“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51
“Under President Sissi, Madbouly has become one of the main pillars of the realisation of the regime’s ambitious vision for the development of infrastructures and grandiose urban projects, and it’s just too bad if these are carried out at the expense of social justice and the rights of the poor.”
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