A nation must think before it acts.
Senior Fellow Eric Trager
Those differences angered Riyadh, prompting a temporary suspension of aid to Egypt earlier this year.
In the end, Saudi Arabia “did not get the foreign policy changes it wanted [from Egypt] in return for its generous support,” Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy said. “The Saudis have learned to live with limited Egyptian involvement in Yemen,” he added.