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In 1954, the United Kingdom withdrew its 80,000 strong garrison from the Suez Canal in an attempt at rapproachment with Cairo (this effort would ultimately fail).

2 short years later, Egypt seized and nationalized the canal (previously held by a joint Anglo-French corporation), in what was pretty much the culmination of a few years' turn towards the USSR. The Suez War followed, Egypt got curbstomped, and the US forced a return to status quo ante bellum. The rest is history.

What if, however, the UK had taken a harder line with Egypt, refusing to remove their garrison from the site? A lot of the results will, I assume, be pretty similar to the previously done "US lets UK, France, and Israel keep Suez War winnings", but not everything (critically, Egypt maintains control of Gaza in this scenario...at least for now).
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