US officials believe they can exploit the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah’s disarray to push for the election of a president in Lebanon, according to Axios.

The report echoes the belief among some Lebanese opposition leaders who spoke to Middle East Eye that there is an opportunity to push for the election of a president after the post has been vacant since October 2022.

Under Lebanon’s de facto confessional system, the president of Lebanon must be a Christian.

  • kitnaht@lemmy.world
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    How about stay the fuck out of other nations political systems? Isn’t this basically the same as Russia or China trying to alter ours?

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    Ah yes because the last ten times they did this it totally didn’t backfire and they had everyone else’s future in mind while selflessly giving up a lot of their own.

    Oh wait…