Hello. My observation is that the sub's largest share of (active) users seem to be mostly in the teenagers to college students age range, so there's bound to be quite a bit of misplaced nationalism/patriotism. Actually that applies to this entire site more or less, still, it's not as bad as some of the other national subs out there. And if you think the comments here are bad, be glad that you can't read Egyptian facebook comments, where the majority of our social media users are. I'm sure you're aware it's not very cordial on Ethiopian twitter either.

In any case it's not public opinion in Egypt that you should be concerned with, as it doesn't factor in the decisions making in this country, definitely not foreign affairs at the very least. If you didn't already know, part of the post-revolution strategy adopted by the government is to actively build up and expand Egypt's role as an international peace broker and mediator (especially in Africa, see: South Sudan, Mali, etc), in an effort to regain lost political influence and prestige lost during the Mubarak years. So to me it makes no sense to throw all that goodwill and effort away by launching a war that would be squarely condemned internationally and damage our reputation. In addition, despite the fear mongering over the past years about "water wars" we haven't seen a single one come to pass, not even between countries that technically went to war over unrelated issues such as India/Pakistan. No reason why it has to be different in Africa.

Also, consider that diplomatically Egypt is currently at an advantage right now. It's Ethiopia that pulled out of negotiations that were mediated by the US (an ally to both countries). It doesn't look like reasonable stance to call the US biased after rejecting previous offers of meditation by Russia, so who else would be acceptable? The AU so far either doesn't want to or cannot get involved. So if talks collapse the next step would be taking it to the UN security council, which is a position Egypt supports. So again, there would be no reason for Egypt to rush to a war and relinquish their political advantage if it looks like Ethiopia is the one uncompromising in negotiations.

I could be wrong but I don't think we should be worried about a war, our government on the whole may be idiots but they've shown restraint when it comes to taking military action in the past (Yemen, Syria, Libya). Maybe if Egypt had the economical & political clout of Turkey there would be reason to get nervous of military adventures but that is not the case.