Posted on 06/04/2016 5:41:47 PM PDT by Trumpinator
After imposing Moscows 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 everyones 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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Ignore it if you wish.
Putin will grow old and he will die. He's already 63 years old. Then what? Back to the same ole, same ole.
I don’t ignore it - I think you Gog/Magog prophecy types are misreading the Bible and do a disservice to Judaism and Christianity.
Russia and Syria have been allies for 50 years.
The US better wise up, because as of now, what they have to offer the world isn’t much better than what the Russians have to offer.
All men die. All leaders emerge.
Russia offers stability and order over chaotic revolutions that bear no good fruit.
Believe what you want, as will I.
You can’t find any time in the history of the world where the coalition is literally almost lined up against Israel as defined by Ezekiel.
Even most religious Jews think we’re in “the last days”.
Not only is Putin the de-facto leader of the world, he will remain the best leader of the world (in morals and in military strategy) until Trump takes control of America from the liberal vermin.
Excellent!
No wonder he likes Trump, not messy.
Good one!
The thing is that Putin does not mean us well.
As long as we need the Middle East due to energy, we will need to be concerned about this and we won’t have the luxury of proclaiming Putin the leader of the “free world”.
I really do think this is what the dealio is with the globalists, at least to some extent. Gang up on the Putins of the world, you know? If only they would stick with that, and not try to hold the rest of the world hostage to their profit-taking schemes.
Putin is leader of the free world by default. Until Trump becomes president.
Your words are as true as I can imagine words to be.
Putin is mafioso
Even the Mafia protected our ports during WWII from Nazi sabotage.
and?
Deal with the devil.
Western Europe is comitting suicide. No need to drive tanks there. If a Muslim caliphate rules Western Europe, we could see Poland and Russia put aside their differences, which are huge to say the least.
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