How did it go from Gigachad Nasser getting back the Suez Channel from the bri’ish and massive trolling the US by getting an supposedly bribe from the US and using the money to build an big ass tower as an middle finger that cold be seen from the US ambassy, and now its just an shitty prussia from north africa, how it went from an simbol of anti imperialism to an country controlled by their own corrupt army?
In short: Mossad and CIA gets the most credit for that
Sadat’s policies certainly didn’t help stave off imperialism, so he deserves some of the ‘credit’ as well. Egypt under him saw its alignment move from the USSR to the United States (which meant losing all of those advisors and all of that aid), a purge of Nasserists alongside a shift in its prevailing ideological tendencies, and set it on the path to later reforms and western intervention (coups, interference, etc).
You are right. At later time Mossad was highly infiltrating Egyptian top officials.
And not just in Egypt either. Any allies that they could’ve had even if they had maintained Nasserism or a more radical ideology were robbed away by subsequent interventions in West Asia by various means. If op is into the history of the area during the Cold War and the fate of the radical regimes that were once in place its definitely worth looking into as it plays off of and into a lot of different topics.
Egypt was soooooo based
fuck the cia
