No one with the vision to dredge a harbor? No one with the testicles to invade Egypt or Libya and take over their resources?
“No one with the vision to dredge a harbor?”
That would allow them to get goods ashore. How would they move them inland?
“No one with the testicles to invade Egypt or Libya and take over their resources?”
Takes more than that to move an army across the Sahara.