🇱🇧🇺🇸🇮🇱 Lebanon showed up to talks in Washington and did something it hasn't done in decades: spoke for itself. For years, Hezbollah has operated as a state within a state, fighting wars on Iran's behalf while the Lebanese government watched from the sidelines. Lebanon's foreign policy wasn't really Lebanese, it was Tehran's. That's what made this week unusual. By sitting across from Israeli and American officials, the Lebanese government was sending a message: we speak for Lebanon, not Hezbollah. No ceasefire came out of it, no peace deal, but that wasn't really the point. The point was the separation. Lebanon is signaling it wants out of Iran's orbit, that its future gets decided in its own institutions, not in Tehran. Hezbollah rejected the talks entirely, which tells you everything. A process that sidelines their military role is a process that threatens their existence. Source: Now Lebanon
