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Egypt: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi rules ten years after the Arab Spring as a dictator

2021-02-10T23:25:15.099Z


Donald Trump has called him his "favorite dictator": Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is the strong man in Egypt. He relies on restoration instead of revolution - and that's why he gets petrodollars from the Gulf.


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Apparently wears the same sunglasses models as Joe Biden: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

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"When my doorbell rings early in the morning," Winston Churchill once said, "and I can assume it's the milkman, then I know that I live in a democracy." In Egypt, democrats and Islamists alike can do that do not know.

You'd better look through the spy before opening your door.

Ten years after the Arab Spring, which led to the overthrow of long-term ruler Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the most populous country in the Arab world is once again a flawless autocracy.

At the head of the strong state today is Abdelfattah el-Sisi, the man whom ex-US President Donald Trump once called his "favorite dictator".

At that time, a decade ago, the world gazed spellbound on the land on the Nile, which, unlike most of the countries in the region, did not come into being at the card table of the colonial powers, but which was "old when Rome shone, was old as Troy was taken «, as Theodore Roosevelt once put it.

A peaceful battle cry that is still relevant today: "Freedom, bread and dignity"

The demonstrators from Tahrir Square protested against the brutal repression by the ubiquitous security apparatus.

Their peaceful battle cry: "Freedom, bread and dignity".

The masses wanted to overthrow the corrupt and brutal Mubarak regime - on February 11, 2011, after more than two weeks of protests, hundreds of injured and dead, the time had come: Hosni Mubarak abdicated.

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