They already found hezbo lah tunnels under the blast site
Edit: I would add this is a developing story and not yet fully proven. For those asking for a source, the army denies the claim yet here is Sky news showing a breached subterranean ceiling
It wasnt just the CP it was masses of pissed off citizens, I would be too. Note they occupied govt buildings instead of looting their local stores. Their government has been corrupt and dysfunctional since before their civil war
No. It would be the Republican party that would quit after falling victim to a DNC false flag.
Its takes fuel, oxidizer and an initiator to detonate that material. It just doesnt 'splode because its burning. It take a hefty shockwave & containment to detonate.
Ammonium Nirtrate is stored in bulk in the U.S. and all over the world. This was not an accident.
Amazing, isnt it?
TFW the Democrats are LESS culpable and ashamed than the Hezbollah monsters that allowed an explosion 20% as large as Hiroshima.
Dems know 130 deaths in an instant is a tragedy, but millions of babies and thousands of inner city murders is a statistic. Stalin, eat your shriveled, black heart out.
Thats true, but they the communists are an organised bunch among largely unorganised masses. Once they succeed the organised groups will find it easier to grab power while the unorganised people dissolve away. This is what usually happens in riots. The only time the communists get fucked over are when organised muslim groups protest along with them. In Egypt the leftists student protests got hijacked slowly by Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi came into power.
Found the researcher/history buff. A lot of people skip over the complex details of the situation like what we have here, now. It's old hat tactics, but largely because it works. Dupe enough normal people with simplistic messages to join along and run cover (BLM). In the end, tho, they always cut out the useful idiots.
Shit, China, Cambodia, Vietnam. The killing Fields is a much watch/read story. Shows what comes after the takeover, which is usually hidden/unknown when they control media and foreign access.
Everyone needs to admit this was the first thing you thought of.
Your primitive instincts communicate every day, what matters is how they translate to your thoughts and feelings. Unease when in an awkward situation, that eye contact magnetism when you are being watched, the slimey sensation as you listen to Hillary Clinton speak are ALL remnants of your primitive mind and cognitive mind coexisting.
The largest explosion in history doesnt just "happen inadvertently". Normal procedure in a catastrophe would be to isolate blame on on or few to minimize political/social fallout. How the entire administration will be replaced should terrify every god fearing, freedom loving American.
The administration has flushed out so many of those leakers. They've also fed them disinformation continually. That's evident in the constantly degrading condition of fake news.
They never realize that Trump knows more than them whenever he says things like this. He has access to information that nobody else on the planet does, but they always try to make it seem like he doesn't know what he's talking about. Let us dispel this notion that he doesn't know what he's talking about. President Trump knows exactly what he's talking about.
On the other hand, I could easily imagine that his generals are getting itchy after 3.5 years of no new wars and could be hoping for an excuse to get crank up the military machine again.
Who is taking over the region, and is an enemy of Israel? That's who stands to gain, and who is behind this. Or if it really is an innocent accident, who will be positioning themselves to profit from the situation.
If you see Israel "annexing" Lebanon, do let me know.
It's not that simple, neither are you entirely wrong. In 1913 with the creation of the Fed they got a toehold on world domination. Communism isn't really their goal though, and neither is capitalism. They want the world's wealth controlled by as few as possible. And you and I are NOT in their club!
They've always been going for world domination. It's just that they were immediately and outwardly successful in Asia and South America, but they've been working behind the scenes in other countries all this time.
So did we. Or so Trump said we’d help. Hopefully he was just paying lip service and it was simply political talk. We have our own problems and have no money to give out.
I miss the days when we could see third world shitholes from afar, and just shake our head. Now none of us are far from a third world shithole, right here in the US.
This is about Iran, gaining a new front from which to attack Israel. We give Israel some obscene amount of $MM per day, they'll be fine. We'll sell them more bombs with which to pre-emptively strike the Golan Heights AND everyplace in Lebanon they want.
It can be fertilizer and also a cover for a covert operation. Apparently netayahu said the location was a missile factory a few years back. What color smoke does ammonium nitrate make?
This shit was seized before being shipped to a bomb maker. No precautions were made to store it safely. Who knows how much of it has been stolen. This is one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever,perhaps THE biggest. Whether it's an innocent accident or no, Iran will try to capitalize on this.
Not much. Official US response is "So sorry your port blew up. Aid? LOL." (As it should be)
There's something there, but it's a death cult country, so we may never know - but the events over there are getting interesting. Fuck 'em. Instability in death cult countries is always better than unity and strength in death cult countries.
Lebanon is the only middle eastern country left with a significant christian population. 41% of Lebanon is Christian, they control half of the seats in parliament, and they control the presidency (written into constitution). If Lebanon falls, the last Christian sanctuary in the middle east falls as well
I haven't met a Lebanese person who has good things to say about their country except for the one guy who left his wife, moved back to Lebanon, and converted to Islam.
I am from Leb and I live here now. First, it’s not a death cult country like some ignorant people in the comments say. Us Christians here have a very westernized culture and way of life.
Yeah you can say its looking more and more like it was an accident. But the investigation is not finished yet, plus we are asking for an international investigation because we dont have trust in any governing bodies here.
But I have to say , the timing of this is very suspicious as it coincides with coming events that was gonna put some big baddies in danger. Now they’re safe again, unfortunately.
Thanks! I tried smacking down those saying Lebanon was an Islamic "death cult Country," but your word means a lot more. The info we get here is so twisted:
Christian population has declined, from 51% down to 43% of the Nation's population. That might mean there are more Christians there now than there were in 1974?
We see videos of sketchy looking flying objects going into the explosion, timed perfectly to make it worse. I don't expect you have facts about that one way or the other. DJT did say he was told by our Generals that it was an attack. I can't imagine the US wants regime change but the top Officials safe.
I just wish our government would listen to US telling them "resign or hang!" In April I was with 10,000 and a guillotine on the lawn of my State Capitol. We really need to get rid of this tyranny.
Exactly, everything you said was gold. Trump is my hero but I wish his administration would provide him more details about the picture here , because the sanctions he put are hurting the Christians more than hezbollah. I’m going to work abroad in a real death cult country cos theres nothing here.
I hear many things about a lot of politicians here who are puppets of israel/usa and it makes a lot of sense. Since they seem untouchable. Wish Trump will side with us.
Best of luck to the USA as well! Usa will always take care of Christianity , we cant let it fall.
No. I’ve never been there & my father has never been there either. Grandpa was born there, came to the US, served as a scout in the 3rd Army in WWII, returned to the States & married my grandma whose parents were born there.
I’m eligible for Lebanese citizenship because I can prove my paternal lineage but I don’t believe in dual citizenship and sure as hell ain’t giving up my US citizenship.
I have no particular insight, though I did talk about it today with a colleague who’s a member of my church whose parents & sibs still live there. He seemed resigned to the fact rather than angry which tells me the sentiment there among the Christians is this was typical Leb government ineptitude.
Thanks for your perspective! Btw, the first soldier into battle on D-Day was my Mom's Uncle. Survived the whole ordeal including the Battle of Bastogne and came home in one piece, physically and mentally. People lately say they wish there were men like that now. I'll tell you the only thing exceptional about Uncle Frank was determination. We can do this, we're all made of the same stuff ...
You need way more Christians/non-Muslims in Lebanon to have any hope of a working government if the current structure was overthrown. Otherwise it's just another Afghanistan or Iraq. The Muslims have already demonstrated that they don't want and will not maintain any government but sharia.
The Maronites with heads on their shoulders left Lebanon long ago. The Lebanese constitution isn't protecting them; it's just giving token representation.
Well a lot has been going on over there and they sorta lost all the money in the banks. I wonder if they will actually try to find who took it now that they ran out the politicians.
An accident is possible, just not likely. How do you get all of that to explode? Iran benefits either way.
CCPvirus escaping the level 4 lab is possible, highly improbable, and not fookin likely. No way did it arise naturally. An accident is possible. Who benefits whether accidental release or no?
I'm not sure I see a clear connection here. It's possible there are distinct players.
Prior to the Lebanese Civil War (~1975) Beirut was a hub of banking, commerce and tourism - the "Switzerland" of the Middle East. Then the PLO moved in and shit the bed.
I lived in Lebanon in 2011. Not many people know this, but Lebanon's system of government actually guarantees that Christians maintain a 50% control of parliament.
A lot of the tension within Lebanon is the fact that this constitutional agreement, enacted decades ago, is no longer really reflective of the demographic realities on the ground.
When the National Pact was originally enacted in the 1930s, the deal gave Christians a 6:5 majority in parliament. This made sense at the time, since the 1932 census pegged Christians as 51% of the country's population.
Don't want to oversimplify Lebanese history, but there was a bloody religious civil war from 1975-1990. That ended with the Taif Agreement, which re-structured the Parliament to a 50-50 split between Christians and Muslims, and reduced the Christians' power within the executive branch of government.
During the civil war, much of Lebanon's christian population fled. To put it in perspective, in 1985, it was estimated that only 25% of the country's people were Christian. The result is that there are now more Lebanese living outside Lebanon than within (and most of them are Christians). That reduction in population was part of the reason to justify the reduction in Christian seats in parliament (since there were fewer Christians in Lebanon).
Over time, this growing diaspora (combined with differences between Christian and Muslim birth rates) has resulted in Lebanese Christians making up a smaller and smaller percentage of the population. Most recent estimates peg the Lebanese Christian community at just 41% of the population.
Make no mistake, there are a lot of people on the ground who hate the fact that Christians, with 41% of the population, have 50% of the seats in parliament.
Lebanon is a clusterfuck and proves why it was such a bad idea for the British and French to draw lines in the sand to create countries in the middle east, without caring about the fact that they were creating multi-nation states and multi-state nations...
Their commies thought they could use the poor but only bueno terrorists coming from Jordan to destabilize the country and eliminate the patriarchal/christian tradition (ffs read about the druze masacres in the late 1800).
Lebanese Christians offered the hand. Commies took all the way to the shoulder. Terrorists took the neck.
Zero Pity. Just dont be a dumb fuck. Lebanese failed at that and are now paying for it.
You’re dead right. Half of my ancestors came over during the Druze massacres. Most of the Christians knew they were fighting the commies who were using the muzzies like the leftists here use identity politics. Here’s Christian militia leader and former first son Dany Chamoun talking about it. https://youtu.be/BOZvRMwkkzA
To my understanding the entirety of Lebanon's present-day problems, including its civil war and the fallout thereof, originated with 400,000 Palestinian 'refugees' being expelled at gunpoint from Jordan (for using Jordanian territory as a staging base to attack Israel from, then trying to overthrow the Jordanian government when the King told them to cut it out). This was back in 1970, and was called Black September IIRC.
The Muslim Palestinian migration completely altered the demographic balance in the previously (as you said) Christian majority Lebanon and left them saddled with a huge number of, frankly, parasitic intruders who went right back to acting the exact same way they had in Jordan. The Palestinians contributed squat to Lebanon's society or economy, their refugee camps were squalid hellholes filled with people who had no intent to integrate, and their leaders saw Lebanon as nothing more than the new staging ground for their harassment of Israel.
That in turn invited Israeli ire, leading to the Lebanese Christian leadership trying to get a handle on the Palestinians, who took as kindly to that as they had to Jordan's King trying the same, and cue the civil war. Hezbollah was originally a very minor player (as were the Shiite militias as a whole), but they eventually came out on top thanks to Iranian & Syrian patronage and the Christians, Sunnis and Druze beating each other bloody.
Looks to me like Lebanon could've spared itself a lot of pain, and Beirut remained the Paris of the Orient rather than ground zero for a new quasi-Hiroshima, were it not for the Palestinians coming in and ruining everything in the 60s-early 70s.
I had tea at Walid Jumblatt's estate and it was magnificent. They also had anti-air craft guns in the courtyards and armed militia everywhere. If I had to put money on what sect would survive and become stronger from a Civil War Pt II, it would be the Druze
Good, because 'stability' for Lebanon until today meant its people were under the control of Hezbollah. It's a good thing when countries controlled by terrorist armies become destabilized.
You're right about people like Hezbollah not giving up power - somebody else has to take it from them. This is an opportunity for somebody else to do that. Hezbollah should have been disarmed along with all the other militias when the civil war was ended - this was an explicit term of the agreement that all other groups except Hezbollah adhered to. I'd like to see it enforced now.
Not at all. This makes everything much MORE stable, as soon as Iran fills the power vacuum. Whether this was a legitimate accident or accidentally on purpose the outcome is the same. Is Israel surrounded on all sides by the same enemy yet?
My main concern with this is what is a Biden presidency going to do to support any Lebanese ""rebels"" that pop up after this. If he sneaks in you could be seeing American troops and hardware back in the area pretty quickly.
Agreed. But you have to watch shit like this as with a Democrat in the WH shit like this means American troops on the ground and America bombers/Drones in the air.
Yeah this always happens over fertilizer explosions right? I can still remember when the entire Government of Texas resigned over that fertilizer explosion or that molasses accident in Boston.
As a Lebanese, I can tell you this has been a long time coming. There's been growing resentment of government corruption from the top all the way to the bottom in Lebanon. As much as I detest the global communist movement, this has nothing to do with them. They're fairly inconsequential in Lebanese politics.
Yes there are riots, but we aren't rioting and looting local businesses, we're rioting on the government that's squandered and sold the country out to every foreign power in the region.
And those tunnels are actually panic rooms for the warehouse. They even mention it in the Sky telecast.
If you are Lebanese a power vacuum even of a bad government is bad. Really bad. You could get anything from puppet governments still being control by those same people. Or worse ISIS or other Islamic terror group elements in government.
The same people in the west that are supporting governmental change are the same people that supported the Arab Spring. The same people that supported the "Rebels" in Syria.
Those are people that supported the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS.
The horrific explosion was one fifth the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
The camera positions made it hard to tell just how big that blast was. How far people were made it look like it was massive from close up, when it was huge from far off.
I for one think they're basically running with their tail between their legs for the hills. No one wants to be responsible for the aftermath, completely separate from the mobs out in full force. The billions needed to rebuild 1/5 of that city aren't gonna come from the city's coffers obviously. I doubt even worldwide charity will cover the losses, not including the injury and medical bills.
The peace we have outside the cities in the US is the Global exception, not the norm. We need to do what we have to to keep it that way for the future generations.
This was probably an attempt to destabilize Lebanon. Add to that all the other fires, explosions, troop movements etc and we soon have a UUUGE war on our hands.
Did anyone else see the footage in negative color. I saw a video in this fashion and it looked like a missile came down on the site. The video I saw was taken down from YouTube shortly after. Can anyone else confirm this.
They already found hezbo lah tunnels under the blast site
Edit: I would add this is a developing story and not yet fully proven. For those asking for a source, the army denies the claim yet here is Sky news showing a breached subterranean ceiling
https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1292535486754496515
And the Communist Party there conveniently started riots and took over some Parliament buildings too, right after the explosion went off.
It wasnt just the CP it was masses of pissed off citizens, I would be too. Note they occupied govt buildings instead of looting their local stores. Their government has been corrupt and dysfunctional since before their civil war
I think he's saying they showed up to take care of evidence
Gosh. I hope the democrats "fall on their sword" here in the US after they have destroyed so many US cities.
Narrator:
This made me laugh too hard.
Get out of my head Morgan Freeman. Andy will be fine.
This is definitely the narrator from “Arrested Development”.
Funny how when someone mentions Morgan Freeman, all further comments are read in his soothing voice.
Oh Andy....
“They were pushed.”
Common sense sword control.
they brag about it....in the name of progressive ..
No. It would be the Republican party that would quit after falling victim to a DNC false flag.
Its takes fuel, oxidizer and an initiator to detonate that material. It just doesnt 'splode because its burning. It take a hefty shockwave & containment to detonate.
Ammonium Nirtrate is stored in bulk in the U.S. and all over the world. This was not an accident.
Amazing, isnt it?
TFW the Democrats are LESS culpable and ashamed than the Hezbollah monsters that allowed an explosion 20% as large as Hiroshima.
Dems know 130 deaths in an instant is a tragedy, but millions of babies and thousands of inner city murders is a statistic. Stalin, eat your shriveled, black heart out.
Thats true, but they the communists are an organised bunch among largely unorganised masses. Once they succeed the organised groups will find it easier to grab power while the unorganised people dissolve away. This is what usually happens in riots. The only time the communists get fucked over are when organised muslim groups protest along with them. In Egypt the leftists student protests got hijacked slowly by Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi came into power.
As I say the bolsheviks always edge out the mensheviks. Orwell saw this himself in Spain when POUM liquidated their anarchist allies.
Good points, I guess the takeaway is that conservatives need to similarly prepare to step into the power vacuum causes by mass street demonstrations
Found the researcher/history buff. A lot of people skip over the complex details of the situation like what we have here, now. It's old hat tactics, but largely because it works. Dupe enough normal people with simplistic messages to join along and run cover (BLM). In the end, tho, they always cut out the useful idiots.
Hezbollah owns Lebanon.They have an experienced well armed army of Islamofascist Terrorists. Commies aren't going to be taking over anything.
be careful, the small communist party in russia managed to take over and make the shithole known as the soviet union
Shit, China, Cambodia, Vietnam. The killing Fields is a much watch/read story. Shows what comes after the takeover, which is usually hidden/unknown when they control media and foreign access.
A coup?
Everyone needs to admit this was the first thing you thought of.
Your primitive instincts communicate every day, what matters is how they translate to your thoughts and feelings. Unease when in an awkward situation, that eye contact magnetism when you are being watched, the slimey sensation as you listen to Hillary Clinton speak are ALL remnants of your primitive mind and cognitive mind coexisting.
The largest explosion in history doesnt just "happen inadvertently". Normal procedure in a catastrophe would be to isolate blame on on or few to minimize political/social fallout. How the entire administration will be replaced should terrify every god fearing, freedom loving American.
are you fucking serious
muh trump has no idea wtf he talkin bout.
hez boollaahh dindu nuffin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The administration has flushed out so many of those leakers. They've also fed them disinformation continually. That's evident in the constantly degrading condition of fake news.
That’s been going on since day one.
They never realize that Trump knows more than them whenever he says things like this. He has access to information that nobody else on the planet does, but they always try to make it seem like he doesn't know what he's talking about. Let us dispel this notion that he doesn't know what he's talking about. President Trump knows exactly what he's talking about.
On the other hand, I could easily imagine that his generals are getting itchy after 3.5 years of no new wars and could be hoping for an excuse to get crank up the military machine again.
I'm afraid you're right.
Who could have seen that coming
--> BE ME
--> SOMETHING BLOWS UP
--> SHOCKEDHABIBPIKACHU
--> PROFIT ????
sauce?
We need more sources. Israel is enemies with all Lebanon and will going to spin the story to justify an invasion again.
Who is taking over the region, and is an enemy of Israel? That's who stands to gain, and who is behind this. Or if it really is an innocent accident, who will be positioning themselves to profit from the situation.
If you see Israel "annexing" Lebanon, do let me know.
Israel tried during the 6 day war.
That was a while ago. They settled with the region.
why am i dyin at this lmfao
kekekekekekek
Communist Party mentioned.
https://twitter.com/UpdatesLebanese/status/1292044531169402880?s=20
When the ministry buildings were stormed:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200809124702/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-idUSKCN2540EX
Lebanese Communists:
https://twitter.com/Bacharelhalabi/status/1292116604545835012
commies grew balls when they took over a handful of countries. Now they are going for world domination.
change my mind, mf'ers
It's not that simple, neither are you entirely wrong. In 1913 with the creation of the Fed they got a toehold on world domination. Communism isn't really their goal though, and neither is capitalism. They want the world's wealth controlled by as few as possible. And you and I are NOT in their club!
Communism is just modern serfdom
Counterpoint: Russia was more prosperous under Serfdom than under Stalinism.
I'd like to see those atheistic trannies try to do that in a country with 50% Muslim, 50% Christian population lmao.
They've always been going for world domination. It's just that they were immediately and outwardly successful in Asia and South America, but they've been working behind the scenes in other countries all this time.
Yeah, every communist in the EU immediately went there to 'provide aid' the second it happened. I have a feeling that many of them were already there.
Oh yea. Commies are trying get back into style. As soon as something collapses they want to make things worse
So did we. Or so Trump said we’d help. Hopefully he was just paying lip service and it was simply political talk. We have our own problems and have no money to give out.
I miss the days when we could see third world shitholes from afar, and just shake our head. Now none of us are far from a third world shithole, right here in the US.
This is about Iran, gaining a new front from which to attack Israel. We give Israel some obscene amount of $MM per day, they'll be fine. We'll sell them more bombs with which to pre-emptively strike the Golan Heights AND everyplace in Lebanon they want.
It can be fertilizer and also a cover for a covert operation. Apparently netayahu said the location was a missile factory a few years back. What color smoke does ammonium nitrate make?
Nitrogen dioxide makes the red orange color, and is a byproduct of ammonium nitrate explosions.
Who the hell needs that much fertilizer? Did Lebanon suddenly become the breadbasket of the Middle East?
They’ve got quite a bit of rocky land, so they might actually make use of it.
This shit was seized before being shipped to a bomb maker. No precautions were made to store it safely. Who knows how much of it has been stolen. This is one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever,perhaps THE biggest. Whether it's an innocent accident or no, Iran will try to capitalize on this.
Neither of us have any idea what types of bombs it was bought to make.
How much AN exploded in TX?
Maybe Scummer, Peelosi and the gang will do the same.
Probably not. But one can dream.
lol come on
... man
I thought you liked me.
At least they admit they're jealous of our big dick energy.
Iran benefits from this power vacuum. Does that mean it wasn't an accident?
Something more radical and Islamic I’m sure.
Not much. Official US response is "So sorry your port blew up. Aid? LOL." (As it should be)
There's something there, but it's a death cult country, so we may never know - but the events over there are getting interesting. Fuck 'em. Instability in death cult countries is always better than unity and strength in death cult countries.
Lebanon is the only middle eastern country left with a significant christian population. 41% of Lebanon is Christian, they control half of the seats in parliament, and they control the presidency (written into constitution). If Lebanon falls, the last Christian sanctuary in the middle east falls as well
Most of us Christian Lebanese left ages ago. We took our wealth with us.
I haven't met a Lebanese person who has good things to say about their country except for the one guy who left his wife, moved back to Lebanon, and converted to Islam.
-My Giddu (Grandfather), 1964
Smart man.
I hear the same thing from Iranians too. Let's try our best to keep this country that which attracted those who love freedom.
Did you grow up in Lebanon?
Do you have any insight for us, was this an accident or deliberate?
I am from Leb and I live here now. First, it’s not a death cult country like some ignorant people in the comments say. Us Christians here have a very westernized culture and way of life.
Yeah you can say its looking more and more like it was an accident. But the investigation is not finished yet, plus we are asking for an international investigation because we dont have trust in any governing bodies here.
But I have to say , the timing of this is very suspicious as it coincides with coming events that was gonna put some big baddies in danger. Now they’re safe again, unfortunately.
Thanks! I tried smacking down those saying Lebanon was an Islamic "death cult Country," but your word means a lot more. The info we get here is so twisted:
Christian population has declined, from 51% down to 43% of the Nation's population. That might mean there are more Christians there now than there were in 1974?
We see videos of sketchy looking flying objects going into the explosion, timed perfectly to make it worse. I don't expect you have facts about that one way or the other. DJT did say he was told by our Generals that it was an attack. I can't imagine the US wants regime change but the top Officials safe.
I just wish our government would listen to US telling them "resign or hang!" In April I was with 10,000 and a guillotine on the lawn of my State Capitol. We really need to get rid of this tyranny.
Best of luck to you there, fren!
Exactly, everything you said was gold. Trump is my hero but I wish his administration would provide him more details about the picture here , because the sanctions he put are hurting the Christians more than hezbollah. I’m going to work abroad in a real death cult country cos theres nothing here.
I hear many things about a lot of politicians here who are puppets of israel/usa and it makes a lot of sense. Since they seem untouchable. Wish Trump will side with us.
Best of luck to the USA as well! Usa will always take care of Christianity , we cant let it fall.
No. I’ve never been there & my father has never been there either. Grandpa was born there, came to the US, served as a scout in the 3rd Army in WWII, returned to the States & married my grandma whose parents were born there.
I’m eligible for Lebanese citizenship because I can prove my paternal lineage but I don’t believe in dual citizenship and sure as hell ain’t giving up my US citizenship.
I have no particular insight, though I did talk about it today with a colleague who’s a member of my church whose parents & sibs still live there. He seemed resigned to the fact rather than angry which tells me the sentiment there among the Christians is this was typical Leb government ineptitude.
Thanks for your perspective! Btw, the first soldier into battle on D-Day was my Mom's Uncle. Survived the whole ordeal including the Battle of Bastogne and came home in one piece, physically and mentally. People lately say they wish there were men like that now. I'll tell you the only thing exceptional about Uncle Frank was determination. We can do this, we're all made of the same stuff ...
Very cool. Thanks for sharing
I’d say “Deus vult” but no one in the West, especially Europe gives a shit anymore. They are more than happy to give up to the Muslim hordes.
You need way more Christians/non-Muslims in Lebanon to have any hope of a working government if the current structure was overthrown. Otherwise it's just another Afghanistan or Iraq. The Muslims have already demonstrated that they don't want and will not maintain any government but sharia.
We can't even keep Sharia out of western civilization. We'd be better off deporting all Muzzies to their sandbox, and keeping them there.
The Maronites with heads on their shoulders left Lebanon long ago. The Lebanese constitution isn't protecting them; it's just giving token representation.
I agree that's how it should be!
But didn't Trump just say, in his chopper talk, that we "have to" send money over there to help out?
Because I'm with you. I disagree with the GEOTUS's big heart on this one. I don't want a dime of our hard earned tax payer monies going overseas.
We really can't afford it now.
And it's not like this was some "natural" disaster, either.
Jury is still out, but given the ENTIRE gov't stepped down in the aftermath? Sure smells like some kind of fuckery was a'foot!
Which makes it even LESS deserving of our tax dollars!
Well a lot has been going on over there and they sorta lost all the money in the banks. I wonder if they will actually try to find who took it now that they ran out the politicians.
I think it's mostly that their public has really put the pressure on for this whole government to either resign or hang, since December or longer.
I wish our government had as much respect for We the People!
https://thedonald.win/p/Gc7hZ5nF/italian-explosive-expert-says-be/c/
This.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!?!
it's a double rainbow
...its so beautiful...
Commies
How'd it get burned! How'd it get burned HOW'D IT GET BURNED!
Achmed the dead terrorist
Muh accident
Ok. Now do Baltimore and Stalingrad
Notre dame was just a construction accident! Even when the fire was burning we still know the cause! Ya see how that sounds? Stop being a shill faggot
Lol it's been like 2 days
An accident is possible, just not likely. How do you get all of that to explode? Iran benefits either way.
CCPvirus escaping the level 4 lab is possible, highly improbable, and not fookin likely. No way did it arise naturally. An accident is possible. Who benefits whether accidental release or no?
I'm not sure I see a clear connection here. It's possible there are distinct players.
Lebanon was a great place until islamists started taking control
So was Syria. Then Hildog/Hussein casually destroyed it.
And so was Iran! Weird how these things go...
Prior to the Lebanese Civil War (~1975) Beirut was a hub of banking, commerce and tourism - the "Switzerland" of the Middle East. Then the PLO moved in and shit the bed.
I lived in Lebanon in 2011. Not many people know this, but Lebanon's system of government actually guarantees that Christians maintain a 50% control of parliament.
A lot of the tension within Lebanon is the fact that this constitutional agreement, enacted decades ago, is no longer really reflective of the demographic realities on the ground.
When the National Pact was originally enacted in the 1930s, the deal gave Christians a 6:5 majority in parliament. This made sense at the time, since the 1932 census pegged Christians as 51% of the country's population.
Don't want to oversimplify Lebanese history, but there was a bloody religious civil war from 1975-1990. That ended with the Taif Agreement, which re-structured the Parliament to a 50-50 split between Christians and Muslims, and reduced the Christians' power within the executive branch of government.
During the civil war, much of Lebanon's christian population fled. To put it in perspective, in 1985, it was estimated that only 25% of the country's people were Christian. The result is that there are now more Lebanese living outside Lebanon than within (and most of them are Christians). That reduction in population was part of the reason to justify the reduction in Christian seats in parliament (since there were fewer Christians in Lebanon).
Over time, this growing diaspora (combined with differences between Christian and Muslim birth rates) has resulted in Lebanese Christians making up a smaller and smaller percentage of the population. Most recent estimates peg the Lebanese Christian community at just 41% of the population.
Make no mistake, there are a lot of people on the ground who hate the fact that Christians, with 41% of the population, have 50% of the seats in parliament.
Lebanon is a clusterfuck and proves why it was such a bad idea for the British and French to draw lines in the sand to create countries in the middle east, without caring about the fact that they were creating multi-nation states and multi-state nations...
Excellent synopsis of Lebanon’s history. Pity the Nation.
They allowed their commies to exist.
Their commies thought they could use the poor but only bueno terrorists coming from Jordan to destabilize the country and eliminate the patriarchal/christian tradition (ffs read about the druze masacres in the late 1800).
Lebanese Christians offered the hand. Commies took all the way to the shoulder. Terrorists took the neck.
Zero Pity. Just dont be a dumb fuck. Lebanese failed at that and are now paying for it.
You’re dead right. Half of my ancestors came over during the Druze massacres. Most of the Christians knew they were fighting the commies who were using the muzzies like the leftists here use identity politics. Here’s Christian militia leader and former first son Dany Chamoun talking about it. https://youtu.be/BOZvRMwkkzA
To my understanding the entirety of Lebanon's present-day problems, including its civil war and the fallout thereof, originated with 400,000 Palestinian 'refugees' being expelled at gunpoint from Jordan (for using Jordanian territory as a staging base to attack Israel from, then trying to overthrow the Jordanian government when the King told them to cut it out). This was back in 1970, and was called Black September IIRC.
The Muslim Palestinian migration completely altered the demographic balance in the previously (as you said) Christian majority Lebanon and left them saddled with a huge number of, frankly, parasitic intruders who went right back to acting the exact same way they had in Jordan. The Palestinians contributed squat to Lebanon's society or economy, their refugee camps were squalid hellholes filled with people who had no intent to integrate, and their leaders saw Lebanon as nothing more than the new staging ground for their harassment of Israel.
That in turn invited Israeli ire, leading to the Lebanese Christian leadership trying to get a handle on the Palestinians, who took as kindly to that as they had to Jordan's King trying the same, and cue the civil war. Hezbollah was originally a very minor player (as were the Shiite militias as a whole), but they eventually came out on top thanks to Iranian & Syrian patronage and the Christians, Sunnis and Druze beating each other bloody.
Looks to me like Lebanon could've spared itself a lot of pain, and Beirut remained the Paris of the Orient rather than ground zero for a new quasi-Hiroshima, were it not for the Palestinians coming in and ruining everything in the 60s-early 70s.
Fucking Palestinians gonna Palestinian.
I had tea at Walid Jumblatt's estate and it was magnificent. They also had anti-air craft guns in the courtyards and armed militia everywhere. If I had to put money on what sect would survive and become stronger from a Civil War Pt II, it would be the Druze
So they have independents like Rs and Ds. We vote for who we feel is best. 41% should get 50% if its only split 2 ways
Yet..
Beirut: At least we're not
DetroitBaltimore.Mayor Lightfoot: hold my beer. <lightfoot calls ammonium nitrate distributors>
This creates a lot of instability in the Middle East.
at this point, what difference does it make?!
Good, because 'stability' for Lebanon until today meant its people were under the control of Hezbollah. It's a good thing when countries controlled by terrorist armies become destabilized.
Exactly. China is "stable" now, look where that got us. Some ideologies should be destablized.
So stability will now be a new puppet government sill controlled by Hezbollah.
Cool. These kinds of people don't give up power because there were riots over the weekend.
You're right about people like Hezbollah not giving up power - somebody else has to take it from them. This is an opportunity for somebody else to do that. Hezbollah should have been disarmed along with all the other militias when the civil war was ended - this was an explicit term of the agreement that all other groups except Hezbollah adhered to. I'd like to see it enforced now.
Since when wasn't there any instability?
Not at all. This makes everything much MORE stable, as soon as Iran fills the power vacuum. Whether this was a legitimate accident or accidentally on purpose the outcome is the same. Is Israel surrounded on all sides by the same enemy yet?
Somehow and someway the Biden's profited off Lebanese corruption. Time will tell.
My main concern with this is what is a Biden presidency going to do to support any Lebanese ""rebels"" that pop up after this. If he sneaks in you could be seeing American troops and hardware back in the area pretty quickly.
We do, We are called responsible and Republicans.
I am responsible and conservative. But almost all of the fucks I give are located on American soil
#myfucksmychoice
Agreed. But you have to watch shit like this as with a Democrat in the WH shit like this means American troops on the ground and America bombers/Drones in the air.
Yep
Oh great, another 2020 election distraction from draining the swamp.
Why the hell do people here need to drop what they are doing because of this?
Like what the fuck is the mentality among people on the right in the U.S. that act like everything in the world must happen in a news vacuum?
We have Governors here who won't resign over killing entire nursing homes, but these guys resign over an "accident"?
CNN: "Entire Lebanese Government Resigns: How This Is Trump's Fault"
Yeah this always happens over fertilizer explosions right? I can still remember when the entire Government of Texas resigned over that fertilizer explosion or that molasses accident in Boston.
Did angry mobs of Texans march on the government?
Not even that I think.
We could give them a little "help" with that?
As a Lebanese, I can tell you this has been a long time coming. There's been growing resentment of government corruption from the top all the way to the bottom in Lebanon. As much as I detest the global communist movement, this has nothing to do with them. They're fairly inconsequential in Lebanese politics.
Yes there are riots, but we aren't rioting and looting local businesses, we're rioting on the government that's squandered and sold the country out to every foreign power in the region.
And those tunnels are actually panic rooms for the warehouse. They even mention it in the Sky telecast.
If you are Lebanese a power vacuum even of a bad government is bad. Really bad. You could get anything from puppet governments still being control by those same people. Or worse ISIS or other Islamic terror group elements in government.
The same people in the west that are supporting governmental change are the same people that supported the Arab Spring. The same people that supported the "Rebels" in Syria.
Those are people that supported the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS.
I wish US Patriots had this much respect from our government!
Please explain "panic room?" As in, if all these explosives explode, you retreat there for safety?
What do you think about the likelihood explosives were brought there to better destroy the place?
Was this a legitimate accident?
1/5th the size of Little Boy wowza
I wish all the Democrats would resign here.
They'll never take responsibility. The democrats see their cities burning and rioting and they say: "Why would bad orange man do this?"
The camera positions made it hard to tell just how big that blast was. How far people were made it look like it was massive from close up, when it was huge from far off.
I for one think they're basically running with their tail between their legs for the hills. No one wants to be responsible for the aftermath, completely separate from the mobs out in full force. The billions needed to rebuild 1/5 of that city aren't gonna come from the city's coffers obviously. I doubt even worldwide charity will cover the losses, not including the injury and medical bills.
It's more than that. There's been steady pressure from the public for them to "resign or hang" long before this.
Too bad US patriots don't command that kind of respect. We should change that.
Damn, son.....
Lebanon's government: " Aight. Imma Head Out. "
How do you spell “Soros state coup?”
The peace we have outside the cities in the US is the Global exception, not the norm. We need to do what we have to to keep it that way for the future generations.
Uhhhh...I'm sorry what? The ENTRIE GOV'T resigned? Did I read that right? lololol
Chaos and political turmoil in an Islamic-dominated country?
You dont say
This was probably an attempt to destabilize Lebanon. Add to that all the other fires, explosions, troop movements etc and we soon have a UUUGE war on our hands.
I really pray that people elect President Trump.
This actually stabilizes Lebanon. Full Iranian takeover. Maybe still by their Hezbollah proxy.
The problem is not the government, the problem is Hezbollah, an Iran proxy terror organization with more military capabilities than the official army.
Lebanon is controlled by a war lord, not by the government.
Sure seems like many continual and coincidental evil problems in the world within a very short period of time. Who benefits ... the globalists.
Kattar blasted the system as "flaccid and sterile", while Abdel-Samad said the government had let the people down.
LOL they called the system a limp dick.
Leftists wondering how they can blame Trump for it all
As always
What boggles my mind, is that only 160 people were killed. That blast was insane!
port suddenly explodes
corrupt government: "aight I'ma head out"
Don't worry, they'll be replaced with even more corrupt people. Such is standard in the Middle East.
Iran moving in.
They don't wanna be beaten to death
If only the mayors and city councils would resign over the rioting and looting that they have allowed in their cities.
Option 1: Everyone resigns. Option 2: Everyone gets lynched by the mob. Hmmmm....
lmfao entire gov?
This is Iran taking over.
Good.
This is the closest Soros will get to an erection for the rest of his life
a city was destroyed so they resigned...Democrats???? Helloooooo...are you listening???
This is less falling on the sword and more 'welp, guess its time to cash in and live on my tropical island while this place goes to shit.'
Now hopefully the Democrats do the same and all leave before Trump has them arrested for treason
Now if only all democrats would follow suit and do the same here in the U.S.
Did anyone else see the footage in negative color. I saw a video in this fashion and it looked like a missile came down on the site. The video I saw was taken down from YouTube shortly after. Can anyone else confirm this.
You don't need a missile to do the work of a match.
But that is feeding on idiots (not you) saying it was a tactical nuke when all the reference they have is seeing one in Call of Duty.
No one said "tactical nuke"
I saw it and it looked fake.