Seriously, it would almost take an act of God to prevent utter chaos in Egypt in the short term. 80 million people, only 40 million of which have enough money to buy food, mostly imports that the country can no longer afford. 8 million of them have Hepatitis C.
And starving people are worse than a hundred swarms of locusts.
There is no place for Egyptian refugees to go, as there is only one road into Libya, that the Libyans will quickly block (otherwise impassable desert). North Sudan can take precious few, and it is already descending into a Sharia state.
BHO2 is an atheist and communist. He is only Muslim or Christian when politcally advantagious.
What he has done, via the “Arab Spring”, is use radical Islamists to destroy whatever emerging markets existed in north Africa.
I believe he did this in order to set those nations on a path to anarchy. The goal: eventual takeover by Russia.
What isn’t broadly known by the western public is that Egypt, once the breadbasket of Rome and Byzantium, is now a net importer of food. That nation sold natural gas to Israel in order to buy food on the global market, and now that the Muslim Brotherhood has stupidly axed that contract, Egypt will have no cash to buy food.
“...starving people are worse than a hundred swarms of locusts.”
Yes, very true.
Millions of Egyptians will starve in the next 2 years, if not the next 12 months. Long before that, Egypt will be at war with Israel. It will end badly for Egypt as well as other nations in the ME.
Why do so many of them have Hep C? It’s not that easy to catch, are lots of them homosexuals or mainline drugs? Or is it just re-using needles for medical use?
According to this site http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dewolfe/Epidemic.html the prevalence is even higher and the spread is mainly due to use of non-sterile equipment at hospitals and at the dentist, using the same latex gloves for more than one patient etc.