Battleground Beirut: Western colony or back to the East?
Pepe Escobar - August 12, 2020

As much as Covid-19 has been
instrumentalized by the 0.001% to social engineer a Great Reset, the Beirut tragedy is
already being instrumentalized by the usual suspects to keep Lebanon enslaved.
Facing oh so timely color
revolution-style “protests”, the current Lebanese government led by Prime
Minister Diab has already resigned. Even before the port tragedy, Beirut had
requested a $10 billion line of credit from the IMF – denied as long as
trademark, neoliberal Washington consensus “reforms” were not implemented: radical
slashing of public expenses, mass layoffs, across the board privatization.
Post-tragedy, President
Emmanuel Macron – who’s not even capable of establishing a dialogue with the
Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests in France - has opportunistically jumped in full
neocolonial mode to pose as “savior” of Lebanon, as long as the same “reforms”,
of course, are implemented.


/https://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/content/dam/thestar/news/canada/2021/09/25/huawei-executive-meng-wanzhou-receives-warm-welcome-upon-return-to-china/_1_meng_wanzhou_2.jpg)








