Hello and welcome to colonial outcast and anti-imperialist podcast that presents a worldview that would make your uncle increasingly mad and uncomfortable.

This is an off-the-cup episode responding to breaking news as the security situation in southern Lebanon and Israel's war with Hezbollah has evolved drastically.

If you aren't tracking yet, it seems that the IDF and associated intelligence agencies has made a ton of pagers explode, killing three to eight individuals, including a 10-year-old girl, and wounding almost 3,000 others.

Today we examine what all this means

within the wider context of the ongoing war,

and we are joined today by regular geopolitical analyst, Alina Xenofantos.

I'm your host, Greg Stoker.

Thanks so much for coming on at such short notice, Alina.

Thank you. This is going to be a very interesting one. So thank you.

Yeah, very interesting. This is a developing story. Real quick, we are on Patreon if you want

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the support as we try and build out this platform. Plug over. All right. So what happened earlier

this morning? Hundreds of pages blew up at the same time across Lebanon on Tuesday in an apparently

coordinated attack that killed eight people and injured more than 2,700 health officials

said on Tuesday.

The attack came a day after Israeli leaders had warned that they were considering stepping

up their military campaign

against Hezbollah. Hezbollah said that Pagers belonging to its members had exploded and accused

Israel being behind the attack. The Israeli military has declined to comment. However, one of Netanyahu's

aides hinted that, you know, they did. And obviously, it's the most informed supposition you can make.

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