1/ With #Lebanon entering its post-apocalyptic phase, it's becoming alarmingly obvious how the world's attention, scattered over a million issues, is veering away from #Beirut . Someone like President Aoun and his pathetic team, who rode the explosion as a conduit for...

2/ ...breaking what they perceive as an "international embargo" (which btw they caused due to their policies), have no clue how to move next. The 15 seconds of fame Aoun got over the dead bodies & the rubble in Beirut is over. Even French President Macron seems to be...

3/ ..reconsidering his set deadline for a return to Beirut. The status quo is ever more suffocating & the political system is at an impasse, not even a nuclear-like blast was able to push it forward. A different, more aggressive, approach by the int'l community might/should...

4/ ..be considered. If anything, the past 20 days suggest that the sectarian ruling elite has weathered the storm, to a certain extent, & they're doubling down on the only way they know how to conduct politics/business. Unfortunately, people stand to pay the heftiest price.