there's new empires, new ideologies rising in the modern day. trying to revive egypt is as cringe as greece suddenly deciding to larp as byzantium. they're both economic units, who have some modicum of culture from the last century left. that's all they're going to be. they can even be part of making something bigger (pan-arabic caliphate, european union) or be left to the wayside. the choice is their's.
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