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non-aligned movements, economic development, foreign bases, yeah. That's kind of the point: if you read that article they'll point out that Turkey is building bases in Egypt, too, and Libya is in a disputed civil war. So you've got Turkey/Russia, Egypt/Whoever, Ethiopia/China, US/Saudi Arabia and I mean, nobody's talked to the Janjaweed in a few years. Plus we've got water rights, oil, coffee, shipping... the region could become a veritable 7-layer dip of instability. I mean, fuckin' al-Sisi has been in office less time than Nikki Haley was. Frankly, Ethiopia is a country. You knock it over too hard and suddenly you're dealing with warlords. Which is already the situation to Egypt's west.