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The paranoid ones say the West have interests here. The West say they have interests here. Be it so or otherwise - apathy is large - it is true they always seek local partners.

However, just like explaining to kids in my late-in-life driving class when asked whether I respected the police - it is indeed boyish and immature to think they seek the best individuals. They communicate with the ones in any position of power. In any society with any corruption, the obvious consequence is that 10 years after, even the worst candidate able to gain experience is a better candidate.

But is the last premise so foolproof? Admittedly, if you e.g. run a project for the first time (isn't my example so hip?) - you shall run into the usual pitfalls. But my claim is you shall also produce the expected results; why, they even follow a methodology, imagine.

In a world that cannot afford more of the same, it would be useful to try hiring decision makers in pairs: a scarred one with advisory and veto powers, and the bright and almost innocent one with executive powers, whose job would be the much hallowed thinking outside the box.

If I seem puerile, let me offer a joke. Moscow has just celebrated something with a military parade. They had soldiers in WWII uniforms marching alongside their contemporary colleagues. My favourite paper say: with their WWIII peers.