my feeling was that egypt was too stable. i believe that the us state department thought that was a risk during 2000-2015 that the eu was going to supplant the us as the global hegemon. thus it started a series of destabilizing actions on the natural borders of the theoretical european superstate; arab spring, war on terror, ukraine, and culminating in the brexit movement. which emboldened euro skeptic movements in the rest of the highly developed constituent nations.
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