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March 18, 2022

The War in Ukraine Presents an Opportunity to Drive a Wedge between Egypt and Russia

Cairo needs the West even more than it needs the Kremlin.

Since 1979, Egypt has been a close ally of both Syria and the U.S, but, from the Obama administration on, Washington has sent Cairo mixed messages. That fact, combined with overlapping interests in Libya and Syria, has led President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to look increasingly to Russia. Ramy Aziz argues that the G7—the U.S., Japan, Canada, and the major European countries—can use the present situation in Ukraine to bring Egypt squarely back into their camp:

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