Seems you could have sought monetary grants from a few multi-billion dollar Arab nations to refurbish them for refugee housing and calmed your cities down.
Over the next three years, more than 9,000 workers erected a 2.7-mile-long building out of brick and concrete. Its practicality was dwarfed by its grandness. Moorhouse calls it "megalomania in stone."
Seems you could have sought monetary grants from a few multi-billion dollar Arab nations to refurbish them for refugee housing and calmed your cities down.