“Turkey and Russia agreed on Wednesday”
..after Egpyt authorized intervention Monday evening.
Looks like Egypt’s action got Turkey scrambling.
Sounds like they want to negotiate a (temporary) division of the country, rather than fight over the whole of it.
Haftar and his LNA (the Egyptian side) were closing in on Tripoli for a final victory, when Turkey swept in with thousands of jihadi mercenaries from Syria, and advanced weaponry.
In typical Middle East/moslem fashion, any negotiated cease fire will be used to build up their forces for, when they judge it more advantageous to break out from it.
Even the negotiations themselves may simply be a delaying tactic while they reinforce.
Turkey’s opening negotiating position seeks to deny their enemies of their most valuable assets - the Russian air base at Jufra and the GNA control of Sirte (and thererby the flow of oil revenue), without having to actually fight for them.
As in Syria, Turkey seeks to make cost-efficient use of low cost mercenaries, from third countries. Maybe some UAE or Saudi funding could raise a few brigades of similar troops, like the African Mercs that Muammar Gaddafi used to employ.
“In typical Middle East/moslem fashion, any negotiated cease fire will be used to build up their forces for, when they judge it more advantageous to break out from it.”
You mean any other rational force wouldn’t do the same??