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German fascists were praised for their ingenuity and the structure they imposed upon liberal society, and Germany even got the Autobahn out of them.

I heard that Italian fascists made the trains run on time, too.

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This sounds like name calling.

Many people are happy to self-identify as German or Italian.

Wait, do you want to seriously study the way that China is able to do the prestige projects you point to, or do you want to ignore the historical patterns that provide evidence of what the reason is that they are able to do them?

And the US was also able to do some impressive projects in the past. Does that say anything about previous governments?

It says that infrastructure accomplishments shouldn't be the sole metric on which nations are measured.

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