I saw this on Chinese social media and thought it was interesting. The Chinese commentary on social media is that the last time a country sent its historical artifacts to China for safekeeping it was from Syria before their civil war. Is this a sign Egypt is preparing for war?
Could be part of some existing agreement. Maybe they’re duplicates of things on display and this way they can lend them to another country for viewing and hedge against the country falling apart and looting.
Egypt would never attack the occupation of Palestine, the US wouldn’t let them and Sissi seems compliant. So the only other things I can think of would be either an expectation of a regional conflict with Hezbollah and Iran that gets very intense (with Egypt on the side of the US probably so on the receiving end) and/or their military and/or people rising up and a civil war or collapse situation emerging because they’re very upset about the genocide happening next door while their US puppet leader does nothing.
The third scenario I could imagine (basically #2 but with western support) could be that the west is gearing up for a second “Arab spring,” to drive BRICS out of the region through either destabilization or regime change. I’d be surprised if that isn’t being seriously considered at this point TBH- because compliance with genocide and warmongering isn’t enough, the lackeys of the empire are expected also to sacrifice their economies and entire future as well in the name of western hegemony- and Sissi and the Gulf Arabs are increasingly seeking a better future in that regard.