When Hezbollah defeated Israel in 2006, the collective West identified the Syrian state as a major source of arms support for Hezbollah. They recognized that there was no way Israel could defeat Hezbollah in battle, so next best option was to destroy Syrian state via proxy war
On the pivotal role of the Syrian state in strengthening Hezbollah's force capacity in its repulsion of israeli invasion in 2006:
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If the Syrian state had not provided strategic depth to Hezbollah, can you imagine the West working to smash the Syrian state in the 2010s? More likely, if Syria had abandoned Hezbollah and Iran, the West would have taken a Bahrain, rather than Libyan, approach to Syria.
Over the past year, the West continues to identify Syria as a major source of Hezbollah's capacity to sustain a long war of attrition. So we can see how the destruction of the Syrian state remains a major objective of those seeking to re-establish Israel's military superiority
"This resupply is easier than in the past, as Iran’s presence in Syria expanded considerably after Tehran came to the rescue of the Syrian regime when civil war broke out after 2011, creating a land bridge that enables weapons to go from Iraq to Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon."
So, at minimum you should be asking questions as to how the fighting in Aleppo emerges immediately after a ceasefire in Lebanon. Could this again be a ploy to destroy a key source of Hezbollah's capacity to re-arm, as was the Western objective after 2006?
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