I’ll tell you the geopolitical game behind Europe’s $8 billion bribe to Egypt.

Why and for what reason did Europe do this?

I want you to open up a map. Then I want you to look at two positions.

1. The position of Egypt.
2. The position of Europe.

Then I want you to come to a conclusion where each stand on the map and if the conclusion you’ve reached is the same as mine.

Egypt is in the underbelly of Europe.

Then you’ve reached the right conclusion my friend. Because for Europe, Egypt is a lifeline that they cannot allow to go into chaos.

Egypt’s significant value stems from the Suez Canal and its strategic location as a focal point into Africa and Europe. Historically, Egypt has always been a very important strategic location because it connects 3 regions together and many empires have come and gone from Egypt.

But it’s not a history lesson that I want to tell you today. It’s the effects of $8 Billion that the EU gave to Egypt and the purpose of it.

Some people, well actually, a lot of people think that the EU gave $8 billion to Egypt because they wanted to keep the Palestinian refugees in Egypt and yeah that could be a partial factor but that’s not the important factor.

As Egypt controls the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest maritime routes, it facilitates the transport of goods between Europe and Asia. That’s just general knowledge.

Should let’s say a civil war breakout, it could disrupt traffic through the Canal, leading to delays and increased shipping costs for European businesses. This disruption could send global oil prices through the roof, given that a substantial portion of Europe’s oil supplies passes through the Suez Canal.

Currently right now Oil prices are increasing globally in Europe and America, thanks to the Houthis, they have already blocked off Israeli ships, attacking them as they pass by, now they’re shooting at American ships for attempting to help Israeli ships and if Europe sends its coalition to the Red Sea, they could also block and attack European ships.

Right now, Europe’s goods are being delayed, their prices increased. This has affected the general population extremely badly who are now facing increased cost of living prices.

And if a civil war occurs, then there’s a bigger issue of refugees. There is no roadblock in place for refugees to travel into Europe, there could be millions of them at Europe’s doorstep, plunging them into a crisis and we have already seen what the Libyan and Syrian refugee crisis has done.

Turkey is holding the majority of them, but Egypt doesn’t have any country holding them back, it would signal a massive migration issue the likes of which has never been seen before.

Now if Egypt breaks down internally under economic pressure and the government is sent home packing, then a new government could come into power that could possibly be more anti-Europe.

Hardliners could take up seats in power, where they could control the Suez Canal and use that to blackmail Europe.

But another scenario could be that extremists’ outfits could come into power in Egypt and they’d be able to export that extremism abroad without any blockers.

And let’s not forget that if Egypt goes down then so do the majority of the middle eastern countries within the region.

But why am I talking so much about the civil war?

Well, the situation in Egypt is tense. Unemployment is sky high; the general public is angry with how the government is run and they’re angry with Sisi. Add in a genocide happening next door and the government isn’t doing anything, will make a lot of people very angry at the government.

Sisi, is unpopular, because he hasn’t been able to improve the economy in the last 10 years and because of the economy and air of helplessness towards Gaza, there are creaks appearing in the system which tells the average international observer that the dam is about to break. We’ll be facing an Arab Spring 2.0.

This money and also UAE’s money is basically stalling for the future, it doesn’t fix the existing system, because a large portion of that money is going to go to the pockets of some very powerful people and maybe a small amount will be spent on the general public to patch up the large holes in the system.

They’re delaying the inevitable for what’s about to come with money and they will keep throwing money and delaying it because they don’t have a way to fix the issue.

The current system in Egypt, the military dictatorship serves them as it is, but to continue serving them, on occasion, when it’s about to fall they need to send some money to stop it from falling immediately.

However, the dam will burst eventually, and Gaza is going to make the damn burst in Egypt eventually.

Thanks for reading.