this is interesting:

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/al-qaeda-hezbollah-relationship

yeah, i'm starting to see articles claim that the new unelected fascist dictator in syria is in conflict with hezbollah because hezbollah was aligned with assad. this is 1984 level nonsense that would make orwell cringe. there's no truth to it at all.

the fascists in syria were proxies of the turks, but it was the americans that overthrew assad. the islamist/nazi syrian fascist terrorist group in charge in damascus right now is something we've seen little of in the west in recent decades: a cia-backed coup. it is for this reason that trump thinks he can order them around, not because they're in a conflict with hezbollah.

the natural fault lines between al qaeda (who is who is running syria, and who trump is trying to align with and gets excited about reaching around) and hezbollah are the old shia/sunni thing. these are both extremist factions, and their positions are extreme across the board; the al qaeda fascists think the hezbollah fascists are heretics and need to be wiped out for it. they do want to kill each other, but it has to do with religion, and at the end of the day the bottom line is that they share a common ideology of islamic extremism. 

while assad was never aligned with hezbollah, and was never likely to align with hezbollah because he was trying to save secular arab socialism in syria, which is a common enemy of al qaeda and hezbollah, there is some non-remote possibility that al qaeda and hezbollah might put aside their differences to fight the jews, because they are of course both nazis at their core. everything else aside, the jews are the greater evil to both hezbollah fascists and al qaeda fascists. the recent cia-backed islamist coup in syria resulting in an iranian ally in damascus where there was none before would be called blowback.

trump has this inability to see himself for who he is, and it has led him to decide that groups that can't stand him (like the pakistanis and the syrians) are actually his bestest buds. he can't figure out who his friends are. the pakistanis don't like him at all, and neither do the syrians. the syrians are not going to take orders from trump and, if anything, might be trying to wiggle their way out of this relationship with the americans.

that said, i would not support syrian military involvement in lebanon and that's not what i said. the lebanese and the israelis need to work together to get rid of hezbollah, and they could benefit from international cooperation through the un, which would be prioritizing this as an issue if it weren't completely useless. but, syrian military action against hezbollah would probably result in a destabilized syria, and an isis resurgence. the iranians would bomb them from iraq. you might get a war between syria and iraq instead of syria and lebanon, and the syrians would lose. it's a stupid strategy thought up by a stupid person that nobody in the region or outside of it respects.

what i said is this:

however, the basic issue brought up in western media of syria acting as a transit point between lebanon and iran hasn't changed and still needs to be addressed. this should be tied to western funding.

the demands on (the fascist dictator currently in charge of) syria to maintain us funding, short of being dismantled and overthrown, should consequently be the following

1) take your shia refugees back from lebanon. all of them. do what you will with them.

2) coordinate with lebanon and israel in building a common front to just get hezbollah the fuck out of there and figure it out after

3) that includes preventing the desert from acting as a caravan transit medium

4) respect lebanon's sovereignty as a christian state and israel's sovereignty as a jewish state.

what that means in different terms is that syria should be told to make sure that it is not acting as a conduit, transit point, laundering location, bank or other kind of financial sink for hezbollah funds, weapons, colonizers or terrorists to enter lebanon. it's not about syria bombing hezbollah in lebanon, it's about syria policing the border with iraq.

and it's about taking back their shia, who are not wanted or welcome in lebanon by the lebanese.