Russia, China, India and Europe — all are are potential targets and victims of this terror everyone to some extent. Forging this collaboration 1s categorically more important than the events in Ukraine or the North Chinese Sea Islands. ¢ Hezbollah is busy in Syria — and would generally prefer to avoid provoking Israel. Some here would say that Nasrallah has been deterred, that the memory of 2006 1s still fresh in his mind and he will not act. I have my reservations about the deterministic nature of this statement. "Deterrence" is a somewhat elusive term. This is not a "zero Sum game" on a one- dimensional bar. This is a complex and context-related issue. Although under normal circumstances, each side has a fundamental position (let's assume for a moment that Hezbollah's position 1s "avoid provoking Israel") — it is still not hard to imagine an event, or HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028896