afaik hezbolla controls lebanon? what difference does this if this is just some useless paper and doesn’t mean much if they cant actually control the country militaryly and politcally. i know its basically a declaration of being a us vassal, and for sure complicates things further in lebanon but it seem like a shooting themselves in the foot. lebanese people are not fond at all of the supremacist entity, this seems like it will provide (good) regime change in the country.
Hezbollah parliament members have declared that this new agreement renders the internationally-recognized government illegitimate. This is theoretically sound, too. I don’t think any compradors in recent memory (ever?? I don’t want to make sweeping statements that miss some horrifying Cold War event that slipped by me tho) have gone this far to subvert the sovereignty of their nation.
As far as military control, I believe Hezbollah forces are strongest in the south. I’d ask Lebanese journalists on Xitter. They’re chatty
i have a lebanese friend and they told me that the comprador government essentially has no military control compared to Hez, i think they have police forces but not confront Hez in armed conflict
Yeah they basically exist because the nation has no army. You’ll find the occasional nutjob (Mossad? never know) insisting the Lebanese army is stronger but this is generally framed through their collaboration with the IDF to crush Hezbollah. Even if the Lebanese army was completely on board with that, it’s obviously insane, but I have also heard that from Lebanese people, that the army is not even consistently like that & many of them are too sympathetic to Hezbollah to ever actually fight them. Probably depends on the region & I’d imagine the army is trying to keep track of that “problem” internally & taking it into account when deploying it to suppress pro-Hezbollah protestors
