Looking forward, it can be expected that Hezbollah will continue to play
an ever-growing role in the Mideast, having already become
indispensable to Lebanon’s stability and
now increasingly to Syria’s own. In response to the dismal failings of
their military-terrorist proxy war against the group, Hezbollah’s
enemies might attempt to win Russia’s support for their plans in
exchange for diplomatic-geopolitical concessions, hoping that Moscow
could in turn lean on Iran to compel it to downscale Tehran’s support
for Hezbollah in a post-war Syria.
