Russian media wants us to take note that the US doesn’t want us to have Rafale jets

Russian media wants Egypt to get the message that the US doesn’t want us to have Rafale jets: “The US government doesn't want a country like Egypt to possess such technology," Alexandre Vautravers, an official at the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP), told Russian state-owned outlet Sputnik on Saturday. He is referring to reports, which we noted last week, that suggest a US ban on component sales of the Rafale’s Scalp missiles was behind floundering talks between Egypt and France over the sale of 12 Rafale jets. Vautravers says this is a deliberate move by the US as “this type of missile could influence power dynamics in the whole Middle East and create a problem across the region if it was used against a country like Israel.”