Longer term context the Suez canal seems like a pretty deliberate effort to marginalise a large portion of the African continent, and given the timing of construction in relation to similar domination attempts in Africa and worldwide, I'd be interested in digging the financials etc, were they not more pressing issues presently

Oh too, real "good guys" would have more reverence and solemnity than to draw a dick and balls on the way to conduct the kind of human rescue operation being suggested in some quarters on this board.