yeah, Macron’s involvement has me suspicious

to be fair, Lebanon has not been particularly stable for a long time (since its civil war, I’ve been told). Imperialists being the bloodthirsty wolves they are were just waiting for the moment to pounce. that is to say that it could have genuinely been an accident, and the imperialists were just waiting for something to happen, which in this case was a catastrophic explosion etc. etc…