Controversial football World Cup: The World Cup begins - and Qatar wants to impress the world. Of splendor and megalomania in the desert state

Ambition is a thunder.

Controversial football World Cup: The World Cup begins - and Qatar wants to impress the world. Of splendor and megalomania in the desert state

Ambition is a thunder. A banging. A crash that makes the street tremble as if a giant were jumping through the street canyons. The noise echoes from the glass facades of the Marriott and the Wyndham, moving on to The W and the Kempinski, up and up Diplomatic Street - two miles of bright granite, lit at night by searchlights in their Light the jackhammers and excavators working against the clock and luxury limousines trying their way home. A stage of winners. And the loser. Depending on where you look from.

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