What if the United Arab Republic continues its? "alternative history"

What if the United Arab Republic can continue and become a superpower that is being negotiated with the Russians and the United States?
 
Impossible. The League of Arab States is the closest any of them could come to unity. Any more centralized than that and the whole thing falls apart (as Nasser discovered).
 
Yeah especially since they are separated by a hostile like Israel. Maybe try getting Jordan and Iraq to join by recognizing the Hashimites
 
There are many problems with "Arab unity". First off there are the religious divisions within Islam of which Sunni/Shi'a are only the most well known. Then there are the issues of what do you do with "racial" Arabs like the Copts and Druze who are religiously outliers. There are also regional animosities - Arabs of region/country "A" have feelings about those of region/country "B" (they're lazy or pushy or uppity or whatever). Finally, and perhaps most importantly since none of these countries do more than lip service to public desires except when forced, who gets to be the boss? Somebody has to be the president/premier/caliph or whatever, and none of the Arab leaders have ever shown any tolerance for being other than number one. Perhaps this is in part because local number ones tend to make sure that any popular number twos (or threes or fours) never get a chance to be number one. Finally some Arab countries have a high per capita GDP because of low populations and oil revenue, others much much lower due to large populations and no oil (compare Kuwait and Egypt for example) - so in a "unified" Arab polity, following the money.
 
What if the United Arab Republic can continue and become a superpower that is being negotiated with the Russians and the United States?

To become a superpower the UAR would have to get control over the arab oil producing states, notably Libya and the KSA. And unlike Saddam later, it would have to do it a subtle way, like engineering coups to get rid of monarchs prior to "voluntary" unification with Egypt. The UAR might well have succeeded with this in Libya, KSA would've been tougher if possible at all.
 
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