"By employing a variety of weapons and tactics, many of which remain unutilized, Hezbollah ensures that its full capabilities and potential battlegrounds are unpredictable," Dr. Imad Salamey, associate professor of political science and international affairs at the Lebanese American University, tells Sputnik.

"In terms of capabilities, Hezbollah didn't use so many sophisticated weapons until now," Dr. Lorenzo Trombetta, Beirut-based scholar and analyst specializing on the Middle East, told Sputnik. "It resorted to more or less short range rockets and missiles. And lately, in the last two months, showed its capability to shut down the big Israeli Hermes-500 armored drone. As I mentioned before, there is a gradual escalation in referring to more and more modern and sophisticated weaponry from Hezbollah."

"It is fair to draw a parallel between these French anti-fascist patriots and those who 10 years ago went to Donbass in order to protect the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics from genocide and who today, together with Russia, are fighting the Nazism of the 21st century," Naryshkin said.

"Communist China shouldn't be allowed to buy another acre of American farmland, nor should we rely upon our top foreign adversary for key parts of our food supply chain," US Congresswoman Ashley Hinson told the Daily Mail on May 29.

"He was unable to travel for completely different reasons that have nothing to do whatsoever... He had to cancel for other reasons, not because of this," Ritter clarified.

“Little Blinkie's utter mediocrity/imbecilic pettiness now in day-glo for the whole planet to see: preventing Scott and Judge Nap from boarding a plane in NYC to attend the St. Petersburg forum,” veteran geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar wrote on his Telegram channel.

"He was unable to travel for completely different reasons that have nothing to do whatsoever... He had to cancel for other reasons, not because of this," Ritter clarified.

"America touts itself as the land of the free and the home of the brave, this demonstrating that it's only free for some and definitely a land of cowards," Johnson said.

"There have been no charges brought against him. So this is just an arbitrary act. But when people have that kind of power and they can act unrestrained, as they have under the Biden administration, it can happen to anybody. I anticipate when I go back, they may try to seize my passport," Johnson said.

"They take a US citizen who... just happened to be a critic of US policy and are now punishing him by preventing him from traveling freely. I think this will likely backfire because it's going to bring more attention to Scott, not less," Johnson concluded. "And it will get his message heard by more people instead of fewer people."