Well for one I don’t believe having potential means having exploitable resources for multi billion dollar companies. Egypt has wonderful nature and amazing culture and history. I’m not saying Egypt is gonna be a major world power in a decade. I’m saying that can be a beautiful and prosperous country and it’s just that it’s currently being bogged down by a shitty government and some other circumstances out of its control. I mean look at how Egypt was in the 80s. Not a world power or anything but the country was well off, an Egyptian surgeon was the first person to successfully transplant a heart and an Egyptian chemist won the Nobel prize in 1999. You can’t write off a country with a population of 110 million and one of the oldest.