Positivity of Coulomb energy for gerenal measures

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Suppose $\nu$ is a compactly supported signed measure in $\mathbb R^{n\geq 3}$.

My question:

Is the Coulomb energy still positive?

More precisely $$\iint \frac{1}{\|x-y\|^{n-2}}d\nu(x)d\nu(y)\geq 0\ ?$$

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Thank you.