El Sisi will always support state actors against non-state ones -Trager

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has not toed the GCC’s “anti-Iranian line in the region” and is “instead following his own pattern of supporting state actors against non-state actors,” Eric Trager writes for the Washington Institute. Trager says El Sisi views himself as “a strongman combatting those who seek chaos, foremost among them the Muslim Brotherhood.” He believes El Sisi will follow an “‘Egypt first’ playbook.”