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Legitimate question: I understand the Suez Canal is this major shipping route and it's owned and operated (slightly indirectly) by the Egyptian government. But why do all the news stories I see about the Houthi attacks say the US, the EU, all these other countries are sending ships to secure safe passage?
I know these countries want to protect their people and their goods going through the canal. But Egypt owns and operates the Canal and they make over half a billion dollars a month off it. They have the largest navy in the middle east, the largest navy in Africa, and the twelfth largest navy in the world. So why aren't they doing more to protect transiting ships from attack?
they gave control of the red sea task force to the US last year.
theyre the 12th largest navy in the world.
their navy us split into 2 fleets: Mediterranean and red sea.
they have 2000km of busy coastline to patrol.
the attacks are also happening beyond their coastline in the gulf of aden.
Djibouti has a military base of loads of other countries because uts also in their interests to protect the shipping
a weak navy and large coastline means they have limited ability to project naval power before considering protecting the gulf of aden or putting airstrikes into yemen.
oh, and Egypt has a track record of having an incompetent military, so there's that...
i think you need to refer to r/habibimemes in order to understand the mental gymantics
Political sensitivities. Some of the multinational coalition currently patrolling the area have declined to be named, and it's widely speculated that Egypt is among them.