Part of Nasser's speech on the nationalization of the Suez Canal 1956
After nationalization, Britain, France, and Israel attacked Egypt in what became known as the Tripartite Aggression. Britain and France thought they were still great powers and would go and occupy a country like Egypt if it did something they didn't like. But they knew that the era of colonialism was over, and they were getting old, and their borders ended at their own borders in Europe. #local