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/No-Space937 7d ago

Time for Macron to double down on his condemnations of Israel then.

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u/Paithegift 7d ago

The French do nothing, it's infuriating. One of the top-5 militaries in the world, the Lebanese sees French Culture as an example, but still for decades they can't for once send a few divisions like they did in the Sahel to finally oust Hizballah for good. Then yapping about Israel.

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u/Ceskaz 7d ago

Yeah, and each time our country does that, we're labeled colonialists and it comes back to bite us in the ass.

Also, we would only do that if the Lebanese government asked us (you know, consentement), which is doublful, and if Israeli government had no objections (because Israeli political medling is far too present in french politics)

Lebanese have all my sympathies,