{"id":47969,"date":"2025-05-07T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=47969"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:52:47","slug":"drones-the-saudi-egyptian-war-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/drones-the-saudi-egyptian-war-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones… The Saudi-Egyptian War!? (2\/2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I See<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adel El-Baz<\/strong><\/p>\n

1
\nIn the first attack on Port Sudan on May 4, 2025, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs quickly condemned the strikes that targeted infrastructure and vital facilities in Port Sudan and Kassala in eastern Sudan, describing these acts as a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.
\nAnd at dawn on Tuesday, May 6, Egypt again condemned the new attack, calling it a serious escalation.
\nBut is this all Egypt can and is willing to do, or can it do more to stop the chaos brewing in its strategic depth?
\nWhy should Egypt take a firmer stance with concrete actions?
\nCertainly not for the sake of echoing poetic slogans about shared history, struggle, or the Nile River\u2014however noble these may be\u2014but for Egypt\u2019s own interests. How so?<\/p>\n

2
\nEgypt has long described Sudan as its strategic depth\u2014what does that mean?
\nIt means Sudan is Egypt\u2019s first line of defense in terms of security and water, as all Egyptian historical, military, and political literature has long asserted.
\nIs this strategic depth now under threat?
\nThere is only one answer: Yes.
\nEgypt’s strategic depth is now facing an unprecedented threat\u2014how so?<\/p>\n

3
\nReliable security and press reports indicate that the drones that struck Port Sudan yesterday and today were launched from the Al-Atrun Oasis. Where is this oasis?
\nIt is located in the desert in northern North Darfur state, where a military base previously used by militias is now used by the UAE as a launchpad for its military operations against Sudan. This includes drone strikes that have targeted Port Sudan, Kassala, and other cities over the past two days.
\nThe UAE-backed militia announced in April 2025 that it had taken control of the Al-Atrun area, near the borders with Libya and Chad.
\nThe distance from Al-Atrun to the High Dam is approximately 1,200 kilometers, and it is only about 2,000 kilometers from Cairo. The distance from Al-Atrun to Port Sudan is also around 1,200 kilometers.
\nAdditionally, the Bosaso base in Puntland, Somalia, is approximately 1,200 kilometers southeast of Port Sudan.
\nThis means that drones capable of covering the distance from Al-Atrun to Port Sudan can also easily reach the High Dam.
\nIt also means that UAE drones, disguised under the banner of the militia, can reach Cairo itself (2,000 kilometers away).
\nSurely, Cairo is aware that Houthi drones have penetrated deep into Tel Aviv.
\nIs there a greater threat to Egypt\u2019s national security\u2014from within its own strategic depth\u2014than this?
\nGreater than leaving a hostile and reckless enemy entrenched behind Egypt, in a region that had been secure for centuries since the Kingdom of Kush conquered Egypt in the 8th century BCE, during the reign of King Piye (around 730 BCE)?
\nFrom then until the era of Bashir (the Islamist \u201cking\u201d who fought alongside Arabian Peninsula rulers to protect the Holy Land), Egypt\u2019s rear had been safe\u2014no betrayal, no gunfire, no daggers.
\nAnd why not? Egypt is the heart of our history and the constant object of our love.
\nNow, a modern-day Muhammad Ali Pasha\u2014or rather, the Gulf Pashas of Zionist influence\u2014are trying to threaten Egypt from the rear, using their bashibazouks (militia of the Dagalo clan), just as Muhammad Ali Pasha once tried to conquer all of Africa with such forces.
\nAnd Egypt sees this with its own eyes\u2014so what is it waiting for?
\nAs Al-Mutanabbi once said while in Egypt:
\n\u201cThe least of struggles is the one you’ve already faced,
\nAnd the lightest of ailments is the one you know the cure for.\u201d<\/p>\n

4
\nCan Egypt really trust the UAE (its rulers, not its people)?
\nThe UAE now hides behind its Janjaweed militia, dragging with it the Zionists in the Abraham Accords cart.
\nHas there been an Arab state not betrayed by the UAE regime?
\nIt tore apart Yemen, split Libya, dismembered Somalia into fragmented regions, leaving Greater Somalia in ruins!
\nIt helped destroy Gaza and annihilate its people in alliance with the Zionists, aborted Tunisia\u2019s revolution, and now has knives turning inside Algeria. As for Sudan, it was not enough for UAE rulers to fund genocide and kill its people\u2014now their drones are destroying the country\u2019s assets far and wide, despite the Sudanese having never wronged or harmed them.
\nThe Sudanese people have always held love for the Emiratis, but the UAE rulers have no loyalty to any people, land, or bond of brotherhood.
\nSo how, in God\u2019s name, can Egypt trust rulers whose nature is betrayal?<\/p>\n

5
\nWe do not blame Egypt for failing to act for Sudan\u2014rather, we blame it for not doing enough for itself.
\nWe have seen how Egypt\u2019s security can be threatened from Al-Atrun…
\nNow, let us consider how Egypt\u2019s economy could be threatened if the Red Sea is set ablaze.
\nThe Suez Canal is a major source of foreign currency for Egypt, accounting for around 10% of global trade.
\nIn 2023, the canal generated record revenues of $10.25 billion.
\nIn 2024, canal revenues dropped sharply by 61%, falling to about $3.99 billion. This decline was due to regional tensions, especially in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab, where Houthi attacks on ships led many shipping lines to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope, halving the number of vessels passing through the canal.
\nAccording to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, these challenges cost Egypt about $7 billion in lost canal revenues in 2024.<\/p>\n

6
\nThus, Egypt\u2014already facing a well-known economic crisis\u2014is experiencing a severe shortage in the resources contributed by the Suez Canal to its economy.
\nSo what would happen if maritime traffic in the Red Sea stopped or was disrupted?
\nUnfortunately, Egypt\u2019s enemies are betting on this crisis, hoping it worsens, and are actively working to deepen it by fueling conflict in the Red Sea. They assume that an economically strangled Egypt will submit to their management and sell its position on the war in Sudan in exchange for financial blackmail.
\nBut they do not realize that the people of Egypt have never\u2014and will never\u2014submit to anyone but God.
\nNo matter how tight things get, Egyptians do not sell themselves or their values for money.
\nBut these newcomers to politics and history do not understand Egypt\u2019s greatness\u2014because they have never read it.<\/p>\n

7
\nOnce more, and finally: given all this… what is Egypt waiting for? Not to save Sudan, but to save itself.
\nEgypt is facing existential threats\u2014security-wise, economically, and nationally.
\nHas Egypt not heard the warlord threatening to invade it?
\nHas it not heard militia thugs and rogues threatening to strike the High Dam, now within reach of their drones, under the command of UAE-backed Janjaweed?<\/p>\n

8
\nThis, Egypt, is not Sudan\u2019s war\u2014it is the war of every free person in the world, every revolutionary who refuses blackmail and betrayal, and every people who won\u2019t mortgage their will for a few dirhams.
\nThis is a war to reinforce the historical march of great nations, and it is a war in which drones\u2014no matter their range or harm\u2014will never defeat the people.
\nThey may hurt us, but only a little.
\nAnd God prevails over His affairs…
\nSo, Egypt\u2014will you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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