Hezbollah’s Resistance™ against resistance

Joey Ayoub
18 min readFeb 11, 2021

When Hezbollah started sending its men to Syria in 2011, the revolution against the Assad regime was still producing extraordinary momentum. The rest, as they sadly say, is history. At the time of writing, the Assad regime, backed by Russia, Iran and (mostly Iranian-backed) paramilitary forces, has retaken large parts of Syria. A Pyrrhic victory that has left behind sieges, destruction and the slow, torturous…

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Joey Ayoub

writer, researcher, cinephile and linguaphile. originally from Lebanon, currently in Switzerland. joeyayoub.com