Egypt to expand Russia cooperation after fall out with US - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Egypt will expand cooperation with Russia in the wake of a diplomatic spat with long-time ally the United States following president Mohamed Morsi's overthrow, Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said Saturday. The foreign minister, in a interview with AFP, was speaking ahead of a visit on Wednesday by Russia's defence and foreign ministers to discuss arms sales and political relations. Fahmy said strained relations with Washington, which suspended some of its massive military aid to Cairo after the army toppled Morsi amid mass protests against him, had improved with Secretary of State John Kerry's visit last Sunday. But Egypt is taking a more "independent" tack and broadening its choices, he said. "Independence is having choices. So the objective of this foreign policy is to provide Egypt with choices, more choices. So I'm not going to substitute. I'm going to add," he said. "I see this as a beginning of a new phase," he said. Kerry's visit "left better sentiments here in Egypt," Fahmy said of the visit just a day before Morsi went on trial for inciting the killings of protesters. "It does not mean everything has been resolved. It does not mean there won't be hiccups in the relationship in the future," Fahmy said, speaking in his office on the banks of the Nile River. Egypt had close ties with Russia until several years before president Anwar Sadat made peace with Israel in 1979, bringing in roughly $1.3 billion in yearly US military aid over the subsequent decades. Turning to domestic issues, Fahmy said the deadly tumult that swept Egypt after the Morsi's overthrow in July had decreased, but "it will take time for it to subside completely."[/QUOTE] [URL="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/86027/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-to-expand-Russia-cooperation-after-fall-out-.aspx"]source[/URL]

Betcha Russia fucking THREW themselves on this offer.

Worth point out that a major part of the reason for cutting military aid to them wasn't just because they threw out Morsi, but because they became a military junta that was just as bad as Morsi if not worse, killing protesters in the streets. Which is a pretty good reason to not give aid to a country. If only that were applied to certain other countries in the region as well.

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;42811214]Worth point out that a major part of the reason for cutting military aid to them wasn't just because they threw out Morsi, but because they became a military junta that was just as bad as Morsi if not worse, killing protesters in the streets. Which is a pretty good reason to not give aid to a country. If only that were applied to certain other countries in the region as well.[/QUOTE] The funniest thing about the whole thing is the crap that Mubarak has been saying since he's been released from prison. He was going on about how an Israeli PM wanted to make a deal with him and deport all the Palestinians to die in the deserts of the Peninsula border shared by Israel and Egypt.

Man the U.S is really hated right now

[QUOTE=007JamesBond007;42811680]Man the U.S is really hated right now[/QUOTE]Frankly, things really haven't changed all that much, its just that nations are trying to use current events as leverage in dealings with the U.S. People grossly overestimate how serious things are in international politics.

This is getting ridiculous. Putin is legitimately establishing the Soviet Union again or something similar. Russia has been strengthening its ties in Eastern Europe and Asia, and now it is gaining another important foothold in North Africa/Middle East. All this at a time when the EU is at its weakest, and the US is hated nearly-worldwide.

[QUOTE=Wafflemonstr;42812075]This is getting ridiculous. Putin is legitimately establishing the Soviet Union again or something similar. Russia has been strengthening its ties in Eastern Europe and Asia, and now it is gaining another important foothold in North Africa/Middle East. All this at a time when the EU is at its weakest, and the US is hated nearly-worldwide.[/QUOTE] How is that ridiculous? It's how diplomatic relations work.

[QUOTE=Stopper;42812332]How is that ridiculous? It's how diplomatic relations work.[/QUOTE] I probably should have used the word 'dangerous' rather than 'ridiculous' but my point still stands.

[QUOTE=Wafflemonstr;42812075]This is getting ridiculous. Putin is legitimately establishing the Soviet Union again or something similar. Russia has been strengthening its ties in Eastern Europe and Asia, and now it is gaining another important foothold in North Africa/Middle East. All this at a time when the EU is at its weakest, and the US is hated nearly-worldwide.[/QUOTE] putin doesn't want to "recreate" the soviet union, they just want to become a superpower again(what country doesn't want to become one?). there is nothing ridiculous about it.

[QUOTE=Wizards Court;42813573]putin doesn't want to "recreate" the soviet union, they just want to become a superpower again(what country doesn't want to become one?). there is nothing ridiculous about it.[/QUOTE] Iceland. Shit, they don't even have a military.

Sadat made such hard work toward escaping the Russian yoke of influence just for it to be undone now.

[QUOTE=Medevila;42815434] ~Eurasian Union~[/QUOTE] Don't even try to pretend that having two of the largest and most powerful countries on the planet, China and Russia, as well as a host of number of smaller countries, all under one alliance/union, isn't extremely dangerous to the balance of the world. I am all for regions of the world uniting, ala Germany uniting under Bismark, Greece under Alexander, the Middle East under their many different empires, etc, but this is something entirely different.