Interesting. Certainly once you are up there it makes a lot of sense. Who cares about the radiation it spews, as you'll get a lot more rads just from cosmic rays than that shit could ever emit.
Russkies like the situation like it is, and both the Egyptians and Turks are irredentists. I see the Russian angle here -- if they just let the chips fall and let this become a full on war between Turkey and Egypt, it'd be a bonanza for US arms...but with Russian intermediation it's a fertile ground for their contractors.
