Leaked Documents Reveal Egypt Secretly Planned to Send 40,000 Rockets to Russia
Egypt is typically closely behind Israel in terms of countries receiving the highest amount of US foreign aid each year. For example, a State Department fact sheet has reviewed that “Since 1978, the United States has provided Egypt with over $50 billion in the military and $30 billion in economic assistance.”
This is why the US administration was likely livid when it learned that Washington’s ally, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, was moving to ship tens of thousands of rockets to Russia as the Kremlin executes its war in Ukraine.
The revelation came via the trove of classified Pentagon files leaked online, which is now the subject of widespread reporting. The Washington Post, which has seen the leaked slide, said that Sisi recently ordered the production of up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly shipped to Russia.
The top secret document is dated Feb. 17 of this year and purports to summarize conversations between the Egyptian president and his senior military officials. Artillery rounds and gunpowder are also mentioned.
Indeed, countries like Egypt caught shipping weapons into Russia would not only prove highly embarrassing, but could possibly trigger US sanctions on Cairo, or at least the freezing of defence aid to the country. Some pundits have pointed out that Russia is running up against its own military supply shortages, or at least expects to run low, after a year of waging war in Ukraine.
