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 ...
Putin is no leader. He's a thug, nothing more, nothing less.
Looks like a leader of a nuclear superpower to me.
Hmmmm. That assumes that all their planes, pilots and bombs are in good working order. I wouldn't put it past them to lie, lie and lie some more about their "nuclear superpowers." Would you?
He really ISN'T the "leader" but he would SURE like to be. I am POSITIVE that Putin would LOVE the office of CZAR or TSAR to be reinstated...with him as Czar Vladimir I.
“Europeans are pretty much soft everywhere.”
As opposed to those big rough, tough Americans who are standing up loud and proud to fight for the rights of transsexuals to use girls’ toilets.
Right now Americans deriding weakness in Europeans has a ring of the pot and kettle.
I’m not generally a fan of Russia, and Putin does not have our best interests at heart. However, Putin is far less anti-western and anti-American than Obama. I am cheering for him in Syria and will cheer for him in Libya.
I don’t cheer but if we want to call it cheering in the case of any country’s foreign policy (including our own) I cheer or don’t cheer on a case by case basis.
Evil moron Hillary and the evil den of commies called the US State Department. Hillary took the lead on this. She wanted to make her mark. Obama was a secondary player who went along with Hillary's Middle East scheming
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