahiri sympathized with Mohammed Mursi.
Ivan Maximov ("Voice of Russia"), recalling that in half of the provinces of Egypt, the state of emergency and curfew were introduced, noted that Deputy Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Baradei resigned, and the unrest had already reached the resort area on the Sinai Peninsula. In Hurghada, the Islamists occupied the central square and attacked the police station and bus station.
To what end the Islamists are going to go, show the pogroms of the Coptic temples.
Alarming symptom calls Daria Tyukova ("MK") Islamist attacks on Coptic Christian churches - despite the fact that Egypt was considered a religiously tolerant country.
Over the past days, more than fifty old Coptic churches have been subjected to attacks. This was told by a native of Cairo, Bishop Angelos, now the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Great Britain. According to NBC News, the Church of the Resurrection near the valley of the pyramids at Giza and the Temple of the Archangel Michael near Cairo suffered the most. Everything is burned there, the statues are toppled to the floor. On the walls of the desecrated temples are graffiti calling for “Islamic Egypt!” And “Sisi is the murderer!” The attacks on the temples began just after the supporters of the overthrown Mursi were expelled from the Cairo camp. Chances are that the Islamists provoke the Copts to respond.
And above the main Christian temple of St. George in the city of Sohag the al-Qaida flag was raised ...
Nazanin Armanian in the material published on Publico.es (Spain; source of translation - "InoSMI") notes that 4 in August, the US Secretary of State proposed the candidacy of Robert Ford for the position of the new US ambassador to Egypt, and Arab social networks immediately replicated the call “NoToRobertFord”. The man proposed by John Kerry was called the “new patron of terrorism in Egypt”, “nightmare” and “shaitan”. It was he who in 2004, along with John Negroponte, created death squads in Iraq. Having collapsed this country, he moved to Syria - as an ambassador. In January, 2011, when he took office, acts of terror and anti-Assad government attacks began in the UAR. Of course, the Egyptians fear that Washington intends to apply the same technique to their country.
The author notes and the Egyptian phenomenon of "hawk" McCain. The senator met with the generals in Cairo twice: before and after the coup. It is curious that, meanwhile, Barack Obama sent Deputy Secretary of State William Burns to Cairo: he visited the arrested leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Washington is allocating a billion dollars to the Egyptian army for 1,3, but the same army will receive as many 12 billions from Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The money will go to fight the army with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia are the sworn enemies of the Brothers. According to the expert, if they achieve the entry of Egypt into the bloc, where Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan and Morocco are already involved, this will change the balance of power from the eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf.
Turkey will also get it: Erdogan will have to postpone the dream of exporting the Turkish model of Islamism. The Turkish Prime Minister, however, insured himself: he sent to prison dozens of military suspects of putschism. However, it faces a serious economic problem: around 250 Turkish companies have invested 2 billion dollars in Egypt.
But for Israel, unrest in Egypt is beneficial. Tel Aviv, the author notes, previously feared that the Muslim Brotherhood, entrenched in power, could break the Camp David Accords. Along with this, the Hamas movement weakened during the riots. In addition, the new emir of Qatar, Tamim al-Thani, dissociated himself from the Muslim Brotherhood and, most likely, would not finance Hamas.
Silently and unnoticed, Israel rebuilds its strategic environment, establishing influence from the Euphrates to the Nile. Along the way, he weakens US influence in this part of the world, where China and Russia are gradually strengthening their positions. ”
Now that is connected with Moscow. Russia, like America, did not condemn the coup in Egypt, the analyst notes. After all, the coup was directed against the Islamists. The Kremlin took advantage of the rise in oil prices, which jumped due to the threat to transport four million barrels a day through the Suez Canal. Comrade Putin was given the opportunity to play the role of arbitrator in the Egyptian conflict and restore the ties Moscow had with the Egyptian armed forces during the time of Gamal Abdel Nasser. The submission also notes that Russia made investments in the Egyptian oil and gas industry through LUKoil and Avatec.
Last year, Egypt received an offer of assistance and investment in the economy from China. China itself also needs the Suez Canal - for passage to the Mediterranean Sea, otherwise you will have to go around Africa.
The idea of rapprochement of ARE with China does not like the United States. Therefore, N. Armanyan concludes that Washington will not allow an independent Egypt, and even more so, turning it into a Chinese ally.
Returning to the topic of Moscow and Cairo, it should be noted that rumors about V. Putin’s visit to Egypt were recently published in the media. The source of information for the media was the publication on the Israeli resource DEBKAfile.
It was reported that the President of Russia 7 August can meet in Cairo with the Minister of Defense of Egypt Al-Sisi. This “visit” is allegedly connected with the well-known visit to Moscow of 31 of July by the head of the Saudi intelligence. Prince Bandar bin Sultan and conveyed to comrade Putin the request of King Abdullah to stay in Cairo. Perhaps we could talk about some kind of agreement with the Egyptian military. Saudi Arabia could finance, for example, Russian supplies weapons army of egypt. The Saudis would give the money for weapons.
Obviously, this would be part of the very 12 billions mentioned by N. Armagnan.
Ali al-Sharnobi writes about the strengthening of Russia in Egypt and, accordingly, the weakening of the United States (Canada Free Press; source of translation - Mixednews.ru).
The analyst notes that the Middle East has become more like a chessboard on which the game between the USA and Russia is being played.
If the US military bases spread throughout the Persian Gulf, the Arabian, Mediterranean, Red Seas and the Pacific Ocean, then Russia has only one base in Syria. At the same time, the Free Army of Syria, headed by the Muslim Brotherhood, collaborates with MI-6 and the CIA. But now a new chess game has begun in Egypt.
The author points out that the Obama administration is full of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, dissatisfied with the overthrow of the Islamists in Egypt. After all, "Brothers" for years funded and trained the CIA.
However, Barack Obama in politics is not a secret. The US administration, the author writes, "does not know where to direct its policy, looks confused and ignores the facts." US Ambassador to Egypt Ann Patterson lost her status, which was just the result of the blatant US bias in favor of the Brothers. The Egyptians believe that Obama does not understand what is happening. “The United States simply looks half-eyed and speak in a trembling voice,” the expert says ironically. “It seems Obama and his administration have put the wrong horse, and that makes them a target of sharp criticism both at home and abroad.”
But Russians are not asleep.
Further more. A spokesman for the provisional president of Egypt announced that the authorities were considering freezing diplomatic relations with the United States and closing their embassy in Cairo. Such harsh measures - payment for the intervention of Washington in the internal affairs of Egypt and the support of terrorist groups that threaten the national security of the country.
It’s time for Russia to establish its presence in Egypt. Putin is already working in this direction: he made it clear that Russia will block any resolution in the UN Security Council that the Western camp will try to hold.
China expressed a desire to stand in this matter next to Russia.
Ali al-Sharnobi believes that the United States and its allies will be the losers. They and their agents inside Egypt are now trying to draw the country into a civil war in order to impose Egypt's foreign intervention. The author also recalls that the Egyptians today view the policy of the American administration as an indulgence in murder and terror. People in Egypt recall that the Soviet Union helped the Egyptian army more than anyone and without compensation.
The heat of geopolitical passions around Egypt reached the point that Obama interrupted his vacation in order to pronounce the veiled panegyric "Muslim Brotherhood." The speech must have been written this time not by Obama's speechwriter, but dictated by the Islamist supporters in the administration.
Having said that the US cancels the joint military exercises scheduled for September, Obama said:
This paragraph needs light decoding.
“Human rights” are the rights of disadvantaged Islamists, languishing either under house arrest or in prisons. The fact that “the state of emergency must be abolished” sounds naturally like a pre-war slogan: in the country there are massacres, clashes, arsons, and Obama almost advises to switch to tolstovstvo. A state of emergency and a curfew are nothing more than tools to control the military situation. Cancellation will mean weakening the army and strengthening the "Brothers." The statement “all parties need the right to vote in the future of Egypt” is clearly addressed to the army, which should give freedom to the “Brothers” (they are about to be disbanded). The instructions on “transparent reform of the constitution and holding democratic elections of the parliament and the president” perfectly characterize the confusion of Obama and those behind him: after all, there were already reforms of the constitution and the holding of democratic elections in Egypt - and the person (Mursi) was chosen Obama and his then state secretary applauded.
Obama hastened to disown the fact that the White House is writing scripts for Egypt. “America cannot determine the future of Egypt,” said this dove of peace. “This is the work of the Egyptian people ...”
Well, then do not be surprised, Mr. President, that the Egyptian people turned their backs on you and their faces - the Russians. Egyptian people only doing their job. In addition, Cairo wants to get back the tourists from Moscow.
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