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| 'Trump is crazy': Hezbollah sees threat in US president's final days |
| 2020-12-21 |
| [Guardian] For the past four years, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has fought a war in Syria, supported Iraqi forces and stage-managed the politics of its homeland, all the while trying to avoid facing off with Israel. Yet its exhausted leaders fear the last gasps of Donald Trump’s presidency could deliver threats that eclipse everything else. In the organisation’s heartland, Hezbollah members are watching the clock — and the skies. Israeli jets have been streaking overhead for more than a month, and over the past few weeks the frequency of flights has sharply increased, as has security in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the nerve centre of the region’s most powerful militant group. Leaders and senior members fear that Trump, his outgoing secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and Israel intend to use the weeks before Joe Biden’s inauguration to act decisively against Iran and Hezbollah before the new president takes a widely anticipated softer stance. "They’ve got their window and they want to finish what they started, said one mid-ranking Hezbollah group. "But don’t worry, the Sayyid [the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah] is safe." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Let them keep thinking Trump is crazy; it can work for us. Hezbollah calling someone crazy is outside most people's Overton Window. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-12-21 09:41 |