Phantasmal (06-05-2020)
This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.
no. i always viewed him as anti-Islamist (as he describes himself)..
I wasn't happy with his opposition to Qadaffi - but that's long gone -maybe that's what you mean?
It's become a Big Powers playing field now. Erdogan and his backing of the GNA has changed the battlefield
Libya is probably the most high tech battlefield ever; an I was hoping the LNA could finish the job,
since the GNA is still a very weak government; albeit with Turkish support.
I always back Egypt and the UAE -especially against Qatar's funding of terrorists
(Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain supported by Egypt back the LNA) on matters for the same reasoning.
But like anything else in the region- "it's complicated", Russia backs Hafatr as well, (plays both sides - opportunistic)
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/op...080219306.html
The UAE has been attempting to embolden one side of the conflict, namely Khalifa Haftar and his followers, in order to allow him to achieve a total military victory and takeover as an absolute ruler of Libya thus emulating the Sisi model in Egypt
Last edited by anatta; 06-05-2020 at 03:47 AM.
here's the problem with backing the Tripoli government (GNA)
Whoever Controls Benghazi Controls Libya (LNA)
https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...-libya/532056/
Turkey vows more support to secure gains in Libya conflict
https://www.yahoo.com/news/erdogan-h...081928802.html
Turkey threw its support behind the GNA in November after signing a military cooperation pact alongside a maritime demarcation deal, which gives Ankara exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean that Greece and others reject.
Turkey's support for the GNA "will increasingly continue," Erdogan said alongside Serraj, adding that Hafter and his backers "will be judged by history." A solution can only come under United Nations' auspices, he said.
"We aim to expand our cooperation including exploration and drilling operations to take advantage of natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean," including Libyan territory, Erdogan added.
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