No Aswan Dam

[Ricardolindo]

What if Nasser had decided not to build the Aswan Dam, building instead a smaller dam? This means the Suez Canal wouldn't be nationalized as Nasser nationalized it in order to get money to build the Aswan Dam. That means the Suez Crisis doesn't happen.

 

[Japhy]

How, exactly, do you think a smaller dam can be built on the Nile? And why should Nasser or any Egyptian Government have continued to allow Britain and France to own and operate the Canal? The loan refusals helped set into motion Nationalization, but the conflict that was it being controlled by the Colonial Powers existed beforehand.

 

[Ricardolindo]

How, exactly, do you think a smaller dam can be built on the Nile?

There was already a smaller dam since 1902.

And why should Nasser or any Egyptian Government have continued to allow Britain and France to own and operate the Canal? The loan refusals helped set into motion Nationalization, but the conflict that was it being controlled by the Colonial Powers existed beforehand.

Before the nationalization, Nasser had already signed an agreement for a gradual handover of the Suez Canal.

 

[Japhy]

There was already a smaller dam since 1902.



Before the nationalization, Nasser had already signed an agreement for a gradual handover of the Suez Canal.

So what is the point of building another smaller dam? How does that give Egypt the water and energy it needed?

And why should a handover have been gradual? Why should London and Paris have been allowed to keep influencing Egyptian politics though that control?

Why wouldn't Egypt try to make it's own destiny instead of being a neocolonial outpost? Especially when it was being lead by a Nationalist, Anti-Colonial Regime?