Anatomy of a Sovereign Death: How Elites Engineered the Lebanese Financial Collapse
00:00 The Illusion of State Death: Lebanon’s 2016 Financial Engineering
01:28 The Myth of the Dollar Peg: Weaponizing the Exchange Rate
02:36 The Great Swap: Trading Physical Dollars for Paper Promises
04:16 Hiding the Deficit: The $51 Billion Accounting Black Hole
05:12 The 2019 Bank Lockdown: Digital Capital Flight for the Elite
06:11 Lollarization & Offshore Wealth Extraction
07:42 An Evaporated Economy: A Sovereign Military Running on Donations
08:41 The Import Cartel & The Sayrafa Platform Arbitrage
09:58 Privatizing the State: Hezbollah & Shadow Financial Systems
10:40 Forensic Blind…
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