Re: Putler&Ozero sends troops and missiles into Libya in bid to enforce stranglehold on the West
What we actually see happening in this respect, is the Kremlin actively leading its disinformation campaign about all conflict potential being generated by the West, ad absurdum.
This thread is about Libya, and the West (particularly certain EU states) are culpably responsible. Why are you banging on about the Kremlin? This is nothing to do with Russia. Libya is a product of the West's risible intervention in 2011 :
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/o...sm-consequences-collapse-160128054629594.html
When former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was dragged from a drainage pipe in his hometown of Sirte and summarily executed by rebel forces in October 2011, much of the world looked at the event optimistically as the end of a 42-year dictatorship and a chance for the country to move forward.
In reality, however, the power vacuum left by the fall of Gaddafi's regime, along with vast stockpiles of unguarded weapons free for the taking, created a security nightmare that not only continues to threaten the region to this day but also has broader implications for the long-term global struggle against violent extremism. Life in Libya under Gaddafi was bad; life in Libya today may arguably be worse.
Taking advantage of the chaos and large swaths of ungoverned territory caused by Libya's civil war, ISIL has established three separate wilayat or provinces there since late 2014: Tarablus along the west coast; Fezzan in the southwest; and Barqah in the east, with the key coastal city of Sirte serving as its Libyan capital. Like its parent group in Syria and Iraq, ISIL in Libya has uploaded video proof of its atrocities to the Internet, including mass decapitations of Egyptian, Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians.
For ISIL, control of Libya is of significant strategic value. Apart from Syria and Iraq, Libya - with its access to ports, large stores of weapons and established trans-Saharan smuggling routes - remains ISIL's only other territorial holding.
Libya also serves as a major recruiting ground for foreign fighters from elsewhere in the region, particularly Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt, who continue to flock there to fight. Some ISIL recruitment videos have even instructed aspiring foreign fighters in the region to travel to Libya instead of its besieged positions in Syria and Iraq.
