their best bet was to fire their entire payload at israel at once. there's no way the us could hold all that territory and no way russia and china would let them.  their pussiness lost them this by just sitting back while their ability to wage war was picked off little by little.  same problem as in 1967. the uar had the resources to at least inflict a pyrrhic victory in israel that someone else could have taken advantage of, maybe even win, but instead they did nothing until israel inflicted a preemptive strike that destroyed their air force.
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