There are no spontaneous revolutions. Popular anger needs coordination, channeling, resources.
No outsider would have dared trouble the waters in a place like Egypt. The US would have eventually found out and the whole thing become a casus belli.
The security apparatus in a place like Egypt could have put down any manifestation in a matter of hours. The Egyptian Army must have been in.
If all goes well, Capitalism gets a new lease on life, long live democracy for capital!
Meanwhile, the West should hold together, yet the US will re-discover (the virtues of) nylon.