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

[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.

[dfwgator]

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

[Trumpinator]

The Viking ancestors of the Russians were pirate kings.

[dfwgator]

we could see Poland and Russia put aside their differences,

That's not going to happen.

[BlackAdderess]

Evil nasty people who profit on misery.

[elpadre]

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.

[Trumpinator]

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

[Paladin2]

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

[BlackAdderess]

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

[Mariner]

This is very good news.

[Trumpinator]

The Godfather: Oh, Who's being naive Kay?

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

[BlackAdderess]

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

[DesertRhino]

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

Amazing.

[Don Corleone]

Another Hillary “Reset” triumph!

[Trumpinator]

Islam is chaotic evil while Russia is lawful evil. Give me lawful evil every time.

http://easydamus.com/lawfulevil.html

[BlackAdderess]

Fictional character, my FRiend.

[Trumpinator]

So is your version of Putin.

[BlackAdderess]

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

[BlackAdderess]

His interests are not yours.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

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.

[BlackAdderess]

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