Why Egypt's New Capital is Bankrupting the Country

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[@nasseribnamr9043]

As an Egyptian, every cent is going to this city. propaganda is saying to us that it will benefit us but it will only be for the rich while the people are not even capable to buy rice

[@WastedBananas]

so business as usual then

[@killman369547]

Time for another arab spring?

[@ItsAVolcano]

And worse a lot of wealthy Egyptians have taken the mentality that only "the poors" have a problem with the capital.

[@joshimdhishim309]

The rich would give their lives for Egypt. Give them everything.

[@uncleMaine4774]

I was thinking there’s no way the Egyptians aren’t suffering the cost of this. What’s the reasoning your government has given for this? I’m having a hard time understanding exactly why this big move is happening.

[@chrisdalton8221]

Trade offer: You get: -Sky high cost of living -Generations worth of debt -low international exchange rate - double digit inflation I get: - football stadium - big pillar - golden palace :)

[@scottthejot2668]

*you don't have a choice.*

[@TaherAbdelazim]

I'm an Egyptian living in the capitol Cairo, and for a year now the electricity cuts everyday 2 hours or more because according to the government we cannot afford not to have daily cutoffs to save money.

[@LoLFilmStudios]

Your electrical infrastructure is overwhelmed.

[@Amon_Gus6969]

Why are these people in office? Why have the citizens of your country voted for them?

[@Mohamed_ayman101]

@@Amon_Gus6969 I am an Egyptian and I'll tell you why every time the presidential election comes the government pays the poor citizens whether it's money or some rice and flour in exchange for their vote for that MF to stay on his chair it's like "Give us your vote and take this free stuff to eat" and because a large portion of the population are poor, hungry, and non-educated they agree like sheeps, and alongside the corruption and non-fair elections it all are reasons for those MFs to stay ruling us, like imagine the current president won the last elections with 98% of the votes like wtf? and that is the truth that no one gonna tell you, it sounds stupid but it is what it is

[@philliphine1401]

​@@Amon_Gus6969out of fear, buddy... Out of fear.

[@egygadgaming6694]

Am in cairo and this was only at the start of the Gaza situation and recently doesnt happen

[@ADMGHX]

"when everything in the country converted into chaos , they will build a city for themselves, away from the disgusting reality of what they have done" a truthful words from Ahmed Khalid tawfeq , it was written in his novel "Utopia" which he predicted the future of Egypt

[@ADMGHX]

I am Egyptian BTW

[@YogiMcCaw]

Yup. El-Sisi is building an ark. Only his supporters will be allowed. Everyone else will left to the ravages of a climate that will see 120F temperatures every day in Egypt. He is simply planning for the country to die, but he wants to cover his own behind. Sadly, because of geopolitical realities, the West will fully support this travesty. The new capital is clearly designed to be able to exist on foreign investment alone, meaning it will be entirely non-dependent on the crashing Egyptian economy. It is the elite class using its money to escape from the collapse of it's own homeland.

[@issam830]

الرواية تحفة فنية غير مكتملة

[@ADMGHX]

@@issam830 رحم الله أحمد خالد توفيق و أسكنه فسيح جناته

[@aniketbiswas7660]

Hope that Guy aint around to see his words becoming a tangible reality.

[@veitforabetterworld7058]

Fix existing problems in Capital city ❌ Build new city with non existing money ✔️

[@Human_01]

This is why intelligence should be prioritized and cultivated within a nation.

[@davidc1878]

@@Human_01 The sad thing is... the people designing and planning this monstrosity are a portion of the country's elites and intelligentsia. One can promote intelligence, but elites (even some of the intelligent and educated one) are always going to act in their own interests and benefit.

[@nellym46664]

@@Human_01 But then you won't be able to maintain your dictatorship!

[@nasseribnamr9043]

@@Human_01 luckily there is a massive brain drain thousands of young it and medicine people the country like me

[@Mortalsrk]

You are comparing buying a new city to servicing a city to cars. LoL no wonder why Egyptians have such meme comments. @AbhijeetKundu

[@bababababababa6124]

Egypt’s new capital is basically like South Korea’s new capital. Only difference is that Korea has the money in case it fails 💀

[@mricardo96]

And probably actual strategic planning instead of the urge of some ego filled businessmen

[@mnm5165]

Also South Korea has good reason to build a new capital. Seoul is tucked away in the very north western part of the country and is far from the rest of the major population centers. Also there is too much power in Seoul so the government wants to redistribute development around the country. I don’t think Egypt has any of those issues, Cairo is fairly centrally located anyway. Oh yeah true Seoul is also located right next to N Korea… don’t know how I missed that point too guys

[@NovaHessia]

@@mnm5165 The reasons are much the same for both countries. S.Korea has an incredible problem where the whole country is too Seoul-centric - all HQs, the best universities, the government centres etc etc are there, so that is bleeding the rest of the country dry while making the city crammed. At least taking the government out of this is thought to help address that imbalance. With Egypt it is much the same - Cairo is *incredibly* crammed, almost to the point of collapse, and despite the existence of Alexandria, the country is becoming very Cairo-centric. And that as well is because it is the capital. So removing the government seat to somewhere else is thought to alleviate that problem. The reasons are actually fairly similar.

[@onemorescout]

@@mnm5165Also Seoul’s uncomfortably close to the North Korean border, so it makes sense to move the central government toward the center of the country in case all hell breaks loose in SE Asia

[@puraLusa]

Oposite countries. Egipt has too many egipcians and south korea is in demographic decline.

[@DevAbdelrahmanMostafa]

As an Egyptian, I'm bewildered by how we've reached this point. I deeply regret to admit that everything you've expressed in the video is undeniably true. At 25 years old, I find myself unable to grasp the rationale behind constructing the administrative capital, yet your explanation has shed light on this matter for Egyptians who were in the dark. It's truly disheartening to see how a foreigner can grasp our situation, understand our problems and their solutions, and even benefit from them, while we, the people, continue to struggle. This represents a humble contribution to help disseminate awareness through your videos and elevate collective consciousness.

[@Sherief95]

As an Egyptian, this is a very conclusive and up-to-date documentary that I can easily recommend to anyone who wants to learn about the economic and geo-political situation in Egypt. Very well put to together. Kudos to this channel! On different note, regardless of anyone's political interests, I can safely say that we, as Egyptian, want nothing out of this ordeal but to lead a peaceful and humane life. I really hope our government understands this wholeheartedly. I hope my country will eventually get out of this economic crisis flourishing more than ever and I hope the Egyptian government avoids burning bridges with the Egyptian population along the way. Thanks again for creating this amazing documentary!

[@NavyNate123]

Just curious, would you prefer the Islamic brotherhood in charge of Egypt? Or any democratically elected leader? What do you think the majority of Egyptians would prefer?

[@DavidJimenez-ux2lw]

One question if u don't mind, why tf do you not revolt in mass like in the arab spring? It's dangerous I know but you did it not so long ago, does al sisi have a substantial support in the population for some reason? I don't know much about egyptian politics so I wanna understand

[@MohamedElsayed-mq9ur]

​@NavyNate123 as egyptian, I would choose Islamic president as we have free of speech

[@footballhd1111]

@@DavidJimenez-ux2lw Now all people agree that life in Egypt was soo much better before the arab spring. Protesting against the ruler aint the solution

[@Roadpear]

​@@DavidJimenez-ux2lw It's a really long story, but to try to dramatically oversimplify things, it's likely that the alternative is going to be even worse for many people. While many people liked the Brotherhood government, if you weren't Muslim you were screwed. Copts, who are minority Christian group in Egypt, were persecuted en masse. If you aren't Muslim, your two options are dictatorship or dictatorship that will kill you, making it unlikely a revolt will gain enough momentum to overthrow the government.

[@dragondev2617]

As an Egyptian I'm telling you If those Billions of Dollars were spent on Improving our Economy, Infrastructure, Education, Production Factories, Agriculture, it would've been so much more beneficial to us in the short and long terms, but No! they spent it on building Ultra Expensive Apartments In the Desert and new Government Districts so they can Practice their Corruption In better Offices.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@ dragondev2617 De salination plants would have been a good investment! The Nile is providing less water now that dams upstream, in other countries have been built[1] Decreasing the birth rate would be helpful too! ____________ 1.) of course the salt has to be disposed of. But Egypt has massive amounts of desert to dump it in.

[@georgefloydmayweather]

Hi, this was the first thing i was thinking about. Egypt probably has a lot to improve and if the government apparently has this money laying around, it could be used in so many better ways. Who needs these stupidly big buildings. And just artificially creating a city is hard enough but to actually make it sprawling and economically viable has proven many times to be very difficult. Im from Holland so im curious, didnt the citizens have a say in this, how does this come to happen?

[@farid6448]

As an Egyptian I tell you that the country did not pay a penny for the project. It is sold to private investors.

[@puraLusa]

​@@georgefloydmayweatherit's egipt, there are no citizens 😂

[@puraLusa]

​@@farid6448the military, saudis, emiratis and company will be the major share holders probably.

[@AmariFukui]

You all seem to be forgetting that Egypt gets a 20% bonus to production of Great Wonders, they're just playing this one to the meta

[@spacejesus731]

I came to the comments, and was not disappointed

[@ReezeGoingSenseless]

They already got +25% tile improvement and extra workers due to the pyramids, solid plan.

[@ahmedwahid7943]

I didn't expect to see a CIV 6 enthusiast here, but I love it

[@herihachiro]

is there any bonus troops attribute too?

[@ogmasterassassin]

We got a 300+ billion dollar debt 💀

[@marcoamin2254]

As an Egyptian I would like to compliment this KZbin channel for the great insight and knowledge of what is going on in the country, great documentary and all information in it is true

[@am88ena]

+1

[@philippvoid1800]

in 1000 years, archeologists will dig up the ruins of this unfinished project and ask themself, wtf was going on

[@pyromasteralex]

Even in present day people are looking at this unfinished project and asking themselves wtf is going on.

[@shubashuba9209]

You know your vanity project is bad when even the Chinese and UAE pull out.

[@GenXerReacts]

That's what she said!!!

[@farid6448]

None of your business

[@hampter7188]

​@@farid6448 its only Egypts bussiness...so dont ask for help when this project bankrupts the country

[@farid6448]

@@hampter7188 and do not ask to cross the Suez canal or bind the migration to Europe

[@nealrigga6969]

@@farid6448not gonna lie Farid but you are genuinely the very first Egyptian I’ve seen that actually supports this project 😭

[@joostverra9130]

Corruption truly is one of the worlds greatest and most tragic diseases. I wish all the best for the Egyptian people.

[@somyadas1618]

🎉corruption is a religion in itself

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

@@somyadas1618​​⁠Religion is built as a way to control the masses via corruption, and corruption uses religion to indoctrinate people into supporting corruption. It’s a vicious cycle. It’s the common people who suffer. People are indoctrinated from birth into supporting a corrupt, outdated, illogical, and unethical system, so most of them are just victims of it, themselves. And you can find religious/cult elements in other facets of other ideologies, such as authoritarian political ones, or even new age conspiracy movements. If everyone was raised without religion, and taught nothing but science, logic, ethics, and given a good education, including a secular education in religious studies (ie, studying the history of religions from a secular, academic standpoint archaeologically, historically, and literarily) - and then given the choice to choose their religion as adults, most sane people would not become religious. And I say sane because many studies have shown a significant correlation between religiosity and mental illness in adulthood. Of course, that’s not to say that all religious people are mentally ill. Most are not. Most religious people are sane people. What those studies show is merely that people who suffer from certain types of mental illnesses involving psychosis or schizo-typal disorders are significantly more likely to develop extremist forms of religiosity, or religious delusions, compared to the general population (as any psychologist or psychiatrist who has worked with such people will tell you). And the saddest part is that most people haven’t even read their own holy books, and definitely not multiple times, in their entirety, while studying the etymology of the words used in those texts. And they certainly haven’t studied the (objective, evidence-based) complex history of their religion, its beliefs, how they have changed over time, and how its texts came into existence. Most religious people just get their knowledge of their religion from their priests, pastors, imams, rabbis, monks, other religious leaders, and religious media. They very rarely research it themselves. In fact, it’s often when people do all of this research for themselves that they become disillusioned with their religion, and begin to notice the problems within it - if they are an ethical person, that is. If they are unethical, or the cognitive dissonance is too great, they will ignore all of the ethical and logical discrepancies. And if they are really psychopathic, they will recognise how they can use the lack of ethics in their religion to convince people to commit heinous acts. This is not to say that holy books do not say some good things that can be cherry-picked and quoted. But by and large, they are full of pseudoscience and immorality, and their existence can be directly linguistically traced to laws and other texts that existed during the time of their creation - which is just more proof that they are a product of their time, and of man. I personally happen to be enormously fascinated by religion, and always have been, from a very young age. I have studied the texts and history of the world’s religions (my dissertation even involved this subject, including the comparison and translation of ancient texts), and I always give religions the benefit of the doubt, going in thinking that they will be very ethical (I was raised extremely religious myself), but the more that I learn, the more I recognise that all religion is man-made, with all of its man-made flaws, pseudoscience, and horrific lack of ethics. Every religious text is not just a product of its time, but built upon the knowledge and morals of its contemporary authors (who were often far less moral or knowledgeable than even other people of the era). We can witness the rise of religions in action by looking at contemporary ones such as Mormonism and Scientology. We can laugh, as most do, and freely discuss the lack of ethics involved in those new ones now (particularly evident in Scientology, because it is the newest), but that is because they are new. For some reason, people seem to think that something being old carries more weight and deserves more respect than something new, but that’s actually a logical fallacy known as an “appeal to tradition fallacy”. To contemporaries watching people being killed, enslaved, SA’d, and subjugated by Mohammed and his believers when they were still an offshoot of Christianity, regarded as an odd and violent cult (which they were at the time), they were just as worthy of ridicule and admonishment as we regard Scientology today. And Jewish people were regarded as an odd cult in their time, too. We know from the objective archaeological and historical record that they greatly over-exaggerated both their accomplishments, and their subjugation, in the Torah (also the Old Testament of the Bible), despite mentioning some real people and place names. And their myths and laws were also almost directly copied from earlier and contemporary Mesopotamian and Babylonian myths and laws, showing once again that all religions are simply the product of man and evolve, in a similar way that language does. And of course, I’m not just trying to single out Islam or Judaism. Christianity has changed immensely over the centuries, and its modern beliefs owe more to Dante, Renaissance painters, and Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment writers than it does to the actual Biblical texts. And I’m not just trying to single out the Abrahamic religions, because eastern religions certainly aren’t as free from controversy as most would like to think - far from it. Native American and African religions are fascinating too, as are all the religions in the world that have long since passed and evolved into new religions. And there are reasons that all of them can be praised and criticised, as with every religion. But this comment is long enough already. The academic study of religion, and its historical, ethical, literary, and artistic evolution is incredible fascinating - and still incredibly relevant…because no matter what, one thing is for sure. The ruling class have always invested heavily in religion, recognising it as an important tool to subjugate, and control, the masses, by getting them to do exactly what they want. The only way to make a good man commit an evil act is through religion, by telling him that he is doing such a thing because he is on the side of an almighty being who is the epitome of all that is good in the world. Now, of course, not every religious person allows themselves to be used in this way. However, a significant enough number of people do fall prey to this, that for thousands of years governments, and other organisations, around the world, have made it their priority to pump out negative religious propaganda designed to increase division, hate, and violence; encouraging people to remain loyal and unquestioning to the faith - remaining suspicious, or even hateful, towards outsiders, or anyone who dares question the faith’s veracity or morality. Many global and religious leaders around the world (particularly authoritarian ones), of every major religion, still use this tool in their arsenal today. Even supposedly non-religious countries like North Korea are, in fact, religious - North Korea has simply founded its own proto-religion, known as the Juche ideology. They present the Kim dynasty as deities who can see and hear everything that all North Koreans do. The Juche ideology also has a series of completely untrue (and easily debunked - if you have access to outside media that is, which North Koreans are not allowed on pain of severe punishment to themselves and their families) myths surrounding the Kim’s to go with it. For example, despite this being completely untrue, the religion states that the founding Kim grandfather, Kim Il Sung, was born of a miracle on one of North Korea’s holiest mountains, and it has since become a shrine to the man. The Kim’s are worshipped like deities, and people engage in religious-type gatherings in which they are supposed to give their individuality up to the collective whole and the divinity of the Kim dynasty. I think the problem here is that spirituality should be a private thing, and a conclusion that someone comes to when they are an informed adult. When you have other people in charge of something as easily weaponised as religion, it becomes a very dangerous thing. I mean, think about so many of the conflicts of the 21st century. Almost all of them involve religion - whether it’s Bin Laden striking the World Trade Center because of his islamist beliefs, or Bush using Christianity to rile up Americans in order to fight his baseless and unethical war in Iraq, which then released a multitude of Islamists who formed ISIS. Think of the Arab Spring, which toppled stable Arab countries only to have Islamists backed by Western powers, totally crippling a multitude of nations. Think of the ongoing crisis between Muslims and Hindus on the India/Pakistan border, and the worrying Hindu nationalism on the rise in India, or the severe human rights violations in every Islamic nation around the world. Or the genocide committed in Myanmar by Buddhists against the Muslim minority there. The Islamists kidnapping schoolchildren in Nigeria. The list goes on and on.

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

@@somyadas1618 And of course, I just want to add that most religious people are peaceful, and kind, and sane, but the fact that even some can be weaponised through their religion is enough to destabilise the world, and it doesn’t help that religious holy texts all preach incredible amounts of heinous violence and immorality far more than they preach peace (when taken as literal instruction, anyway)…so they are especially good tools to help indoctrinate those who are lost, uneducated, or suffering from mental health problems. This will only end when we increase education around the world, stop indoctrinating children from a young age and instead just educate them - allowing them to make their own informed decision as adults, and take religious power out of the hands of other people, instead making spirituality a personal thing. Anyway, thanks for coming to my TedTalk lol. I didn’t expect my comment to end up this long, but it’s a subject that I am both very interested in, and passionate about, so it just kind of grew haha. I don’t know if anyone will, but thanks for reading this far if you have.

[@jammiebooker6489]

​@@somyadas1618money is the religion....corruption is the prayer.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Fun fact Paris was rebuilt to suppress revolts. The narrow cobbled streets were removed to stop people from creating barricades. The new broad, straight roads are connected by large plazas that can act as mutually supportive artillery parks to suppress rioters. It’s like an inverted fortress.

[@anthonydelfino6171]

Also related to this... the wealthy before the revolution decided to move out of the population center to a largely inhospitiable plot of land, into a new opulent palace complex. This is like history repeating. I give it two generations before the citizens of Cairo pull the government back by force... and maybe beheadings?

[@ViennaDarlingvd]

To be fair, they did also solve the sewage system, which imo was kinda worth the trade off.

[@dpfreedman]

Haussmann's redesign of Paris including the hub and spoke layout of major thoroughfares, I read, was intended to facilitate access to "light, air, and infantry".

[@hujjgt4075]

As a French person this is true but not the main objective of the project at this time traffic in Paris was really really bad and the population was growing rapidly so rebuilding the capital was needed which is why there are large roads obv it was also with revolts in mind but it makes Paris so beautiful so we don't care

[@dpfreedman]

@@hujjgt4075 A supremely beautiful city.

[@enissay9950]

18:27 this is indeed the main reason for the project: ensure no uprising can hurt the military regime like in 2011!

[@fark69]

What a criminal. Killed the only elected leader of a country in history and then looted the public to build his own mansion. Should be tried at the ICJ, imo

[@mohamedzaki3161]

As an Egyptian I couldn't agree more with that part, it's painful but true.

[@beno1129]

As a now middle-aged African, I have ever-increasing contempt for leaders along the length and breadth of the continent who think that they can buy prestige rather than build it. Why all the focus on having the biggest, the tallest, the largest structures? That means nothing when you haven't dealt with fundamentals such as improving civil infrastructure and minimising corruption.

[@Kaiserboo1871]

You see this same mindset in pre-industrial empires. Every Empire wanted to build something that was large and long lasting. It seems like modern dictators function with the same mindset.

[@bw2442]

People are basically empty and need something to prop them up.

[@caeruleusvm7621]

As a fellow middle-aged African, I couldn't agree with you more. Our continent has a very serious crisis of leadership.

[@YoutubeActiveSpamPolice]

As an Arab I think this city might work nice and it might not but I thinks it’s a nice idea it’s different from all the other ideas

[@saimalianwer7740]

@@caeruleusvm7621it’s not a crisis of leadership it’s just that the west backs the worst possible candidates who usually overthrow actual good candidates who could improve our countries

[@saifdes]

It’s funny how an “outsider” independent online creator was able to explain our miserable situation better than our own so called “experts”. It’s sad, very sad actually, there doesn’t seem to be light at the end of this tunnel we’re digging into.

[@StrikeWarlock]

Those experts are paid by your own government, and they're not going to risk their lives to say what the government doesn't want to hear

[@3komma141592653]

Because your experts are not independent and can't tell openly how it actually is.

[@Elhastezy888]

​@@3komma141592653oh thanks so much for the "education" 👍🏻🤣🤣🤣

[@saifdes]

@@3komma141592653 Well of course I’m aware of that. The problem though is that even those who are outside the country and actively against the government don’t seem to be any better. They’re just trying to build a career from being the “against the government” person or they’re trying to push another fucked up agenda. Nobody seems to truly care about the people.

[@deigamohamed707]

💯🥲

[@thenasiudk1337]

Indonesia's new capital is exactly looks like this. The only difference is that we actually have the money to build it.

[@muichirotokitotokito6819]

Indoesia is different yall need to build a new one since jakarat is sinking

[@cozakokotano6448]

Saudi is most likely gonna fund it.

[@crysed7897]

Indonesia need a new capital to escape from it's unavoidable sinking situation... Doesn't matter if they have money or not. But Indonesia is much smarter by diversifying it's funding source to private and foreign investment.

[@agasxt]

Indonesia economic output is far higher than Egypt and it will actually be cheaper at around 486 trillion rupiah or 30 billion usd, much cheaper than Egypt new capital at 58 billion

[@Nabil-ef7lo]

We have a trillion dollar economy and pay in cheaper price

[@balkanmadnessmadeinaustria5837]

*Why cant countries build smaller, but quality cities. I live in Vienna, 50% of the area is greenery or forest the other is city. Nearly no skyscrapers, but Barock buildings and good urban planning. Don't build a city to show of, build a city, where people want to live.*

[@stukz7094]

you don’t get it, it’s not for the people, it’s for the dictators

[@escapeearth2327]

Amen! And you have better quality of life! But our dictators only care of themselves!

[@mohamedossama8290]

As an Egyptian, with every project he talks about I can feel my soul leaving my body knowing all of this will basically be for nothing when no one moves to the city because it's too expensive

[@user-rc7jp6ey5j]

بس يا كسسسها الواد قاعد يحط أچندات على مصر اساسا، و انت اهككل متعرفش حاجة عن اى حاجة و بتتكلم بكىىىختك

[@user-jk3gy8vo3m]

I hear that Egyptians hate Sisi but he won the last election by a huge margin. Are the elections rigged or is there another reason?

[@slevinchannel7589]

Did or didnt Adam Something cover this Insanity?

[@vylbird8014]

That's the idea. It's made to be expensive enough to keep the undesirable lower classes from moving in, so that the wealthy elites living there won't have to ever endure crossing paths with a commoner.

[@drdewott9154]

@@slevinchannel7589 Im 99% certain Adam Something did, this kinda stuff is right in his wheelhouse.

[@MPRVX]

Living in Egypt is atrocious currently, it was bad two years ago but right now its unbearable. I'm in medical school and I had to sell my Ipad and start working because food is not affordable anymore. Like can you not be furious if you only sleep 6 hours for the last one year to barley afford low quality food? its so depressing

[@mikeshojaei2574]

Egypt like turkey will be enjoying a hefty money from world banks to invest it in infrastructure including airports, ports, hospitals education and industry. But again like turkey the consequences will be debt and a weaker middle class. So at the end the people will pay for all these by lower living standard and poverty.

[@salomastation6004]

Keep your useless opinion to yourself or maybe to who already live in Egypt and love it

[@abdoplays5089]

​@@salomastation6004bro I live in egypt and it sucks dude u are prob one of the rich folks that will live in this capital but I can guarantee that like 90 percent of the population won't be able to live there bec the a single apartment will cost like 5 million egp and most people can barely even live with how expensive everything is here

[@muradal-ahmad4048]

​@@salomastation6004very unconstructive! You can argue your point without this weird jingoism.

[@serwano3758]

How mutch money monthly would help you to only focud on med school Brother?

[@ne7rawy67]

As an Egyptian who is deeply invested in our geopolitical and economical situations for 5+ years now I wouldn't have made it clearer. Amazing effort! An important piece of information you left behind is the Zohr natural gas field, which was discovered in 2015, promising the Egyptians a stable and guaranteed energy source for many years to come, only to be surprised last May by a severe decline in its production capacity, which prompted the government to take heinous decisions, such as reducing the loads on residential areas throughout Egypt for a period of up to four hours a day, and return to importing natural gas again in a time where huge dept interests are due.

[@ahmadzidan5698]

I don’t usually comment since I like your videos, but as an Egyptian that works and studies inside the new capital, I have to point out some inaccuracies in your information. The most important inaccuracy is the presidential complex. You got it waaaay off on the map. It’s like three times smaller than the area you highlighted.

[@morganvikings_]

As someone who is interested in architecture, I love this project. As someone who does not like people going hungry and corruption, I hate this project

[@ncard00]

4K quality please.

[@MegaBlueShit]

Why the hell are they building this in the middle of the desert? Why not pick a more strategic location?

[@morganvikings_]

@@MegaBlueShit there’s not much arable land and what is arable has to be used for farming and it’s kinda too skinny except in the Nile delta to sustain a city like what their planning. Still doesn’t make it a good idea tho

[@stinkywizzleteets4740]

As someone who is also interested in architecture, I hate it. This architecture is terrible in my opinion.

[@morganvikings_]

@@stinkywizzleteets4740 tru lol its pretty mediocre but the spire plans are kinda cool

[@The_SonicPELICAN]

Imagine if they invested that money into upgrading and developing new infrastructure, education and health.

[@cosmokramer8261]

They have been investing heavily everywhere to improve the quality of life in Egypt. The new capital is just one of the projects.

[@fark69]

A military dictator who has a blank check from US / Israel, why would he ever help the sniveling public who would never elect him to lead? His only way of power is by force. Why would he care if the people starve or cry or anything else? He already overthrew their democracy. Why not ruin the economy too

[@TusharSundarka]

​@@cosmokramer8261 are you, by chance, part of the Egyptian government

[@nameunn5479]

Keep coping man​@@cosmokramer8261

[@cosmokramer8261]

@@TusharSundarka haha, not at all. Just an Egyptian who’s aware of the amount of work the government has done over nearly a decade and grateful for what we have despite the challenges. Most of the whole world is going through a very rough time economically since that war started.

[@Mu_Anwar]

I worked 8-hour shifts as a customer service representative for both KFC and Hardee's, earning just $60 per month, all while facing the challenges of inflation Man If I were unable to leave Egypt, I would log out of my life

[@user-cd9bi5sw2r]

Oh My God, I spent a WHOLE HOUR watching this and rewinding the parts that were interesting and I didn't feel the time at all... thank you for this amazing episode

[@ponraul1221]

Glad to see the Egyptian people have such a humble and fiscally efficient government that focuses only on the most vital of tasks.

[@chadsimmons6347]

Egypt presidential palace built for under 4-billion? That's cheaper than Versailles in France,,,or maybe not

[@farid6448]

None of your business

[@danghoangluong2942]

@@farid6448 WHy you say that? We are just happy for Egyptians

[@derekaitken]

I am sure this will help the 30% of Egyptians who live in poverty

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

@@chadsimmons6347 it's New Versailles

[@jorgeabud1133]

As a Brazilian I can assure anyone here that moving capitals is a way to take politics away from the people, this new capital is the punishment for what the Egyptian people did to Mubarak

[@fainitesbarley2245]

Yep. The Bolsheviks did it. Many African dictators did it.

[@FelipeSilva-tu8tc]

Like Brasilia, capital of Brazil ...

[@advicepirate8673]

Myanmar did it too and it's no accident. These are the actions of tyrants attempting to insulate themselves from the people they oppress.

[@watchm4ker]

While this is blatantly a means of creating a fortress against popular or religious uprisings, it can work both ways. Washington DC and Ottawa both replaced their nation's earlier capitals (Kingston and Philadelphia) partly as a way to bring the capital closer to the disparate groups within the nation. (North and South for the US, British and French for Canada). Admittedly, the OTHER reason Canada moved the capital to Ottawa was the potential of invasion by the US. Which only... Really went away in the mid 19th century.

[@hemafalcon629]

As an Egyptian you 100% right

[@mhussainhamdulay1013]

Wow amazing video bro I was waiting for so long on Egypt new capital

[@RashadHAlKhmisy]

This video summarizes the most important developments and events that occurred in Egypt in the past decade. Great job 👏

[@saltmerchant749]

Hubris and Corruption, name a more iconic duo.

[@incognino5726]

Religion & corruption.

[@michaeljf6472]

Middle East and uncompleted megaprojects

[@tt128556]

Israel & Palestine

[@almami1599]

@@incognino5726religion and almost anything

[@phaslow4393]

I'm torn between: diligence and stupidity versus defiance and pig-headedness.

[@WarWithIn]

As an Egyptian, this is by fr the best video I have ever seen, I have been telling everyone that for years, thr Egyptian economy is not going to change as long as Egypt under military dictatorship. Bravo 👏

[@dremor8446]

you voted for crazy muslims, what did you think ?

[@RD1R]

Not the first time insane, highly visible projects that didn't help anyone but the ruling elite got built.

[@LizardKing-io9vi]

It's a hit piece against Sisi because he refused to take in the Gazans as per Israel's wishes. You're quite gullible, nobody makes a video like this because they're worried about the poor.

[@tmo2798]

As long as they don't buy in to finance capitalism and get a good production economy; their living standards should improve despite the population growth.

[@kkade2773]

@@LizardKing-io9viah today i will be delusional

[@esgamer208]

Thank you for the research you have done. it's very educational and simple to understand.

[@suddhojitgon5929]

Excellent video again. Great narration coupled with fantastic graphics.

[@kevincronk7981]

As an American from DC, this sounds like they're trying to make an Egyptian DC but bigger and better. The thing is,we didn't build DC all at once, it has been slowly built up over centuries. If anyone can understand history taking a long time, it should be the Egyptians.

[@AK-hi7mg]

Modern Egypt also doesnt has an equally heroic founding story. They dont understand that copying buildings and make them larger doesnt create a founding story.

[@RoundBaguette]

​@@AK-hi7mgare you for real? Lmaooo

[@rafael_lana]

​@@AK-hi7mgto be fair, DC is a blatant copy of roman architecture with a little bit of french. Don't think for a moment you're original either 😂

[@kevincronk7981]

@rafael_lana I'd say that DC Architecture is more in the style of roman architecture than just directly copying it. Like the white house isn't a bigger version of a specific Roman building, it's just built in that general style.

[@rafael_lana]

@@kevincronk7981 copying the style I mean, it's not like the octagon will be the same as the pentagon just look at it, its just the concept. But arguing that copying doesn't work while praising DC is hilarious 🤣

[@swagmaster1437]

As a lebanese i find this very endearing. At least Egypt can say they achieved a fool's errand of a city by going 60 billion dollars in debt and economic crisis. Lebanese get a pile of ash for the same value!! So it's all a matter of perspective.

[@schmooplesthesecond5997]

🤣🤣🤣 thats the attitude. Lebanon could use more riba.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Did or didnt Adam-Something cover this Insanity?

[@patriciakimball8150]

😢

[@SamEisa-pt5up]

$160 billion debt actually.

[@morbiusenjoyer2847]

As a fellow Lebanese this is indeed true we got basically nothing for it

[@patrickwinther]

Insanely informative!! GJ!

[@AboldGuy]

A packet of noodles was 3egp about 2 years ago now you buy it at 10egp~12egp. That's one thing now imagine the rest yourself.

[@gwh3013]

This is insane. Why would you even do this? I feel for people in Egypt who are struggling and their government is wasting money on this.

[@SC-dm1ct]

Compare it with how much the U.S. government wastes.

[@ziadfazbearyt9054]

Well the U.S has the money to waste But here in egypt our president is literally taking out loans with high interest rate and wastes that money, and that is the reason that imploded our economy and made life in egypt worse

[@pdworld2418]

@@ziadfazbearyt9054he’s been told those loans will be forgiven by the IMF if he agrees to take large amounts of displaced Palestinians. he plans on betraying the Muslim world for money

[@GrandProtectorDark]

​@@SC-dm1ct weak deflection

[@gwh3013]

@@SC-dm1ct why?

[@SirSogMuffins]

I see Egypt is going for a cultural victory by rushing all these Great Wonders

[@BlakeWR81]

They did build the pyramids first, so they started early. They just wasted their free builders and forgot to slot Urban Planning into their government.

[@MrOner07]

good game...!😂

[@atoucangirl]

they forgot it barely gives any tourism when built late in the game

[@peterpan408]

To make it stick, you have to complete it FIRST. Otherwise it's a waste.

[@scrimblomale31]

LMAO

[@kshumon2000]

Thanks for this! Entertaining and informative at the same time.

[@lecommentaire4639]

Excellent video! The 2nd part, geopolitical, is brilliant!

[@dazzaMusic]

The same thing has already happened in Burma, the new Capital of Napyidaw is a ghost city because they expected everyone to move there but they are yet to relocate anyone from the old capital city.

[@paeanthotse6778]

They have calculated that between U.S, UAE and Europe, as long as they can hold onto power, the money is unlikely to stop

[@zaph2580]

And now Indonesia is trying the same thing. Making a new capital city.

[@jamesdavis6304]

@@zaph2580 Indonesia is moving its capital because Jakarta is sinking though.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Pictures of those massive empty roads in Napyidaw are wild. Why the hell would _any_ city need a 20 lane (!) boulevard ?

[@farid6448]

Never compare any country with EGYPT

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

My father was born in Egypt in 1956. He moved to different countries when he became an adult, and eventually settled down in the US maybe in the 90s. He told me about leaders like of Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak. Most leaders in and around the middle east are just hard-headed donkeys that rarely take no for an answer. It's why theres always barely any progress in those regions. The money or aid goes to fancy military parades, and expensive measuring contests while their citizens are too poor to afford the dirt they walk on. We still have family there. I hope they're alright.

[@user-ix2be4ws5k]

Egypt is better than America and we live happily with the sun and the Nile

[@kkade2773]

@@user-ix2be4ws5ksure thats why ur gov is desperately trying to get away from the slums that are Cairo

[@3komma141592653]

I mean, they had mostly free elections after the revolution and they elected the Muslim Brotherhood. All who voted for them deserve to live in this trash country. The young people wanted a future and then some old guys likely voted for those religious nut jobs. The country deserves all the misery that comes up on it after that. It is not even worth to start another revolution when people vote for the Brotherhood again. And when you look at it, there is not a single successful country in the area unless it has free oil coming out of the ground. They keep being corrupt hell holes and therefore it is unlikely to ever become a successful country.

[@sallywilton2236]

Yes, mired in corruption. Sisi is just a pound shop Putin.

[@theresahana7210]

Sisi built a new Egypt with a promising future maybe you should visit to witness the change yourself are you sure you’re Egyptian

[@josephlongbone4255]

A bit of perspective on Buckingham palace, it was built at the height of imperial British power, you know, when we owned half the planet. Egypt doesn't have the immense wealth extorted from India and Canada, so where are they getting this cash from?

[@blackbeard6423]

Buckingham Palace is a garden shed compared to other palaces in England, too! But the point is taken-Egypt is nowhere near a "great" nation and has not been for centuries. My heart goes out to ordinary Egyptians who are struggling and have to watch this insanity unfold before them.

[@nathanlima4608]

Its explained in the video, they gette the money from loans and other nations send money to Egypt

[@OBGYNMT88]

Loans from foreign banks and imf

[@feckusmaximus3234]

A bunch of countries - Egypt, Indonesia, South Korea - are hopping on this new purpose-built capital trend. To me, they all just seem like pointless vanity projects for countries that have much more serious problems than ageing office buildings.

[@jonnelacecodog3490]

Original Title: Why Egypt's New Capital is Bankrupting the Country

[@mnm5165]

How long do you think until he changes it

[@tryapka_]

what was a previous one?

[@Jonslau]

This is the only one​@@tryapka_

[@ZimbabweanBugbite]

@@tryapka_that’s the original title, he pre commented so people will know when the title will actually change

[@aimankudin542]

Probably 5 to 6 hours

[@mikahamari6420]

Earth calling Egypt: "Let's build a city to Mars." Egypt: "Consider it done."

[@freeindeed2354]

ميكا حمارى??"Let's build a city to Mars." ..Is this English??

[@bakermakingbread]

@@freeindeed2354I think he means a city on mars

[@Stupid_A_Scanbe]

If I had to take a guess...... I'd think a consolidated group of various leaders around the world are enamoured with the Egyptian civilization and its significance in human history. So they have embarked on a project to recreate their very own Oasis, where they can live as pharaohs by taking from and enslaving the people they were meant to serve and represent.

[@adamisadamplays]

@@freeindeed2354STOP SAYING IS THIS ENGLISH TO EVERY COMMENT, JOKES DONT NEED PROPER GRAMMAR

[@kseniyaalekseeva7671]

This is the best overview of Egypt's current situation I have seen. Thank you!

[@HectorKom-cg5if]

Thank you real life lore. Your videos are always helpfull and informative.

[@explorer47422]

Egypt is gonna Egypt I guess, the Pharaohs would be proud

[@luodeligesi7238]

By the time it's done, the new presidential palace will just serve as the current president's tomb

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@@luodeligesi7238 No. Rebellion (or military defat) = Meet your new overlords! Pharaoh's did it, Islam did it, Colonial powers did it, Communists did it.

[@streetsarecold]

yeah so many people died building those pyramids

[@cly_]

​@@here_we_go_again2571the communists were the one revolting, you mean the fascists?

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@@streetsarecold Pharaohs gonna Pharaoh!

[@wayando]

Kenya used a different formula; divided the country into 47 administrative block ruled by regional Governors, and legislated by local representative who never go to the capital. The Governors are then tasked with creating a plan to develop their area. And so we have 47 different epicenter of potential developments ... And some of them are succeeding in pulling people away from the crowded capital of Nairobi. I imagine this is a better system.

[@AderitetheOreWing]

Now that actually sounds like a good plan.

[@anthonymanderson7671]

This is actually good. Egypt can do the same but they chose to do the opposite.

[@MohamedGamal-nk8on]

​@@anthonymanderson7671 we are doing the same in egypt we are currently building 28 cities across egypt each will become the new center of each governorate foreigners always focus on the new capital and forget about the rest

[@RK-cj4oc]

​@@MohamedGamal-nk8onThe thing is. You do not have the money for 28 new cities.

[@nealrigga6969]

@@MohamedGamal-nk8onthat’s the thing though… why waste money on building 28 new cities when you can use that same money to develop the existing regional capitals across the country? You guys make really bad financial choices over in Egypt 😂

[@sabinatoma8281]

Your videos are amazing!!! One after the other! Thank you!!!

[@jolles8798]

Just started a Nebula account. So much great content!

[@CairoRipper]

I'm an Egyptian and I must say this documentary about the ghost capital is perfect! Exceptional work! Thank you

[@ahmadanbar4473]

But it's depressing, they should stop this before its too late

[@farid6448]

​@@ahmadanbar4473we will never stop

[@marwanelbana4771]

You are not Egyptian. You are a person living in Egypt who has extremist Islamic ideas. As an Egyptian atheist, I see this city as wonderful, far from your control and extremism. Even if people like you revolt to implement Islamic law, you will not find any government headquarters in Cairo to protest in front of.

[@farid6448]

None of your business. I support it and no one on earth can stop us.

[@marwanelbana4771]

Do not believe these people. They appear to be oppressed, but on the contrary, they are extremists and persecutors of religious minorities and atheists... They begin to get angry because they will not be able to achieve the Afghanistan they want.

[@wingeditz41]

45 Minute Netflix Episode ❌ 45 Minute RealLifeLore Episode ✅

[@elijsh8605]

true

[@henlohenlo689]

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[@raider_reaper_4194]

Watch Both 🧠

[@streetsarecold]

next real life lore video:why netflix is chill

[@iambicpentakill971]

You need to watch better Netflix shows

[@ryderhicks8643]

Great video real life lore!!

[@tomriley5790]

I find it amazing that in Roman times Eqypt (and Tunisia) were the bread baskets of the empire exporting vast amounts of food and now they're nearly wholy dependent on food imports.

[@PedroOrtega1993]

Nothing remains the same forever...

[@Kristiyan-Angelov]

​@@PedroOrtega1993Not because Egypt makes less wheat but because people are much more. At those times the food that was produced in Egypt was enough for them and for Roman Empire arrond 20-30 million people. Now they are producing for 55-60 million other is coming from other countries. The problem is too much people that's all.

[@yasserel-harmil535]

Egyptian here, very well done! You summed it up perfectly

[@ibnu9969]

How does Egyptian feel between Morsi and El-Sisi government?

[@muslimbrother63]

@@ibnu9969 The worst thing that ever happened to Egypt since it's inception thousands of years ago is El-Sisi

[@ibnu9969]

@@muslimbrother63 why? Is he worse than morsi? Or even mubarak?

[@JS-vj1il]

@@ibnu9969 This guy is called muslimbrother it tells you everything you need to know.

[@yasserel-harmil535]

@ibnu9969 morsi didn't really rule to have good judgment. The military was controlling everything back then. He had his flaws but surely not 1% of Sisi. I don't think Egypt witnessed a crazy man like him for centuries

[@jamesf3871]

Right. Because as we’ve seen before with Akhenaten and Amarna, Egypt building a new capital in the middle of the desert has always been a rollicking success, and certainly not a reckless vanity project which will be abandoned in a generation or two.

[@farid6448]

None of your business

[@farid6448]

@@seanoconnor1984 keep sympathy for the poor people in the west that are eating from the rubbish. Poor and rich people in Egypt are in the same families and have solidarity with each other that you can't dream of. So keep your sympathy for your own poor people.

[@TesterAnimal1]

@@farid6448what is your psychological problem?

[@farid6448]

@@TesterAnimal1 why someone calla himself animal? Is this a confident issue?

[@farid6448]

@@seanoconnor1984 sure, a barrier builder between liers and honest people. So stop telling rumors.

[@krav4421]

Well made documentary!!!

[@OmnipotentPotato]

There was a power crisis last summer so they scheduled outages across the summer months... In order to diver enough electricity to the new captial. It's mind-boggling.

[@Ryukuro]

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

[@tfninjadoom]

All hail Ozymandias.

[@eeyun5279]

@@kirbothe’s making a comment about the futility of rich and powerful men taking on large vanity projects (at the expense of the poor and working people)

[@watchm4ker]

@@eeyun5279 More to the point, the subject of the sonnet is a monument to Ramasses II.

[@farid6448]

None of your business

[@zwarga100]

breaking bad moment

[@benwatt54]

I'm getting canberra vibes from this. But unlike this city, canberra actually has a rapidly growing population, so much so they're building massive ammounts of residential areas on the other side of Black Mountain.

[@greywolf7422]

Canberra also had the benefit of being simplified in favor of more complex design plans, mainly caused by forced economic pragmatism pot WW1 and WW2, it also was being built just prior to Australia's raw resource boom, leading to its further growth as you mentioned. Many similar projects just lacked financial and design pragmatism along with corruption issues, that eventually drove them either to a more stunted state, or entirely to the ground. Think Brasilia (Brazil), Ciudad (Equatorial Guinea)

[@rafael_lana]

To be fair Camberra wasn't trying to break any world records just for the sake of it. The scale of some parts of the egyptian one like the palace and military is just absurd, would make any leader of a functional democracy resign just by proposing it.

[@rafael_lana]

@@greywolf7422 Brazilia was build in full and its used to this day by millions, putting it on the same level as Guinea is ridiculous. Try Sri Lanka desert city for a better example.

[@benwatt54]

@@rafael_lana I mean, they did envision Capital Hill, which was stupidly ambitious, literally building a massive complex into a mountain, but still, we actually had the income to support that idea. Though notably, they scaled it down massively, cos originally it was gonna be building into an actual mountain, but they bulldozed that and built a hill on top instead

[@SeruraRenge11]

Canberra also, you know, existed prior to becoming the capital, much like Ankara in Turkey. They didn't build a new place out of NOTHING and NO ONE living there.

[@SimonPearce000]

I was in Egypt in December 2023. It is a poor, corrupt, and grossly overpopulated country. Outside the cities, the poverty and filth is very depressing. The ancient monuments are hugely impressive, but with so many people, so little employment, and a heavy dependence on tourism (which can’t grow much), I don’t see a booming economy. So projects like this are basically insane. Invest in education, health, infrastructure. Not this.

[@XxAbdo]

thank you for talking about this

[@Ja79X]

Moral of the story - Don't spend money you do NOT have

[@streetsarecold]

you just described my ex gf

[@peterroberts4415]

​@@streetsarecoldand these people vote

[@ManMan-bf4je]

The problem wasn’t that they took on debt it was that they wasted all the money on useless mega projects.

[@mekal177]

​@@ManMan-bf4jewrong. True moral, be in position to dictate where money is sent

[@SH-lb1nu]

Well that is just what governments do. Most governments don't have money. It's just a measure who has less or more no money lol😊

[@trueFeathil]

I've been in Egypt last October 2023. The ppl there live with barely nothing, no basic infrastructure of any kind...and the government is doing this shit. You can see It from the Highway if you travel to Cairo, and even from just a brief sight you can already figure is a terrible idea to put It lightly

[@masha22092000r]

You know whatt they say... The country's government is only as good as it's people deserve. Not to say that this "capital" project isn't batsh!t insane..

[@cattymajiv]

@@masha22092000r You cannot blame the people for this. It's a crime!

[@babel_fishing]

Sadly, it seems Egypt is doing its best to fit in with the more corrupt side of African governments (some nations are much better off than others, I will say that). But like, seriously…it’s insane how the cycle just KEEPS continuing on the continent.

[@frixxer87]

@@masha22092000rWe tried revolting TWO times, how is this our fault?!

[@farid6448]

None of your business

[@warwizard1309]

It's curious how after several millennia the rulers of Egypt are still making the same mistakes.

[@tomriley5790]

Buckingham Palace is largely only worth that much because of where it is - it's right in central London, plus the historical significance of the building. It's completely different from building something costing that much in previously barren desert.

[@Max-ji5cg]

The most powerful military's control center is the pentagon, Egyptian military "lets add three more sides"

[@here_we_go_again2571]

In Judasim and Christianity an octagon represents the day of eternity (judgement, Christ's return) A pentagon represents Mars/war.

[@Max-ji5cg]

@here_we_go_again2571 Very interesting, cool to know the symbolism the architects were going for.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@@Max-ji5cg I do not know if the designers of Egypt's new capital understand the symbolism. They might have thought it was a cool design. I would be looking for clues to find out if they were using symbolism and knowing what it meant. Frankly, this sounds like a W.E.F. project to me. How the devil is Egypt going to pay back the loans for this mammoth project?

[@JP-xd6fm]

I'ts funny how they could have gone for Hexagon, but seems they needed more sides lol

[@saarze]

In the US, the military is an arm of the state. In Egypt, the state is an arm of the military.

[@GothPaoki]

I don't understand why they'd waste so much money to a project like this when they have so many problems in their country. This feels sth like the dubai billionaires would waste money on. It's sad to see a government so corrupted and completely unfazed by their people struggling.

[@GothPaoki]

This whole affair seems like they took exorbitant bribes to accomodate some corporations

[@nasseribnamr9043]

The elites from the military and finance sector a building this city for their decadent lifestyle

[@sfdko3291]

There's no group on earth that tries to one up their opulence more than the Arab nations.

[@tylerk3616]

Egypt has been corrupt for a very long time.

[@yousefmmmmm]

We do not waste our money. In fact, Egypt is building approximately 40 other cities and 8 nuclear reactors, and we spent 400 billion dollars on infrastructure. In 2019, we ranked 28th in the world in road quality after we were 118th. This greatly reduced the rate of accidents and reduced the cost of treating these accidents. Egypt also built ports and invested In the army etc. Don't believe KZbin

[@karimosama.]

As an Egyptian: this is the reason my diet is working

[@mustafaalghareb2278]

😂😂😂😂😂، كتفم الضحك

[@hemaccabe4292]

I would be ready to bet that in 5 years, this place will remain mostly empty and be slowly crumbling back into the sand.

[@bltwegmann8431]

This was "BY FAR" the longest documentary on this topic. For perspective, it is more than twice as long as it would take 300 termites to eat a 1 foot span of cedar plank.

[@worfoz]

👍 perspective

[@baronvonhoughton]

A very standard unit of time.

[@SinaAla]

😂 see what you did there

[@jeffreychambers8948]

This comment is underrated

[@thomaslove6494]

This video covered "VAST" amounts of information... Possibly the "GREATEST" collection of data since the library of Alexandria!.....

[@Drios818]

As a Mexican who’s country’s economy is soaring right now, I feel for my Egyptian brothers.. we dealt with corruption for a very long time.. up until 2018 actually. Now we’re on the right path. The best of luck to Egypt!

[@Cooe.]

... Mexico and the Mexican federal government is still endemically corrupt as all shit. 🤷 Methinks you've just adjusted to having Stockholm Syndrome. And the booming economy has MUCH more to do with China's fall than Mexico's rise. It was a "in the right place at the right time" kind of thing.

[@samy7013]

Thank you! Hopefully we can find our way out of this dark tunnel at some point soon.

[@BlueDef811]

Your country is fortunate enough to be next to the USA. Did you know that Mexico does almost 350 billion dollars of trade with the USA, which is second to Canada.

[@Drios818]

@@BlueDef811Hi BlueDef.. we were second to Canadá up until 2022, look it up. We are now America’s #1 trading partner surpassing Canada and China. And I wouldn’t say we’re fortunate enough.. a lot of us Mexicans are a mix of Aztec/native Mexican and Spanish(Europe). We are who we are. This is our land and we wouldn’t say fortunate, we made our “fortune”. Also if any other race of people were next to USA they probably would’ve gotten conquered and annexed. You know America took half of our land right? And they wanted to take and annex everything but they didn’t want to encounter Mexicans more to the south being as to how we are greater in numbers central/south México! Now you are better informed! 😁

[@Drios818]

México - 475.6 Billion. China - 427.2 Billion. Canada - 421.1 Billion.

[@A-ii5dp]

39:00 I think you went off the rails of the title of the video at some point, but I can't remember when lol.

[@AffectiveApe]

These videos are such a breath of fresh air. Thank you for providing them to the world, and for slowly peeling the back myopia so many of us have towards world affairs!

[@JG-MV]

As someone who lived in Egypt and many other countries both rich and poor, all I have to say is that the money being used to build such things is coming straight out of the mouths of hungry babies. Otherwise I see no way how they can afford it…

[@yousefmmmmm]

We do not have hungry people in Egypt, Al-Ahmath. You are in Egypt, not poor Africa

[@killman369547]

@@yousefmmmmm If your government keeps spending ludicrous amounts of money on dumb shit like this then you will sooner rather than later. Take it from a Canadian. It only took 8 years for our egomaniac PM to destroy our country.

[@ambessaseway5594]

​@yousefmmmmm hunger doesn't mean people starving to death it means people are suffering and can't buy enough food for their family that is exactly what's happening in Egypt

[@WillieFungo]

No different than Haussman's reconstruction of Paris in the 19th century. France was poorer than (modern) Egypt at that time.

[@oliwierbroda2575]

​@@WillieFungoquite on the contrary. It was significantly richer.

[@Legorreta.M.D]

Of course. What a country with multi year deficits which is financing itself through debt really needs is to build a city from the ground up that will bankrupt its economy. Pharaonic palace included

[@lastswordfighter]

The more things change the more they stay the same so as it was in the Days of Noah.

[@tyrant-den884]

El-Sisi: "B-but the Emirates have-" MORE OIL THAN PEOPLE!

[@tyrant-den884]

​@@lastswordfighterthis feels more Akenaten.

[@michaelanthonysabatolegget9386]

Sounds like US politicians spreading deficit bugeting-cheer.

[@farid6448]

None of your business

[@ThePerks2010]

How many districts will they manage to finish before he's put up against a wall like Caucescu?

[@Kiwi-sp3nh]

very informative reportage

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

Cities usually take decades, if not centuries, to come into form and be developed. Usually it’s done by independent actors with a vested interest in their own development projects. They’re gradually built up and improved upon small bits at a time, over time. Cities aren’t centrally planned from scratch with only imagination limiting the size and scope. How could you ever expect to manage something like this successfully?

[@franohmsford7548]

Brasilia was built in 41 months, from 1956 to 21 April 1960, when it was officially inaugurated. American architect Walter Burley Griffin won a worldwide competition launched in 1911 to find a design for Canberra, Australia's new federal capital. Construction began in 1913 and was completed by 1927. - Of course neither city is home to anything like 6.5 million people with Canberra being only around 400,000 whilst Brasilia's metro is approx 2.8 million. But they are examples of cities {capital cities at that} that did not take decades and certainly not centuries to build from scratch! - China has built multiple cities, they can't get the people to move into them but they built them :)

[@brosaus]

I believe Indonesia is also building a new Capital as we speak.

[@farid6448]

What about Dubai that was designed by an Egyptian?

[@Furzkampfbomber]

@@farid6448 Dubai is actually not a very nice city and has serious flaws, like almost completely closed off districts with barely any connection between each other, absolutely zero spaces for pedestrians or, with the lack of any central spaces, any kind of city life and pretty much zero potential to grow and expand naturally.

[@farid6448]

@@Furzkampfbomber Yes and we try to avoid those errors in the new capital city.

[@adamh1991]

What is with the obsession of desert nations to have these water guzzling gigaprojects?

[@pgbrown12084]

Every country on earth uses construction to burn money. The key question is, 'What is the intention behind the project?' For example, in the U.S., the Interstate highway system was a mega-project funded by the government with the intent to pull the country out of the depression and connect the two coasts. Even with this project, there was a ton of waste and construction companies charging the government exorbitant amounts of money to get richer. Many politicians financially benefited from this mega-project. But in Egypt, the intention behind these projects is to "legally" pilfer money from the country and centralize power.

[@mazedabari6438]

End of times. The greed of Arabs to construct lavish exaggerated Buildings projects have been mentioned in Hadiths as a sign of end times.

[@halinaqi2194]

@@pgbrown12084 But what made the government of america choose an interstate highway rather than an interstate railway and construct better walkable cities and public transportation? America was designed to be car centric because of lobbying not because the car was better at transporting people than buses, or trains.

[@6deadbodies]

​@@halinaqi2194America simply can't be compared with Egypt, The US is an exorbitantly rich country having a per capita of 83k dollars, Egypt is merely above 3000 dollars and has many issues related with water and food. They had plenty of issues to deal with rather than making a big ass city in desert

[@Wankeroo]

@@halinaqi2194 its not just lobbying. It's about paranoid individuals wanting to have their own space and safety(much like the motivation for the new capitals). Cars are like little moving castles and public transportation requires tolerance&trust of strangers.

[@pinschrunner]

Thank you for letting us know how the Egyptian people are being pillaged for the sake of the few. Prayers for all of them. Just one question: is the Egyptian central bank just printing fiat money to pay for this project, hyperinflating the price of food and rent and gas and life in general for the people?

[@harryzain]

Malaysia did this by creating a whole new admin capital called Putrajaya just outside of Kuala Lumpur 2 decades ago. At the time also called a vanity project... seemed to have work though. Fully functional now. But Egypt's scale is nuts though, and while the economy is not doing well.

[@SDZ675]

Cairo's an amazing city with tons of rich history and culture. Why anyone would voluntarily switch to the middle of nowhere in the desert with no direct access to water naturally is beyond me.

[@fefe8684]

Overcrowded city

[@fark69]

When you are a dictator who killed the only ever elected leader of a country to rise to power, you probably want to put some distance between yourself and "the masses"

[@Balrog2005]

Cairo is a dystopian nightmare in many ways, too many people and cars, a part there is the danger of new revolutions, that's the main reason to get out and have a nice closed comunity they can call ''new capital''.

[@Drd4all]

Cairo = Sand Central Shithole

[@hihello-yw3ty]

Nowadays cairo became overpopulated ( seveereee demographic problems ) that's why the country has built lots of new cities and places for people. And it's not the first time egypt does this btw ❤🇪🇬

[@Gwanzan3325]

The UAE investors at the beginning of this project makes sense because the whole city sounds like an oil money fever dream. It is pretty wild that even the Emirati backed out.

[@EyesOfByes]

If I were Egypt, I'd pull a "Norway" and fill the dessert with solar power and sell it to Europe

[@copymonet]

This is really well presented and reasearched as far as I can tell. I'm actually surprised. Just one example: many of similar channels don't know that there is an difference between internal and foreign debt.

[@bababababababa6124]

There are some countries that actually built capital cities out of necessity. Ivory Coast, Australia, Brazil and Nigeria did it to centralise government and not give one group all the power. Indonesia is doing it because Jakarta is experiencing many issues. What reason does the Egyptian government generally have for this? All of this money could go towards improving Cairo which already serves as a decent capital. It’s a historic city and is fairly centralised within Egypt. Yes it’s overcrowded, but it’s not like Egypt is short on space like Jakarta is.

[@samuelbarton]

The reason the egyptians are doing this is it's great for corruption, I couldn't think of an easier way of siphoning off funds.

[@YahyaFalcon]

​@@samuelbarton "the egyptians" pretty much universally think this is a horrible idea, "the egyptian government" (which, despite its name, runs almost entirely counter to "the egyptians" interests) are really the only people benefitting from this doomed-from-conception project.

[@om7303]

Easy, the current position of the presidential and government facilities leaves them vulnerable to revolt. This new city is a fortress designed to protect those inside it.

[@mnm5165]

@@samuelbartonyeah it’s pretty obvious that this is just corruption at play. Reminds me a lot of Myanmar’s new capital, but even Myanmar had some good reasons as Yangon wasn’t centrally located in the country

[@joek7080]

they are moving governmental functions further from the people, to protect government from the people

[@Hanstra]

Hearing the line "Back in the 2010's" is horrifying. It feels like just a few years ago... I'm turning old...!

[@Zescht]

Amazing video!

[@TYakouT]

As an Egyptian Youth, It's sad seeing that, people can't eat, the currency is floating, and Power is cut daily for 2 hours+, Keeping lights for no reason in that capital in the desert, the luxurious cities, and military places + the districts that have cops or military families living. like these people are in a higher grade to go through the same rule. But it is what it is, most of the Egyptians are the reason for this to be happening. They see how things are going from worse to worse and still accept the current situation. Even most of the facilities are publicly known to be corrupted. our most famous is bribery (Shay BL-Yasmeen in our slang). Thank you for the video.

[@hifolks7877]

Do you know when this wasteful capital will be completed? I hope that when these big projects are finished, taxes will be reduced and the people will feel some relief..++ Also the Suez canal is closed because of the Houthis/Iran so the Egyptian economy is in crisis. I hope peace comes to the Middle East.

[@hellcy7237]

As a Civ player, you gotta build Petra to have a viable desert city, an aqueduct isn't enough if you're trying to build your government district first. (/s obviously)

[@milliedragon4418]

It's so funny. You mentioned that cuz I was saying that bc I was mentioning that these lame politicians and billionaires should stop playing real world sim city/city skyline and just *play the actual game 😂. Their ideas are even ridiculous from City skyline players.

[@bloom4791]

Fun fact! 60% of Egyptians live near or below the poverty line!!!!!!

[@omarmohamedT]

I don't agree with everything in the video, but I can't believe this video is still up for two weeks. Let's see how long will it survive. Good job.

[@notheotherklaus]

Pharaoh megalomania (look it up) when you consider that Egypt's economy is smaller than that of Denmark with 6 million inhabitants. Can you imagine the conversation: "We are going to build something so ludicrously large and expensive it will never be close to complete? OK, let's get started".

[@Twin.motors]

I mean Egypt has a history of doing this with the pyramids and other incredible builds

[@grizzlywizzly]

@Twin.motors I think that’s their point haha

[@sophiaperennis2360]

@@Twin.motors It's not even remotely the same people, so this comparison is pointless. This has nothing to do with ancient Egypt, it's more of a modern delusion.

[@KotkotKatkot]

Try to build the 1/4 of that city in Denmark and see how it goes?😂 they would not afford building two towers there

[@sorryi6685]

@@Twin.motors But Egypt was richest region then. They were center of trade and learning. They had huge exports.