This is the IRA vs Thatcher all over again, hopefully it ends better
BREAKING: Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu
was assassinatedhad his life force annexed by Hezbollah, who maintain that he once threw a rock so it was actually "totally super legal"So what up with Hezbollah? Don't really know much about them other than they're blamed for everything by western media
Lebanon was carved out by France out of the Ottoman Middle East as the one bare majority (50%) Christian state - so the Christians got all the important power and property. The Sunnis were number 2, the Shias number 3.
Years later, the Sunni and Shia populations grew, the Christians started emigrating West, but the power was still split in the old way. Cue the Lebanese Civil War + the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah was the party that organized to provide social services and protection to the Shias, since they were the least taken care of by the state. Iran formed a natural alliance with Hezbollah, but they have their own independent base of support.
The Lebanese Civil War was insanely complicated (it included Hezbollah kicking out the US intervention with a suicide bombing), but in the end Israel was forced to withdraw and a more equal power-sharing agreement was reached with power being allotted roughly based on giving each religion a proportional number of seats/offices. However, crucially, anyone can compete for the seats allotted to a religion, so the Shia Hezbollah has Sunni and Christian members who run to represent them in parliament. And because Hezbollah got accepted into government, they've dropped terrorism as a tactic.
As a result, despite Hezbollah being a Shia faction in origin (and allied with theocratic Iran), there's a lot of secular government and cross-religious alliances going on. Plus, Lebanon is a modern and internationally-oriented state in general. So Hezbollah teaches sex ed in their Shia schools, they're not the "terrorist Party of God" you hear about in propaganda.
Thanks to weapons and training from Iran and their origin in fighting against the Israeli occupation and for the Shias in the Civil War, Hezbollah is one of the most powerful armies in the Middle East (at least per capita). In the 2006 war with Israel, they won. They took more casualties, of course, but Israel failed to advance into Lebanon as they wanted, failed to weaken Hezbollah, and took too many casualties and spent too much money for the government to justify fighting on.
In the Syrian Civil War, Hezbollah intervened again - and they won their battles, kept Assad in charge (which means retaining supply routes to Iran), and got more modern fighting experience. They're a real check on the power-projection by Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the US.
Nowadays there are more Muslims than Christians. The Christians outnumber the Sunnis and Shias individually, but the Christians themselves are split between various Catholic and Orthodox sects, so there's no single dominant faction in Lebanon - there's coalitions of political parties. One aligned with Iran, the other with Saudi Arabia and the West. The pro-Iran side has had more power for a long time, but there's a lot of power-sharing, factional fighting, and the government as a whole is weak and unpopular. For instance, a few years back Hezbollah endorsed the protests against the government - despite it being their coalition in charge.
Ha, I guess I didn't explain it too well. Lebanon is a microcosm of the Middle East - lots of tiny moving parts.
In short, Hezbollah is based and full of winners. An enemy of the West allied with Iran, but better (more secular/modern/democratic) than Iran. Shia in origin, but not exclusionary; has Christian and Sunni allies. In Western discourse you'll hear them smeared because they're anti-Israel and super-successfully attacked US soldiers with a suicide bombing, forcing Reagan to evacuate.
Hezbollah formed to liberate Lebanon from Israel's 20 year occupation from 1980-2000
Is this just a quadcopter?
I can imagine just attaching something to one of those and what are you going to do about it? Quadcopter attacks could happen literally anywhere and would be extremely difficult to prevent.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Caracas_drone_attack
I think it’s this one
Fascinating. I saw a video too.
I wonder if they have some sort of tool to jam the radio signal so control cut out for them once within a certain range. Would explain the second drone harmlessly crashing into a building.
I think that is what they said had happened. It didn’t make it because of some radio jamming device that was in place.
I’m not sure where to look but there was a video of Maduro giving a speech. It was pre-Covid.
Anyways as he is talking there is a large explosion off camera in which he ducks and is escorted off the stage. I had read it was a drone with C4 and it detonated to early or his security forces blasted it before it got to him,
London airport got shut down by a single drone being flown by someone for more than 24 hours , and disrupted flights for a further 48hours. They called in the military and the military couldn't do anything about it while sightings were still ongoing.
They never caught the people responsible.
I genuinely think there aren't many things available right now that prevent this.
ren’t many things available right now that prevent this
big. net.
Like.. A man on the ground waving around a butterfly catching net Animal Crossing style? On a really long stick or?
ahahahaha that's a good idea
nah just suspend a net around whatever you're protecting lol. a dude or stage is easy to enmesh
