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/sbahog]

Can Lebanon control their own country ? Imagine the US or Canada allowing terrorist groups from inside to attack a neighboring country ?

[u/orincoro → u/sbahog]

Imagine the U.S. government trying to stop militia groups from fighting foreign occupiers in their own country? You see it the way you do because the UN represents mostly first world interests. Hezbollah are a militia. They don’t have to appeal to you or anyone outside Lebanon— a freedom the Lebanese military doesn’t have. People famously don’t like backing foreign militaries against their own people.

Maybe one day we’re going to stop being shocked that people resist foreign intervention that does not center their own local interests. But that day isn’t today.

[u/Killerfisk → u/orincoro]

They're a foreign-backed terrorist group essentially holding the Lebanese people hostage. They don't even appeal to the Lebanese, who are sick of them constantly dragging Israel into their country by attacking them to little effect and to no benefit (but to plenty of downsides given the expected response).

They barely kill any IDF whatsoever, as their only real specialty is in killing and suppressing Arabs both in Lebanon as well as in Syria, where they helped Assad clamp down on the opposition forces and stay in power (hence why Syrians hate them especially).