🇮🇱🇱🇧🇮🇷Israeli Shock and Awe vs. Lebanon
▪️Israel is following a clear pattern of utilizing "shock and awe" to panic Lebanon/Hezbollah and their allies into fleeing, dividing, dissenting, or deserting;
▪️For those too young to remember the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, try to recall the opening phases of the 2011 US proxy war in Syria or the Russian SMO where US-backed Ukraine attempted to convince the world they had the initiative - in each instance effort was placed in convincing US adversaries resistance was futile;
▪️Throughout these events, many in the alternative media responded emotionally, often with anger or panic (or both) only to find out in hindsight it wasn't nearly as bad as it seemed;
▪️This is not to say the intensity of Israeli operations is not cause for concern or that real damage isn't being done - it is a war and there will be a heavy cost - but that cost will always be higher if people give in to panic, anger, and other emotions;
▪️Objective analysis is more crucial than ever during the opening phases of hostilities, emotions are running high, and there exists many unknowns - psychological operations coupled with shock and awe depend on spreading emotions through a population - objective analysis is a bulwark against this;
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▪️Israel is following a clear pattern of utilizing "shock and awe" to panic Lebanon/Hezbollah and their allies into fleeing, dividing, dissenting, or deserting;
▪️For those too young to remember the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, try to recall the opening phases of the 2011 US proxy war in Syria or the Russian SMO where US-backed Ukraine attempted to convince the world they had the initiative - in each instance effort was placed in convincing US adversaries resistance was futile;
▪️Throughout these events, many in the alternative media responded emotionally, often with anger or panic (or both) only to find out in hindsight it wasn't nearly as bad as it seemed;
▪️This is not to say the intensity of Israeli operations is not cause for concern or that real damage isn't being done - it is a war and there will be a heavy cost - but that cost will always be higher if people give in to panic, anger, and other emotions;
▪️Objective analysis is more crucial than ever during the opening phases of hostilities, emotions are running high, and there exists many unknowns - psychological operations coupled with shock and awe depend on spreading emotions through a population - objective analysis is a bulwark against this;
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