Chronicle of a surrendering state - L'Orient Today
Key Takeaways
- Lebanon's political power no longer controls its fate; armed actors negotiate.
- Those who hold and command weapons will be the ones who negotiate.
- A tent of a displaced resident along Beirut's sea underscores displacement.
Lebanon political collapse
Three weeks already.
Three weeks have been enough to shatter the last illusions and reveal, with undeniable clarity, the scale of the political collapse into which Lebanon has fallen, to the point of losing any real ability to control its own fate.
Nature of current conflict
What is unfolding today, this latest war we are living through, is neither an accident nor an unpredictable drift,
but rather the culmination of a long process marked by the systematic avoidance of necessary decisions and a persistent inability to face the concrete implications of restoring sovereignty.
External actors
Admittedly, this war was imposed on Lebanon from the outside, by two belligerents paradoxically united in their desire to destroy the country.
Displacement evidence
The tent of a displaced resident erected along Beirut's seafront area early on March 19, 2026.
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