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Something interesting that ties both Turkey and Egypt together.
Both have performed very poorly in the Bloomberg Misery Index.
It's one of many branded indexes that tries to gauge relative economic activity, such as Economist's Big Mac Index(relative purchasing power of local currency to buy a McD's Big Mac).
The Misery Index tries to measure relative economic misery for citizens in respective countries.
Turkey and Egypt are not performing well.
Add in bordering failed states, the battle between islamism/secularism, Game of Thrones like power struggles, and existential water crisis in Egypt's case, and you have a recipe for a runaway explosion not too different from the big smoking crater in Beirut right now.
At some stage, stability at all costs, may become the preferred option by most.
Which would make it the world's biggest boom and seller's market for small arms ammunition, kinetic drones, and social media surveillance tech.
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