Or they could, like their predecessors, plot and plan for a couple of generations and wage a disinformation campaign to get a future generation to covertly reverse the reversal.
/shrug
https://archive.org/details/gloryofbyzantium0000unse/mode/1up?view=theater
https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%2Agypt%29%20AND%20date%3A%5B1830-01-01%20TO%201945-01-31%5D