Joe Biden confuses Syria with Libya THREE TIMES
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Russia is in Libya.
https://rusi.org/commentary/russias-strategic-transformation-libya-winning-gambit
Russia’s diverse array of local partnerships in Libya might also help it secure nationwide reconstruction contracts. Due to Muammar al-Gaddafi’s overthrow in 2011, Russia lost $4 billion in extant arms contracts and hundreds of millions of dollars in gas exploration revenues, and abandoned a $3 billion national railway contract operated by Russian Railways.
Since 2017, Russia has taken preparatory steps to establish a major foothold in Libya’s reconstruction process.
Russian oil giant Rosneft signed an oil offtake deal with Libya’s National Oil Corporation in February 2017, and in October 2018, Libya’s Minister of Economy and Industry Nasser Shaglan held talks with Russian officials about reviving the Benghazi–Sirte railway project.
The Wagner Group’s seizure of El-Sharara oil field in western Libya’s Murzuq Desert in June 2020 further ensconces its presence in the country’s oil sector.
If the UN arms embargo on Libya is eventually lifted, Russia could also receive fighter jet and missile defence contracts.
Russia calls for deeper military ties with Libya
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1844191/middle-east
Yeah thank you for the links. I still have a tab open on this too.
Whereas once knock-on effects from Libya reverberated in Syria, now, Syria's war is having consequences in Libya
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-wars-libya-and-syria-are-strangely-intertwined
Doesn't matter what's important your guy is gone
YW
that is an excellent link:
Erdogan was sending jihadists from the Syrian battlefield to the (never ending) Libya civil war.
There is a lot of speculation the Annex (CIA) Bengazi was a shipping point for Libyan weapons to Syria
when Qaddafi was in power, and afterwards (Qaddafi had weapons caches all stashed in the Libyan desert)
Rand Paul tried to find out the extent of it but got stonewalled by the Intelligence agencies
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the big difference of course is western (but not Germany or Russia) interventionism in Libya
to the point of "regime change" (assassinating Qaddafi)
whereas Obama dithered around with arming non-jihadist in Syria until that blew up in his face