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HUGE!!! 🚨 BREAKING: state owned QatarEnergy halts LNG production QatarEnergy says it has ceased production of LNG and associated products following military attacks on its operating facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City and Mesaieed Industrial City. The company says it will continue to update stakeholders as more information becomes available. Developing.

تدين وزارة الخارجية والمغتربين بشدة الاعتداءات الايرانية التي استهدفت سيادة وأمن كل من المملكة العربيّة السعوديّة، دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، ومملكة البحرين، ودولة قطر، ودولة الكويت، والمملكة الأردنية الهاشمية. ويعرب لبنان عن تضامنه الكامل مع هذه الدول الشقيقة، مؤكداً رفضه وشجبه لأي انتهاك لسيادتها أو المساس بأمنها وزعزعة استقرارها.

Hala you seem very upset about arguments I didn’t even make. My thread never said Lebanon collapsed only because of Hezbollah but indeed he was the main facilitator. But it’s fascinating how any mention of Hezbollah’s role instantly triggers a defense of everyone else in the system — as if the militia with an army, borders, customs, and an economy of its own is just a minor side character in Lebanon’s tragedy. Lebanon’s tragic collapse has long been understood as the product of an unholy alliance between the militia and the mafia. Let’s clarify a few things since accuracy clearly bothers you: Yes, corruption is real and we call the system mafiocratie. We all know the political ruling class is corrupt. But pretending they operate without the approval, protection, or veto of the only actor holding actual coercive power is… adorable. The shadow economy exists. Smuggling, Captagon, Fuel networks, Generators, Water supply, West Africa laundromats, Dahieh taxation — these aren’t bedtime stories. They’re documented facts that even Hezbollah openly brags about. But sure, let’s pretend none of that affects AML/CFT ratings or correspondent banks. Blaming everything on Western austerity is a classic. Lebanon never had austerity. It had a bloated patronage state financed by debt and fantasy budgets. But if we’re rewriting history, let’s at least do it creatively. Israeli wars destroyed infrastructure (1996-2006), yes. But they didn’t create: – a militia with its own foreign policy, – a parallel security state, – a cash economy the size of Somalia’s, - Captagon trade, - Fuel smuggling, – or a financial system that hid losses for 20 years. These were 100% home-grown. Your argument basically boils down to: No one is responsible — unless someone criticizes Hezbollah, then suddenly everyone else is responsible. A very elegant logic loop. And the personal jab (explains a lot actually)? When someone switches to ad hominem, it usually means the facts were too uncomfortable. My thread was simple: A country cannot survive when a parallel armed state captures its politics, justice, economy, and borders. This is not ideology — it’s textbook political economy. If acknowledging that hurts your narrative, it doesn’t make it less true.