The perfect example is the paranoid ethnostate in the middle east.

You say that, but are they wrong?

Close. There was a geobarrier that he refused to remove. Because attacks against Russia are aggression.

I was reading about one where the oil was contaminated with some truly terrible shit, dioxin maybe? Several people died. They turned that whole area into a Superfund site.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri