Eden infuriated US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, by his lack of consultation, and Eisenhower refused to back the invasion. Another of Eisenhower's concerns was the possibility of a wider war with the Soviet Union after it threatened to intervene on the Egyptian side. Eisenhower applied financial leverage by threatening to sell US reserves of the British pound and thereby precipitate a collapse of the British currency. Bíótilẹ o jẹ pé ogun ti Nasser ti ṣe aṣeyọri ni agbara ologun rẹ, idaabobo ti US ni agbara ti ko ni agbara ati fi agbara mu Ilu Gẹẹsi lati ṣe onimọ-ẹrọ ikọlu Israeli lori Egipti ti yoo fun Britain ati France ni ẹri lati ṣe iranlọwọ ni ologun ati ki o gba ikanni naa pada. (1961), Margaret Thatcher ṣe apejuwe awọn iṣẹlẹ ti orilẹ-ede Gẹẹsi ti o ti kọlu awọn orilẹ-ede miiran ti ko le ṣe ohunkohun lati ṣe aṣeyọri lẹhin idaabobo Suez ni Oman, eyiti o ṣe afihan pe o ti jẹ aṣeyọri, ati ni awọn iṣẹlẹ miiran ti o jẹ ki awọn oludari ilu Gẹẹsi ko le ṣe nkankan lati ṣe
Ààrẹ orílẹ̀-èdè Amẹ́ríkà Dwight D. Eisenhower,