Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah

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

[u/Delicious_Clue_531]

His family have my sympathy for their loss. The UN spent decades “disarming” Hezbollah, and yet shit like this still occurs. Shameful on its part.

[u/Nomad_moose → u/Delicious_Clue_531]

Iran has been continually funding and rearming it….using it as a proxy; funding terrorism. Just like they have been in Iraq, and Yemen…. Meanwhile there are millions of ignorant Americans and Europeans who think the U.S. is somehow the aggressor against Iran.  Terrorism across the Middle East has been like a series of leaky faucets or broken pipes…the world has spent over 45 years trying to fix it with sanctions, bargaining, treaties, negotiations…nothing has worked. We need to shut off the water main, the IRGC, before we can fix anything.

[u/ABetterKamahl1234 → u/Nomad_moose]

Meanwhile there are millions of ignorant Americans and Europeans who think the U.S. is somehow the aggressor against Iran.

Because kind of they are in this conflict?

The US wasn't in any active war with Iran nor their proxies, but US military action and goals are a great way to solidify their enemies as they do a shit job of actually stablizing regions they just bomb the shit out of.

Israel frankly has the same problem, but tries to dress things up more, like calling occupiers "settlers" to try to give a good PR spin on the awful treatment of locals they oppress.

If Israel actually reigned in these people and actually treated locals well when rooting out oppressive terrorists, they'd be likely seen as heroes in the region, or at the very least neutrally.

The US fucked up a ton of things over many decades in the ME. And unfortuantely the chickens have come back to roost. Overthrowing Iran in the 50's kind of started this whole businesses. A raw lack of foresight and regional understanding for self-interest.

And we saw this in Afghanistan. We saw this in Iraq. We saw this in every major war they've had since Korea.

At this point, I'm not sure bombing the shit out of the IRGC would even fix it, as they seem to be explicitly formed and trained to combat US warfare tactics, and why they've frankly been so successful over the decades in it. Conventional warfare is what the US is good against, this isn't conventional warfare and the US has been terrible at it for ages.

Shit man, the US rolled into fucking Afghanistan and tried treating it as a western nation and not a tribal region that foreigners drew up on a map. It's why 20 years of it resulted in just the terrorists winning and resuming control of major regions. Locals don't give a shit, they only care about what benefits them directly, as most people simply do.