Justin Salhani: I can’t tell you how many interviews I have with westerners who say things like maybe the solution for Lebanon is to match certain aspects of UAE or KSA & you know they mean installing a dictator. Those leaders are a plague on their own people and us as well.

I can’t tell you how many interviews I have with westerners who say things like maybe the solution for Lebanon is to match certain aspects of UAE or KSA & you know they mean installing a dictator. Those leaders are a plague on their own people and us as well.

Globalizing the intifada should mean shaking off all dictators

this also hits deeper as I read Ashis Nandy. I've heard many in Lebanon and the wider region say we need dictators to come in and sort us out. We've been conditioned to think Dubai and KSA are the future, that MBZ & MBS are what is needed and not a plague on our democratic development

Some people can’t understand that a ‘benevolent dictator’ is literally impossible.

Colonial logic never changes

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