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.
There are some possibilities, however. For example, the only functional part of Egypt left is the military, so when things get too bad, they can set up a military government.
Probably the best thing the military government can do would be to set up massive agricultural projects with lots of hand labor, moving millions of unemployed Egyptians out to the countryside, to live in modest conditions for a year or two as they produce an overabundance of food.
Just having the poverty burden reduced would allow the educated public breathing room to restart their economy.
Oddly enough, Israel might get rid of one of its major problems by helping to subsidize this. That is, if the Egyptians were willing to take the Gaza Paleos, the Israelis could stake the Eqyptians for several billion dollars.
All Egypt would have to do is put Gaza under military administration. No more trouble making by Hamas, and any Paleo who cuts up rough would be hoeing a field near the Nile, under less pleasant management.
And being smart about it, the military would likely restore the pipeline to Israel as well. Even more money for Egypt.