I am talking about geopolitics. You are talking about popular opinion. Thats the diffirence here. Russia made huge gains in last 5 years. Anyone can see that. Russia is and always will be number 1 threat in EU for USA and Israel. Also Erdoğans religious embitions will die with his goverment...
Bein westerners or Asians has no importance to US . Russia is a dangerous country with Nukes and they are already making play in Belarus and Ukraine also in Georgia as well. So I very much doubt you comment on "US doesnt care ".
They do care but covid19 and election is only thing they can focus...
They upgrade their AH 64's to the E level ı think. Egypt is recieving billions of dollars of foreign aid from USA so they will always buy new toys from USA.
No they talked the US first and get Ah-64 from USA as well. It seems even CAATSA doesnt apply to Egypt because of the multi dollar orders from USA. But also it showes us that USA does not care all that much for SU 35.
Yes they can. But thats not the point. If egypt and uae change their policy in libya they wouldnt be in bad terms with Russia. Russian foreign policy is very interest driven. They would continue to sell their weapons and goods. Because every plane they sell every tank they sell is a blow to USA...
Where did I said sanctions ? I said convince . If you think that Egypt and UAE can make independent decisions you are out of your mind. They follow US orders all along.
OF course not. Russian footpirn in Libya is minimal at the moment. If US is commited to solve Libyan conflict they could easily convince Egpyt and UAE and and without those countries Russia can do very little.
After the election I expect that US and Turkey will come together and find a common ground in respect to Libyan conflict and France will be either turn to the neutral or support Tripoli. The main thing that they will see is that if Russia get a permanent base in Libya it will be very very...