In Australia, there’s an activity in which individuals of a belligerent nature have been known to engage. It’s called “taking the bar on”, and it means what it says. That is, a large strong man (a bikie, perhaps, or a stockman) fights all-comers in his local, aided and abetted by drink. Rows of this type regularly pour out the front door and finish up all over the footpath. Occasionally they drag-in passers-by. When I was a baby barrister in what is euphemistically known as “the regions”, I handled one such matter (with multiple co-accuseds) where the entire adult male population of a small country town had indulged in an all-in brawl: grown adults throwing fists like pies in that scene from Bugsy Malone.
Israeli invasion could push an unstable Lebanon over the edge into total state collapse
Lebanon is at risk of being destabilised to such an extent that there is even potential for a second civil war.