Hello and welcome to state of play on Mint Press News, a biweekly geopolitical news show hosted by

myself, Greg Stoker, former U.S. Army Ranger with a background in special operations and human

intelligence. I'm resending that bio because this will be more of a military, strategic episode,

and I used to be plugged into

establishment thinking which I will furnish you with in the intro we're going to be talking

about the ceasefire in Lebanon and we have two amazing guests for you real quick the seasons just

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Alergies. Anyways, let's get started. Many of you out there are confused by the sudden ceasefire between Israel and Hezbole and southern Lebanon, giving that one of Hezboa's initial

early operational imperatives was to not relent its military pressure on Israel until a ceasefire

was reached in Gaza.

That prospect, one of a ceasefire, seems more unlikely now from certain perspectives,

though some hold out hope that this ceasefire in Lebanon will snowball into others throughout the region. With the

IDF on the brink, low on munitions and manpower, why relent now? So conventional military

wisdom, what we would call doctrinal establishment thinking, holds that this acceptance from a

strictly strategic perspective is an enormous mistake by Hezbollah and the entire axis of resistance.

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