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And of course, Iran has also done that in retaliation, but proportionally still more than Americans and Israelis has polluted, like I forgot the number, but like the equivalent of like 84 countries combined.

in terms of the toxins released in the air.

These are things that people in Iran are breathing in.

And the entire region relies on desalination plants.

And the Americans bombed one in Iran.

Iran retaliated and bombed another one in Bahrain.

If that continues, who knows?

There's been increasing attempts, not just attempts, actual strikes, including just yesterday, against nuclear facilities or close enough to nuclear facilities.

So who knows what would happen then?

To say it's out of control would be like meaningless at this point, but there are levels of where this can go.

And Lebanon is in a sense like deceivingly small.

There's a book called Beware of Small States that talks about Lebanon because a lot of the world is happening in Lebanon, to kind of put it maybe metaphorically.

And the trends that are being done to the Lebanese or to people in Lebanon, like the Doha doctrine in 2006, was then used in Gaza, obviously.

And now they're saying that they're going to use the Gaza methodology in Lebanon.

So it's like it came back to Lebanon in a sense.

But the point is that this will continue.

There is no objective reason to believe that

If Hezbollah is destroyed and completely disarmed and what have you, that this problem is going to go away because if anything, a new beast of some kind is going to be created in the fires in the same way that Hezbollah was created in the initial ones.

And so, yeah, the problem ultimately, and I say this as someone who has been campaigning, writing, gotten death threats from Hezbollah supporters in 2019, when I was part of the protest, we were beaten up by them.

This comes from no sympathy whatsoever towards them.