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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...


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

Lockheed Martin?


61 posted on 06/04/2016 6:27:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: BlackAdderess

Putin is saving Assad’s Syria which means he is saving Christians so his side is my side in that fight.


62 posted on 06/04/2016 6:28:48 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: DesertRhino

I like Lockheed Martin on principle. Not sure what you mean, but would love to learn ;)


63 posted on 06/04/2016 6:30:22 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Trumpinator

That is true. Too bad Assad hates our guts and wishes our destruction (which is not a thing I can exactly ignore).


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

I personally wish Assad no harm but regret that the feeling doesn’t seem to be mutual.


65 posted on 06/04/2016 6:32:44 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: BlackAdderess

can’t


66 posted on 06/04/2016 6:33:32 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Trumpinator

Last time it was for godless communism ... this time for Putin, Mother Russia and Orthodox Christianity?

(Did anyone else take note of him sitting in the chair reserved for the Byzantine emperors?)

Not entirely the same as in the past given how godless heathens, progressives/socialists and (as a matter of influence in culture and now laws rather than numbers) faggots overrunning the West at this time, sapping its collective will to fight any foe but Christians in society.

I don’t trust Putin any more than this: he’s shamelessly for Russia and things Russian. That doesn’t necessarily make him a good man by any measure, he is KGB after all, just one with natural affections. Still, it does mean that there is a reference point, some circumstances when in his interest, that he might be trusted ... and in that a better man than those whose affections run to support the unnatural and international, like Obama.


67 posted on 06/04/2016 6:33:33 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: BlackAdderess

That’s bull. Assad wanted to make deals with the west.


68 posted on 06/04/2016 6:33:52 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: RetiredTexasVet

She’s running for President and he’ll put a reign on his Justice Department to keep her from getting charged.


69 posted on 06/04/2016 6:35:19 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Trumpinator

Well hopefully he will able to with a President Trump. Personally, I’ve never heard of this but I hope you’re right. Please let me know a time frame so I can go hunting As far as I know, Assad’s always been hostile.


70 posted on 06/04/2016 6:39:11 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Rurudyne
Islam is chaotic evil while Russia is lawful evil. Give me lawful evil every time.

http://easydamus.com/lawfulevil.html

If US policy is under Obama is to arm jihadists in the name of Arab Springism then I can't fly the flag up high for that one.

71 posted on 06/04/2016 6:39:12 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: BlackAdderess

I think people merge the father Assad with his son.


72 posted on 06/04/2016 6:45:31 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

Just give me a time frame. If it exists I will proclaim it from the rooftops. If not, wishfful thinking isn’t an asset to any organization if you get my meaning.


73 posted on 06/04/2016 6:49:36 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: BlackAdderess

Assad told me in late February 2011 that he would sever all anti-Israel relationships with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas and abstain from all behavior posing threats to the State of Israel, provided all land lost by Syria to Israel in the 1967 war—all of it—was returned.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/syria-civil-war-213242#ixzz4AfMVMMJX
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74 posted on 06/04/2016 6:55:38 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

Thank you :)


75 posted on 06/04/2016 6:57:17 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Trumpinator

Dear lord, what a mess.


76 posted on 06/04/2016 7:02:52 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Bobalu

nails it!


77 posted on 06/04/2016 7:04:35 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: dfwgator
Even the Mafia protected our ports during WWII from Nazi sabotage.

While we were at war with Italy.

78 posted on 06/04/2016 7:09:05 PM PDT by null and void (Hillary Milhouse Clinton: I'm not a c-- c-- c-- crook! Crook, that's the c-word I was looking for!)
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To: dfwgator
It’s not as if Putin could make things any worse in Libya.

100% correct.

79 posted on 06/04/2016 7:10:48 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

We either are in the last days or we are not. Makes no difference what i think or you think. So no worries


80 posted on 06/04/2016 7:50:49 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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