Can Lebanon function better without a state?

For the last six years, Lebanese society has survived without functioning state institutions and even without banks. If anything, the state has, in the past decade, been more of a liability than an asset. The country’s economic and financial collapse was largely due to the dysfunctional state accumulating debt, draining resources and refusing to acknowledge any responsibility. If anything has been achieved since, it was despite the state, not thanks to it.

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