lol, "a rogue NATO power." Well played ya basha.
That's a perfect description. Only problem is we are outnumbered by their representatives who with the exception of a few decent ones, have the posting mentality of a bull in a China shop. And they get away with it because they have unsolicited support from the forum nation members in general. It'll be a bloodbath of insults, chest thumping nationalism of the most brutal kind and would quickly tank from a civilized discussion into a filthy mud pit fight. Not exactly what I inspire to participate in bsara7a.
I would tend to agree with you on this meya meya. I'm waiting to see if there will be any pressure coming from the Israelis once the results of the operations are clear and things mellow out to a certain extent that they might come out full force with a push-back to the old status or the 3 zones demarcation. That could very well happen but I think it will only be diplomatic pressure. I don't think they want to start a fight like they used to. Things are much different now.
I would think hitting the new nuclear reactor in Egypt, a signatory of the NTP and a customer of civilian nuclear energy is a completely different story than hitting the camel shack in Syria.
Let's say by the wildest stretch of their imagination that they even thought of attempting such a silly thing, we would hope they remembered how many of their aircraft were falling like flies in 1973, and Egypt ADS is on a completely different level these days. The other thing would be how well prepared is the ADS to face ballistic missiles. This is why the S-300 needs to be supplemented big-time. We have so many more vital targets in our country than they do, which does put us at a disadvantage for sure.