Egypt Is A Ticking Time Bomb. 

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“Let them eat cake.” sounds a lot better than “Let them eat leaves.”

Kind of crazy how Egypt went from the bread basket of the Roman Empire to the world’s largest grain importer. But going from a population of 5 million to 111 million with no additional arable land will do that I suppose.

"Egyptians can eat leaves in hard times." Says the man who dines on fine cuisine.

Honestly, Iraq should be an important lesson for Egypt because they too had one of their largest sources of water, the Euphrates, damed by the Turkish in the 80s and have had only trouble since with reported shortages of water and it takes no genius to say that this has contributed to the country's instability.

I once read a quote that is very representative of Egypt. "While most states have a military, Egypt's military has a state."

"Let them eat cake", "Eat leaves", "Eat bitterness"... I'm seeing a trend here. I guess having leaders who like to say "I'm the state" are prone to getting caught in their own delusions and vanity projects.

"Eat leaves" That's what you get when an army general becomes dictator

I remember some years ago something similar was said in Iran by president Rohani - can't afford food? decrease the size of your breakfasts to a minimum, Islam's prophet too starved at times.

Any country with authoritarian leaders are always at risk of collapsing.

Too many people, not enough resources. A tale as old as time

I visited Egypt back in the 80s. Was not impressed. Except of course with the ancient ruins.

It’s ironic that Rome used to depend on Egypt for grain/feeding its population. Now it’s the absolute opposite with Egypt depending on important grain.

Egypt is a strong country and Egyptians are resilient people, greetings to my brothers from Tunisia 🇹🇳

I always thought it was crazy that the countries that are most reliant on tourism are the ones that hate tourists the most.

Seems like they stepped up their game and became their own Locust plague

Can someone correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t Egypt Romes main source of grain in ancient times and now it’s the worlds number one importer?

Really nuts how they live on only 4 percent of the land

He would rather bend the knees to certain countries than stand up for his people. I feel sad for the beautiful people of Egypt 🇪🇬

I hope RU-vid manages to survive. In 80 years time these kinds of videos are going to be pure gold for historians studying the 20s. This is without a doubt the most well-documented era in history. Videos like this provide an insight into the current state of the world and reasoning as to why things are happening. Something we don’t have in so much detail even 30 years ago.

Interesting that you did not suggest the idea that building the capital is incredibly important and worth the billions due to the fact that this new capital is “protest-proof.” Modern day Versailles

Egypt is history, a resilient land, its people are made of solid rock, they have stood the test of time and will continue to do so, no person or empire could bring down the cradle of civilisation. Love u Egypt.

Egypt so much potential but the mis management ruins it. It’s should be a rich nation given its God given assets. What is this 💩 show. Even Ethiopia doesn’t care and they ethically cleanse portions of their population every year

A great video as always, but what's was not said about Egypt's new capital is that it's not just a vanity project for Sisi, it's a way of maintaining power for himself, that being the megaproject is being used to pay off high ranking officers within the Egyptian military, The company overseeing the construction of the new capital is owned by the Egyptian military, which means the money is being used to bribe Senior ranking members of the military to remain loyal as well as pay them off for supporting his coup. Also by building a new capital, He's coup proofing his regime by removing The center of governance from Cairo itself, Making it much more difficult for the masses to seize control of government buildings during a revolution by placing distance between the ruled and the rulers, The avenues of the new capital are very wide, which makes it difficult to barricade them and makes moving troops much more easy, and finally The government is implementing a mass surveillance program within The new capital itself that will be on par with what we see in China. It's indeed a vanity project but also serves practical needs of the regime, despite how awful it is.

The only solution is industrialisation to improve the productiveness of that huge population. Turn that population into an asset rather than a deficit. Secondly, free up the arable land along the Nile to produce more food and invest heavily in food production technology and techniques.

love your stuff!

That add of invideoAI is frightening! That is going to be the end of youtube.

This is a topic I'm specifically interested in; in the future, could you put links in the description to the sources you used, such as the article by Arfouly? Thank you!

I retired to my home in Morocco a few years back.We have poverty but not on this scale.I wish the faith did more.I do my best but it's an uphill climb!Oh I'm British but now have my Moroccan residency I love the place!

"Bread" was misspelled on the "Distribution of food in the Egyptian diet" chart at 06:47

Your videos area always so great, keep it up!

Ethiopia tripled its wheat production in just 2 years becoming the largest wheat producer in Africa. It's planning to be the largest wheat supplier in Africa but Egypt doesn't won't to work with Ethiopia

Always Love your great content and visuals❤

I'm not sure the Prussia saying completely captures how intertwined the Egyptian military is with the economy as a whole.

Now I am not surprised that Egypt is red and inflamed on the map🤷

as an Egyptian I'm telling you, this government keeps making the most stupid decisions imaginable, day after day.

Saudis, Emirates Kuwaitis, including the US will never allow Egypt to go down, its crucial for power balance and security. Just like Pakistan, money for no returns

here are many types of cockroaches in the world and they can live in the desert for long time. even some of specimens can ride camels. they known for dirtiest bugs among all

keep em rolling brother 💪💪💪

These videos always come out and the country is always fine at the end, I just went to Egypt and people spend money like no tomorrow, they aren’t poor, the government gives them housing, education and jobs if they even try the slightest. The problem I saw was that most of the development was outside of the rural areas and only in major cities

Great video as always GTBT thanks for yalls hard work ❤ from TX

Well done video. I like how you ended it with that question. I wish more RU-vid creators could master a good ending like that

Egypt neighbors is fighting and effecting the economy.. Sudan in south.. philistine in the east and Yemen attacking ships and effecting 90% of Suez canal revenue+Libya also in chaos and none ending wars..not mentioning chaos in the Middle East Syria Iraq Lebanon Yemen all of that and the corona crisis years ago really made big hit for the economy that was in bad mood already. I hope my country in the future in better conditions (sorry for bad English 😂)

Egypt should send troops to Yemen.

Egyptian here, there is many things the video did either misunderstood, ignored intentionally, or was totally wrong about, such as following I'm stating below and lived through them as an Egyptian: • Ancient Egypt is at least 7200 years old and not 6000, also, we live on 7% of the nile and not 4% as he stated, in addition to Egypt fertility is 15 for south, 2 for north which round up to 8 kids in average, not 5 as he stated above. • Al-Sisi manipulate religion, he cause the unjust, chaos, and destruction then dare to say your prophet lived in tougher conditions, we are not even had the right to call ourselves believers, and twist verses interpretations to show us that what he do of evil is supported by Quran, by most Sheikhs, Al-Sisi is recognized as an infidel for all crimes he done against Islam, all muslims he is responsible for their death, and all the unjust and destruction he spread through the lands, in addition to be a Zionist and aiding Israel against Gaza and is responsible for all deaths as Netanyahu. • Wheat prices doubled in psan of 3 days then tripled, it didn't just go to 60% as he stated, and Eish Baladi translate into Local Bread. • Zahr Gas field issue wasn't mentioned by him at all, Egypt agreed on exporting Gas to Israel, in which they were in a contract that should've ended but Al-Sisi renewed it after destroying the entire Gas field, Egyptian Army ordered engineers there to exhaust Gas from there at the fastest rate possible, engineers said doing so will mix Gas with Water, causing the Gas Well to no longer be viable for usage, render it useless, Army threatened them under Al-Sisi orders, and engineers were either to face jail or obey, in which by doing as they warned, the gas well mixed with water and no longer usable. • So to export the agreed upon share of Gas to Israel, Al-Sisi used the natural share of Egypt that is self-sufficent to support Israel in which he cuts electricity fromt he entirety of Egypt for 4 hrs a day to support that deal with Israel. • Al-Sisi jailed Ahmed A-Tantawi after preventing him from practicing his rights of elections, jailing all people who went to elect him, kidnapped studens from all colleges of Egypt, kidnapped all governmental employees from their works and forced them to elect him, anyone refusing was accused for treason and jailed and/or excuted for not following such orders. • New capital isn't build as an investment project, it's a military project in which to isolate the capital from downtown, preventing any revolutions from holding government hostage and is built as a military base to exterminate all citizens in case the poor thought of getting even remotely near it, also, the poor aren't allowed there or allowed to even work there which add to the fuel. • The growth in population isn't real, Egyptian aren't able to get married, half of the population at least don't have the right to marry and can't even dream to afford it, people who give birth no longer want children, southern Egyptian that used to give birth to 15 are now sitting at up to 5 kids instead of 15, the raise in population is due to the immigration of Syrians and Sudanese, in which added around 15m total into Egyptian's population which government did willingly and blame us for. • Lastly, FFS, Hosni Mubarak was doing projects in favor of "Egyptian Investors" to generate opportunities for Egyptians and doing projects that directly benifit Egyptian, Al-Sisi's goal is to eradicate all of the poor class of Egypt, and all projects are exclusively favoring to the rich elite class, it doesn't even affect the middle class of Egypt.

You forget the Sudanese problem and how it affects Egypt in a great negative way

10:45 Correction: the suez Canal was during Said Basha's reign and was finished during during Ismail Basha's reign not under british rule infact was built with an agreement with the french.

Great video; succinct and without bias.

My dear fellow Europeans! At this point you should be fully able to understand where this wind is blowing! Pretty soon ALL of middle east and africa will see their bright future in Europe and will try to come here!!! Vote RIGHT today or you will be FORCED to vote FAR-RIGHT tomorrow!!!

The man also had to fight a war against terrorism. Anyways, it is sad that he made critical mistakes. I used to love him. I wish that he either wakes up, or just leave, as the country won't survive another revolution with all the region around it in a mess.

The video is well prepared for but there are significant mistakes Egypt does not depend on tourism for 50% of it's income the number is a lot less

I'm earlier than the Pharaoh :D

Don't ask whether it is good/bad, right/wrong, or decent/indecent. Ask only whether it is sustainable/unsustainable, and you will have your answer.

The North South Corridor between India, Iran and Russia is also a big threat to the Suez Canal

Hey everybody, who is so glad that Hubert is back?

Even so, with the economic crisis, Egypt sent 75% of aid to Gaza, while the rest of the world sent only 25%. Egypt currently hosts more than 10 million refugees, while European countries host 12 million and cry every day because of them economically. Egypt's modern history is full of helping other countries financially and morally, and it built the Arab Gulf states with its engineers, teachers, and doctors. Egypt is not a period that has ended... Egypt continues to give despite all the current and colonial difficulties

free the kind people of egypt

Could you provide a video for the only democracy in the middle east, so that we may learn something to copy, such as morality, equity.

The biggest tourist scam that relies on it's history to compensate for it's lack of innovation. Had lots of very inconvenient encounters with many of them, one of the pettiest and most judging people, and highly proud of how "humble" they are (ironic, right?)

Eat Leaves, like the prophet. I imagine Early modern Popes and Bishops during famines told the peasants 'Jesus fasted in the desert!'. Theocrats always the same: Leaves or nothing for you, feasts for me.

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That is an amazing set of challenges. Can't imagine how it's going to be solved.

Nice coverage of the current situation in Egypt and a great video editing. I noticed a small mistake in your timeline of The Suez Canal: (10:39) the digging of the Suez Canal took 10 years, between 1859 and 1869, while the British occupation of Egypt started in 1882. In fact, many believe that the British attacked Egypt to control The Suez Canal which was an important and short route to India

, Egypt must have a severe economic crisis: increasing inflation (to a peak of about 40 percent in September), a lira crisis and huge debts. About 60 percent of the Egyptian population lives below the poverty line and without the ability to take care of basic needs such as: food and living. Projects such as: "New Cairo", "Extension of the Suez Canal". In which Egypt and countries like "China" have invested billions of dollars, are not seen as economically profitable so far. In addition, Egypt is the largest importer of wheat in the world, and since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine and before, wheat prices have risen at 96 dollars per ton. Egypt receives loans from the World Bank in the amount of over 500 million dollars in order to purchase wheat and take care of the most basic needs that it needs to take care of its citizens.

How much money they spent on that new capital city???

Thank you. food for thought as always 👍

i’m lovin it (your videos)

I'm an Egyptian and I might disapprove of some of the decisions taken by the government, but Alsisi is FAR from Mubarak, Mubarak done like %25 of the projects and progress done by Alsisi in a presidential term of 10 years Alsisi vs 29 years Mubarak, and Mubarak had a corrupt hierarchy milking Egypt for its wealth, and don't worry about us moving in masses to Europe, we survived many invasions by Europeans and others and we're still here.

Why don’t they sell off the Sinai peninsula as well

Excellent video,, thanks

The Suez Canal was opened more than a decade before the British arrival, not to mention “rule”.

Way too overpopulated. That is the fundamental reason.

It's a sad thing for what's happening in Egypt. Egypt should at least be one of the 20 largest economies in the world.

The graphics are really cool.

so good analysis 😊

Consequences of living beyond one's means... Egypt's de-population was long time coming.

This is just showing the bad situation of Egypt, they selling their land of foreign countries which is forbidden in Islam, they need loans from loan for but wheat and basic products.

Tourism contributes to 15% of Egypt’s economy.

As an Egyptian i say that Egypt after king farouk was ruled by those who seek only power, not to care about the country. The only way to save Egypt is for people to take action in the streets

Arab Egyptians “the British stole from us” Also Arab Egyptians “we ignore the fact the our ancestors did the same but way worst”

100+ million people lmao what the fuck are they thinking

Egypt is a walking dead body

Egypt was once the bread basket of the ancient world. Able to supply Rome when it couldn't supply itself.

Never going to Egypt

hate to say it but a very disappointing choice in sponsor.. they will fill youtube with obviously ai generated slop garbage

Electricity gets cut off every where more than 3 hours a day.

Here have this comment for the algorithm :) Very nice video btw 👍

Hmm, a few errors: the canal was built during ottoman- Egypt rule, not british rule. Rather, the canal initially bankrupted the country, leading to British rule.

Egypt is in an absolutely most unique position on the entire planet, to create a man-made inland sea, and consequently, drastically increase living space. all it needs is political will. you can look it up, it's fascinating.

Wow he got told the people have no bread and bro really said “let them eat leaves”

Correction: the Suez canal was not built during the British rule. The Suez Canal was constructed between 1859 and 1869 by the Egyptians. It was officially opened on November 17, 1869. The British occupation of Egypt began in 1882. This followed the Anglo-Egyptian War, during which British forces defeated the Egyptian army at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir.

a corrupt horrific place

It is saddens me what Islam did to such an ancient nation

Watching the advert I can't help but think of the fight that Kyle Hill is having.

Thank you my brother for this investigation. I see my friends in comment section also care about us. God bless you guys. You waved a serious alert about the explosion inside and outside Egypt. I hope that people wake up before it's too late. We became horrible country because of these military thugs that rule our country

You're parroting communist propaganda, he never said, "Egyptians should eat leaves" , he said, "Egyptians should be able to eat stuffed grape leaves every day, but it's just not possible, We just don't have the monetary resources", he said that in 2022, Stuffed grape leaves are considered a delicate dish in Egyptian society due to how expensive it is, a dish with 20 pieces can cost you 40 dollars or more, its usually stuffed with spices, herbs, rice and meats, of course marxist Egyptians twisted his words into, "Egyptians should eat leaves", as a way to draw in Egyptian voters who were struggling from the after-effects of Covid-19 and the economic fallout.

Good for Ethiopia for doing what it’s right for its people, Egypt can cry all they want. They don’t have exclusive rights to the economic development offered by the Nile.

good stuff with a few mistakes as usual with any Egypt econ content. I want to point out that saying only 4% of the land is habitable is a bit of a stretch, most coastal areas in Egypt (which is a lot) are habitable not to mention other deserted places that could be renovated. the only reason the government and investors are focusing their capital on the delta is because it's cheaper to concentrate everything

all the world will come to live in egypt in the near future , cause its safe and full of miracles and Blessing

Egypt’s disaster has been a long time coming!