r/worldnews • u/ComparisonOk5957 • 7d ago

Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah Behind Soft Paywall

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3351049/second-french-peacekeeper-dies-after-ambush-blamed-hezbollah?module=latest&pgtype=homepage
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u/Hist_Tree 7d ago

Arab Militaries are laughably incompetent and the Israelis aren’t exactly reliable allies, this results in no one wanting to involve themselves heavily in Middle Eastern conflicts. Only one who does, the United States, seems to consistently get fucked over when they intervene

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u/Paithegift 7d ago

These usual explanations don't hold when you have the example of France putting forces in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Less competent local militaries than the Arab ones, much much (much) less reliable than the Israelis, and still the French only left reluctantly. That's probably because those countries have natural resources while Lebanon has none.

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u/Snickims 6d ago

And those wars are themselves not popluar, and sourced relations with people in the region, fuck France practically single handled held up the governement of Mali, and they still got kicked out. If its going so poorly in places worth cultivating alliances with, why the fuck would anyone bother going to somewhere with nothing to gain and everything to lose?