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dutch777

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1. Unless this is a coup that overrides the power sharing agreement, the gridlock and ineptitude of the government...
Thu Jan 9, 2025, 01:50 PM
Jan 9

...will likely remain. There is so little agreement on most anything among the parties to the defined power sharing agreement,
Lebanon is basically a failed state. Hezbollah and other sects will play the game on the ground their way with little to no meaningful control by anything that pretends to be "the government". And the Lebanese people will continue to suffer and largely be ignored by the powers that be, domestic and foreign. I wonder if at any point the UN might actually consider getting in the Nation Building business as the list of failed or near failed states gets longer and longer and the ills that spawns negatively affects more and more people?

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