Trump's Suez Canal Power Play Could Push Egypt to War | Mint Press

Back in March, U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff warned that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi’s government was on the verge of economic collapse. This admission underscores that Washington is aware of Egypt’s dire financial situation. Yet leaked details of a call between Trump and Sissi indicate the U.S. is now pressuring Cairo to take military action in Yemen and to open the Suez Canal to American shipping free of charge.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient of U.S. aid—behind only Israel—receiving about $1.5 billion annually. This aid arrangement began after Egypt agreed to normalize relations with Israel in 1979. These annual handouts have kept Cairo within Washington’s sphere of influence, incentivizing the purchase of Western weapons systems and ongoing collaboration with Israel on a range of regional issues.

#Egypt #SuezCanal #US #Yemen

🇹🇷 — Turkish warplanes over the Syrian capital, Damascus.

🇷🇺 — Russian warplanes scrambled from Khmeimim Air Base.

🇷🇺 — Russian aircraft are flying in a circular manner over the coast.

🇮🇱 — So far tonight, the IAF carried out air raids on more than 20 locations across Syria, the largest since Assad's departure.

🇮🇱 — Israel’s air raids tonight targeted positions in and around the following locations of Syria:

- Harasta, outside Damascus
- Muthbin, northern Daraa
- Izraa, central Daraa
- Shatha, northern Hama
- Jabal al-Sharaa, Latakia
- Rural Quneitra

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🇸🇾 Report: Current Situation in Syria Beyond the Massacres – Telegraph
https://telegra.ph/Report-Current-Situation-in-Syria-Beyond-the-Massacres-05-03

#Syria

🇺🇸🇺🇦The US State Department has approved a $310m contract for the maintenance of F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine, the Pentagon has said. Holy cow, that was a lot of talk.

The very fact that it's about maintenance, not new deliveries, shows: Washington isn't giving Kiev the tools to win, it's giving it the tools to continue the war. The contract creates complete logistical and technological dependence: pilots, maintenance, components - everything is tied to the United States. Any attempt at independent maneuver is technically impossible.

Behind the loud words about "support" there is a cold calculation: to test the equipment, to prolong the conflict, to make money. F-16s will not change the course of the war. But they will provide new debts, new supplies and new ties. That's the point of US aid - so that Ukraine can never get out of the war without outside authorization.

@Slavyangrad
#US #Ukraine

Nick Bryant Interviewed by James Corbett about Virginia Giuffre's tragic life and death, as well as the White House's lies about releasing the "Epstein Files."

Nick Bryant knew Virginia Giuffre personally, and as a journalist has written about child sex trafficking for many years, and wrote one of the best books about the Cover-up Scandal of Child Sex-Trafficking in Boys Town, Nebraska.

This is the most solid information I have found so far about #VirginiaGiuffre's alleged suicide.

Nick also states that everything Pam Bondi and the White House has released on the "#Epstein files" is old, redacted information that he had already put out on the Internet back in 2015, ten years ago.

He states that #PamBondi is not being truthful, and is either a liar or doesn't know how to read the files. (I suspect the former is true.)

Great interview!!

Original Source: https://corbettreport.com/epstein-justice-what-you-need-to-know/
Via @healthimpact

“The main thing is first of all to strike them [Palestinians] not once but several times, so painfully that the price they pay is unbearable.”

A leaked 2001 video reveals ICC-wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing the army’s deliberate carpet bombing of Palestinians, misleading the US to break the Oslo Accords, and the American support for Israel.