Macron Says New Approach Needed to Deal with Lebanon Crisis
French President Emanuel Macron said Thursday that a new "approach" is needed to deal with the Lebanese crisis.
Macron, who visited the country twice last year, has been pushing Lebanese politicians to break the stalemate over forming a government.
"We will have to, in the coming weeks ... change the approach, the methods," he said, without elaborating.
"We must do everything to avoid the collapse of the country and therefore accelerate the formation of a new government and the needed reforms," Macron added.
19 March 2021, 02:07
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No such thing as avoiding the collapse. Lebanon is IN the collapse event right now. The question should be how to rebuild Lebanon from the collapse, an Iranian proxy state, or an independent country clearing that should be the first question.
19 March 2021, 05:31
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The disintegration of Lebanon as an entity is being completed by our politicians. They prefer a country mired in chaos desperate and weak. How else can they govern us if we were not on our knees?
19 March 2021, 16:17
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Le President, you really think a new approach will work? Why are you wasting your time. Apparently you did not get the message from last where they all sat with you and listened to you and as soon as you waked out the door they started laughing at you and saying look at this idiot trying to tell us how to run our mini mafais. Let it go till it completely collapse then suggest making Lebanon an overseas territory an appoint a French governor if you really care and want to save it.
20 March 2021, 00:27
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As long as Hezbollah is in Lebanon, nothing will improve and the country might as well be just another province of Iran. The corruption will continue, they will never get an IMF loan, the causes of their economic failure will remained buried the same way the port blast was just swept under the rug. Aoun and Diab are just complicit puppets of Hezbollah and Hariri won't risk making any changes that would offend Hezbollah and risk himself suffering the same fate as his father. Hezbollah has more military power than the Lebanese army. They won't be voted out of power and they have the means to keep themselves there. I don't see anything short of civil war driving them out.
