Would Soviet support for Egypt automatically bring intervention?

Would the Soviet Union intervene if Egypt pushed too far against Israel and faced an outside response?

Soviet backing is treated as limited, with automatic intervention rejected in this counterfactual.

The follow-up rejects the idea that Moscow would necessarily intervene on Egypt's behalf after further escalation. It gives this as a brief counterfactual judgment about the limits of backing an ally, without a detailed account of Soviet decision-making.