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Egypt Is Just A Harbinger Of What Is Coming

The chaos in the Mideast will ramp up form here as it is now the all out battle between Sunni and Shiia

By Joel Ross | Updated on August 18, 2013

For months I have been warning that the Mideast is about to explode and there will be ramifications to US real estate. Now we are there. While it is highly likely that the Egyptian army will prevail, and the Muslim Brotherhood will be crushed, the turmoil will not suddenly stop. They will likely go back to and underground battle for many years, terrorist tactics and continued threats to other governments in the area. What we are seeing in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the whole of North Africa, is nothing less than the ultimate war of Sunni vs Shiia, and Iran vs the monarchies and Israel. This is the final stage of the Islamists vs the secularists and the Sunni. Unfortunately Obama and Hilary have never understood what is really occurring and chose to sit it out and lead from behind. We did not have boots on the ground in Libya so now we have terrorists throughout the region obtaining advanced weapons from the Libyan stockpiles we should have seized. They did not protect the CIA base in Benghazi, so the agents who were trying to scoop up many of these weapons had to flee.

What does all this have to do with you and real estate. Oil prices. Terrorism in Europe and maybe here. This is an existential battle for the Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. The final battle with Iran is nearing, and Israel knows it cannot count on Obama so there is a real wildcard of an Israeli attack on Iran in the next 6 to 12 months using very advanced weapons and then the ultimate battle in the Mideast will be fought. There is no way to know how this may spread, how long oil will be shut down, and no way to know what other impacts on capital markets it will have. Investors here have continued to just ignore the region as though it makes no difference. It matters to you. Pay attention.

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