[lucretian]

  > Basically, Lebanon had 30 years to figure out how to build basic infrastructure like a proper electrical grid and production (from 1990, the end of the civil war to present). Instead, crooks, thieves and fraudsters figured out how to bilk the nation of billions while leaving subpar services in their wake.

This is all true but it also did not help matters that Israel perpetually bombed power plants and related infrastructure in the country over the same period of time.