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After imposing his will on Syria, Putin is moving onto Libya
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/06/04/After-imposing-his-will-on-Syria-Putin-is-moving-onto-Libya.html ^ | Saturday, 4 June 2016 | Dr. Azeem Ibrahim

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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TOPICS: Russia
KEYWORDS: agitprop; astroturf; azeemibrahim; isis; libya; paidrussiantrolls; putin; putinsbuttboys; russia; russianstooge; russianstooges; syria; vladtheimploder
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To: BlackAdderess

It’s not as if Putin could make things any worse in Libya.


41 posted on 06/04/2016 6:14:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

The Viking ancestors of the Russians were pirate kings.


42 posted on 06/04/2016 6:14:47 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: justa-hairyape
we could see Poland and Russia put aside their differences,

That's not going to happen.

43 posted on 06/04/2016 6:14:54 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Trumpinator

Evil nasty people who profit on misery.


44 posted on 06/04/2016 6:15:12 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Trumpinator

Imposing their will om Syria of not a good way of expressing what happened.

Syria asked Russia to save them from the onslaught of the US backed rebels and ISIS. Which they have done without much fanfare. IMO - In the absence of American support, Russia is filling the vacuum and becoming the protector of the Mideast. The US is much more interested in letting biological males in the girls locker rooms.


45 posted on 06/04/2016 6:15:27 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: BlackAdderess; dfwgator

Better the devil you know — see what happened after the overthrow of the Gaddafi devil.


46 posted on 06/04/2016 6:15:34 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: Trumpinator

How do we know this is not also the will of Allah?


47 posted on 06/04/2016 6:16:26 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Trumpinator

MY ancestors were pirate kings, but a girl’s gotta have her standards!


48 posted on 06/04/2016 6:16:44 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Trumpinator

This is very good news.


49 posted on 06/04/2016 6:16:56 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: BlackAdderess; dfwgator
The Godfather: Oh, Who's being naive Kay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r-VsWqgyU0

50 posted on 06/04/2016 6:17:46 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: Trumpinator

This devil will sell you out quicker than you can say Jack Robinson.


51 posted on 06/04/2016 6:18:09 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Joe 6-pack

You look at a map of the last 25 years....and conclude that Russia is encircling western Europe.

Amazing.


52 posted on 06/04/2016 6:18:48 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Trumpinator

Another Hillary “Reset” triumph!


53 posted on 06/04/2016 6:19:07 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: BlackAdderess
Islam is chaotic evil while Russia is lawful evil. Give me lawful evil every time.

http://easydamus.com/lawfulevil.html

54 posted on 06/04/2016 6:20:02 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: Trumpinator

Fictional character, my FRiend.


55 posted on 06/04/2016 6:20:31 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: BlackAdderess

So is your version of Putin.


56 posted on 06/04/2016 6:21:03 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: Trumpinator

He is on his own side, which is to say not yours, what’s fictional about that?


57 posted on 06/04/2016 6:23:06 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Trumpinator

His interests are not yours.


58 posted on 06/04/2016 6:23:57 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Trumpinator

We may fighting what the president calls “the JV team” but in the foreign policy arena under this admin, we are a third rate T-ball team. Pathetic and impotent.


59 posted on 06/04/2016 6:25:07 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I am so disgusted with him. Where the heck is David Plouffe? He seems to be the brains of the operation.


60 posted on 06/04/2016 6:26:23 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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