notorious_eagle
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If I were you, I would not engage with this gentlemen anymore,
He said some of the craziest stuff and then called me an extremist for simply looking up the event without impartial judgement. He is a defender of arab, hence all his view are biased, and if you keep arguing with him, it just went straight into a wall.
You can go with him about 100 post and not going anywhere, because for him, Egyptian did not lose that war, the Egyptian won and just let about 24,000 people die and capture just so Israel can save face lol is what he believe and nothing will change him from deviate from that.
I actually agree with you Sir, no point in engaging @hellfire as our friend has put out some very wild theories.
1973 was an Egyptian defeat by every standards. They failed to accomplish their objectives, the Egyptian Third Army was completely encircled and blocked off from any supplies and the road to Cairo was wide open for an Israeli Armored Assault. The Egyptians failed to build on the momentum they gained in their initial assault, which was quite good in my opinion and their golden moment was smashing the counterattack by the IDF 162nd Division. But than again, when they left the safety of their SAM Umbrellas they were rightly smashed by the IDF and IDAF from every direction. I don't know how Egyptians can claim a victory when they were at the mercy of the Israelis by the end of this war.
Another point i would like to make, which i believe nobody is talking about is the role of the Soviets. I strongly believe the Soviet threats played a bigger role in reigning in the Israelis than the Americans. The Soviets practically forced the Israelis to halt their advance and blackmailed them to let food/medical aid pass through to the Encircled Egyptian Army. The Soviets made their threats very clear when they placed their Airborne Divisions on Alert, and started moving Transport Aircraft to deploy these troops in the region, and on top of that deployed Naval Assets in the Mediterranean with authorization to Open Fire. This was by far the biggest threat to the Israelis, and rightly so they complied.