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11/21/2015
A strategy document, seen by MEE, spells out Mohammed bin Zayeds frustration with Sisi
A top-secret strategy document prepared for Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan reveals that the United Arab Emirates is losing faith in the ability of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to serve the Gulf states interests.
The document, prepared by one of Bin Zayeds team and dated 12 October, contains two key quotes which describe the frustration bin Zayed feels about Sisi, whose military coup the Crown Prince bankrolled, pouring in billions of dollars along with Saudi Arabia. It says: This guy needs to know that I am not an ATM machine. Further on, it also reveals the political price the Emiratis will exact if they continue to fund Egypt.
Future strategy should be based on not just attempting to influence the government in Egypt but to control it. It is summarised thus: Now I will give but under my conditions. If I give, I rule.
Egypt, which has recently tried to stem a run on the Egyptian pound, is heavily dependent on cash from the Emirates, which have become the largest foreign direct investor. At an economic conference in Sharm el-Sheikh in March, the prime minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, revealed the UAE had already given Egypt $13.9bn and he pledged $3.9bn more. The real amount of aid Sisi got from the Emiratis is thought by analysts to be closer to $25bn, around half of the total Gulf aid to Egypt.
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CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)and sunni militants, and some support both.
It's also kind of weird that our major allies in "spreading democracy" are islamist monarchies ruled by sharia law who are supporting islamist militants in order to spread the aforementioned liberal democracy.
It's also obvious that if sunni fundamentalism spreads across North Africa and the Middle East, then Europe and Central Asia will be next. We're talking about deep pockets here.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)The petrodollar...is it our dollar or their dollar?
It seems that they're using it to pursue their own aims, as they get richer and richer and we get weaker and weaker.
Is it worth destroying our own civilization just to keep the this system going?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)then the West has a harder time not accepting the results. They had a chance under the
MB, now it's much worse again with Sisi, for many reasons. What develops from their
desires and their determination is anyones guess but if anything changes for the better
it won't be from the leaders involved..at least I don't see it thus far.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)was because they didn't control the military.
The military are based more on a secular regime, they didn't want to work for the islamists.
Now I see the installation of the MB as part of the whole strategy to spread sunni islamism across the whole region to give the oil monarchies more power.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)more clarity for me which involved the left in Egypt recognizing their mistakes
which left them with Sisi.
These OP's were written directly from the young Egyptian activists themselves.
If I can dig them up, I will post it for you.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)but not their own?
Because it was never about spreading democracy, it was about spreading islamism.
And if Assad is toppled or steps aside, sunni islamism will take over and continue to spread and grow.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)how the left side of the spectrum admitted to their mistakes after MB won
the election and how their role made it worse. Their intentions were not
to do so, but nevertheless it came to be.
If I find it, I will post it..I found it to add clarity and that in the end
they'll be the ones to determine their future, albeit with greater
sacrifice than the last time around.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Friday, January 10, 2014
A Military Constitution
http://baheyya.blogspot.gr/2014/01/a-military-constitution.html
bemildred
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That illuminates certain dark corners of the mess.
Money is a weapon, or so the Prince thinks.