America’s strategic vacuum can also be seen in Egypt in the wake of the military’s overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government. Obama’s uncertainty about how to deal with the coup has created an absurd situation in which most Western-oriented groups in Egypt – the military and secular elites who underpinned Mubarak’s alliance with the US – have now turned, in desperation, to Russia as a source of future military supplies.
埃及军队推翻总统穆罕默德·穆尔西的穆兄会政府后也可以看到美国的战略真空。奥巴马面对政变惊慌失措造成了目前这样的荒谬局面：包括支持穆巴拉克与美国联盟的军队及世俗精英在内的埃及多数亲西方团体现在迫于无奈转向俄国作为未来的军用物资供应商。