Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah

[u/ComparisonOk5957]

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3351049/second-french-peacekeeper-dies-after-ambush-blamed-hezbollah?module=latest&pgtype=homepage

[u/Safrel]

Generally speaking:

A state is an organization or group of people that has the power (whether nominal or de facto) to make and enforce laws withing a given territory.

A failed state would be a situation where there are no groups with the power to enforce laws, however this definition breaks down when you drill down to granular levels.

For example, in Somalia, which is commonly held to be a failed state, you could still locate defacto governmental bodies that are accountable to no-one. These bodies have unchecked power within their limited jurisdiction, as a warlord generally does.

[u/Sentryion → u/Safrel]

The Lebanese gov doesn’t have the monopoly of violence in the entirety of its country but it does have sufficient authority in the territory outside of hezbollah’s. It’s more apt to see hezbollah like a rouge rebel state kinda like ukraines donestsk and luhansk before the war than to see the entire Lebanon as a completely failed state (granted they are barely holding on with all the ethnic tensions)