Good article, it really is exactly like that here. An imperial outpost, heavily exploited both before and after its liberation from the Ottomans, a whorehouse of a country that survives as the West's dock, military base, and "exotic" retreat for rich people who will get each of their disgusting desires taken care of, and once in a while its used for its propagandistic value as the birth of "Western Civilization". Of course the reactionaries within it also chug that Kool Aid and think that they have more in common with Hans who was slaughtering their grandparents some generations ago than they do with Mohammed that arrives here running away from the bomber planes that take off from the NATO bases that occupy our land. That admiration from the West doesn't last long, they always come back wagging their fingers at the workers saying that they're lazy and don't pay enough tax money to be funnelled to Europe, never mind the fact that working 8 hours here is a lucky minority.