Posted on 06/04/2016 5:41:47 PM PDT by Trumpinator
After imposing Moscow’s will on the situation in Syria, Putin is moving on to Libya. And this new proxy conflict he is waging with the West has many of the same hallmarks of the last one: the West backs a pitiful attempt at a ‘democratic’ government with unfortunate Islamist leanings, Putin backs an authoritarian, militaristic autocrat, and ISIS sits squarely in the middle, a target of everyone’s rhetoric but too rarely of their weapons.
And once again, the West is being outmaneuvered. The Western-backed government of National Accord ruling from Tripoli is anything but democratic, and is barely held together with the ‘protection’ of Islamist ‘Libya Dawn’, a coalition which includes former Al-Qaeda jihadists, amongst other interesting characters. And the ‘protection’ also comes at the cost of Dawn steadily usurping the institutions of this government recognized by the West and the UN. A very thin veil of civility is masking a very chaotic and merciless struggle for power between groups that have very little in common and very little shared notion of what Libya should look like in the future.
Meanwhile, in the eastern city of Tobruk, the elected parliament of Libya, the House of Representatives, increasingly alienated from the government by the intrusion of Dawn into the political process in Tripoli, is being attracted into the sphere of influence of the rebel General Haftar who controls the East of the country, most of the oil fields, and who is backed by Russia.
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It sure seems like Putin is the leader, we sure as hell don’t have one with Barky and the gutless Representatives and Spineless Sissy Senators!!!
I wonder who “unraveled” Libya in the first place?
Libya and Syria...he can have’em. Yuck.
I wonder who “unraveled” Libya in the first place?
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It won’t be one of the questions the media is asking Hillary.
It looks like the Russians have figured out the futility of coming directly through Poland and the Fulda gap and opted to simply encircle western Europe via the Mediterranean basin.
So I take it that the adults will be moving in now.
Enough of the female foreign policy screw ups of Rice, Powell, Clinton, Bath House, Psaki, and Jarrett.
Someone needs to take control over there before ISIS takes it over. We damned sure cannot count on Obama and his muslim brotherhood pals doing the right thing.
And so far, not a peep from Bette Midler. Cher appears on no late-night talk shows to decry the use of high-tech weaponry against the downtrodden.
No human shields making their way over to Syria and Libya to stand between the Arabs and the forces of Putin.
The campuses of the great ultra-liberal Universities are quiet.
Hate to say it, but the good old heavy-handed Soviet-style of “doing things” is just what these murderous subhuman Islamics need and will answer to.
They only hate Putin when he arrests some gays.
The Russians are not encircling EUrope. They are putting out the wildfires drunken Americans, Western liberals and neocons lit in the Arab/Muslim world.
The soft underbelly of Europe.
DUBAI — Russian and United Arab Emirates officials discussed the compounding issues in Libya and the enhancement of their military and intelligence ties during a visit to the UAE by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The two officials agreed to “continue close and confidential political ties and contact between our intelligence agencies on security issues,” Lavrov said at the joint news conference with his Emirati counterpart Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi on Feb 2.
Europeans are pretty much soft everywhere.
Actually...this move has some major prophetic implications associated with Ezekiel 38.
No doubt, but what Putin SAYS and what Putin actually does are two different things. Russia AIN'T the same and the middle east has LOTS of petroleum and natural gas to buy whatever they need. THEY don't need Putin.
IMHO Putin wants to be the Czar of Russia...delusions of grandeur.
Rots o' Ruck.
No thanks.
They don’t have to need Putin - just fear him.
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