That makes it of even more strategic importance, per post 3.
Like it or not, the Russians are doing the West a favor by going after Libya’s Islamist GNA. And it is battling Erdogan’s effort to reinstall the Islamic Caliphate in Libya. The claim that Russia is supporting the LNA in order to gain control of Libya’s petroleum resource is a weak argument, both at this moment and likely into the future. Russia is drowning in oil and has been unable to work with Saudi Arabia to reduce production and put a floor under the oil price. If the EU did not want a Russian presence in the Med it had its chance to force an outcome favorable to it. Now, the only European country (Russia is truly Asiatic) to back the LNA is France, and it does so only half-heartedly. Most Americans are unaware that there is one hell of a war going on in Libya and the outcome is still in doubt.