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Salma Makhlouf's avatar

Totally agree with you, but I’d like to add that the “Third-Worldist Declinism” phenomenon is not only limited to “critics” of superpowers, it also appears in “critics” of powerful people/institutions within any state; Can’t find a job? Blame the state, it should be reformed. Someone is wealthy? It must be corruption.. This mindset of projecting personal failures onto the authority or the wealthy is a cancer in every society.

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Yannick Deza's avatar

Beautifully written!

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Pierre Levy's avatar

🫡

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Bernard's avatar

Wow!

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Charles Boespflug's avatar

Un tour de force Zineb!

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