The people demand the fall of the regime!” echoed unceasingly across Tahrir Square. The demand was clear. Only one man fell - Hosni Mubarak, who spent 30yrs stealing from, torturing & holding Egypt captive. Five U.S. presidents --Democrat and GOP-- propped him up.
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1353711386791190529
In fact, during our revolution, Joe Biden - the current U.S. president who was at the time Barack Obama’s vice president - refused to call Mubarak a dictator.
The regime remains. Sitting atop it now is our current dictator, Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi.
Donald Trump, whose presidency ended just a week ago, used to call Sisi “my favourite dictator.”
Remember that, when you ask over and over “What happened? Why are you still not free?”
Donald Trump, whose presidency ended just a week ago, used to call Sisi “my favourite dictator.”
Remember that, when you ask over and over “What happened? Why are you still not free?”
We the unarmed people of Egypt are faulted for not being free of the rule of the 10th most powerful army in the world that is armed by the most powerful country in the world & the EU & allies whose calculation has always favoured stability of the regime over freedom of the people
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