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US war on Iran | Megathread for Week 13 of 2026 (lemmygrad.ml)
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[-] cenarius@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

[2026-03-29] @leftward_ink@x.com: Since this is gaining traction outside of people who live here: it is also important to note that energy reduction already began months ago outside the capital, in the places that even had regular electricity. Israel holds the power switch & the pricing of gas—

Never forget: Cairo will go dark at 9pm indefinitely because our gas is keeping the lights on in the bunkers of Tel Aviv. Our compradors have tied our destinies with that of the settler. Extorting money from Palestinians at Rafah does not patch-up economic slavery, clearly.

@a_samir48@x.com: Btw Iran is the sanctioned country at war not Egypt if u happen to be confused. Glad we have strategic energy security

In the 40s, when the “Egyptian” monarchy sent our men into Palestine with faulty weapons, while they were on the negotiation table with the British, that was a choice. This too—the dark, the hunger, the humiliation, the paralysis—is a choice.

“In the long run, we are all dead” is the operative ethos of our compradors. Not out of ignorance do they make every choice that fattens their pockets with blood-soaked dollars for their blip of a lifetime. As is, Egypt will vanish at the altar of “just-in-time” sovereignty.

It is not an exaggeration to say we are in a Suez Holding Company western monopoly situation with our existential enemy. Maybe the suffering of the downtrodden today would not have been in vain, had we not been held hostage into the wrong side of history.

Pic from last night: 100s of people returning from work waiting for irregular buses, whose fares increased exorbitantly—in the shadows like zombies under a bilboard selling luxury housing that doesn't exist on the speculative market. All of this humiliation, to keep Israel afloat

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[-] Marat@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago

What's even going on in Egypt? I feel like out of any country in the middle east they would have some amount of influence to do...anything

[-] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Compradors. That's my very limited knowledge, but it seems us/isntreal has managed to build and maintain a compliant ruling class for quite some time now.

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