Barrack’s strategy manages Middle East crises through containment and fragmentation, prioritizing controlled chaos over resolution or state-building.
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U.S. demands for Hezbollah’s disarmament fracture Lebanon’s government and risk civil war.
Analytically, the dilemma is structural: politically untouchable subsidies distort the market and enable smuggling, while sanctions and systemic corruption prevent infrastructure investment. This traps Iran in a cycle where resource wealth fails to ensure domestic energy security.