Thanks Obama, Biden & Clinton…
I have way, way too many questions about what I just read about in Libya. So after Clinton & Obama took out Gaddafi too establish a ‘more friendly’ government in that resource rich sovereign nation… the country fell apart because of mainly conflicting Islamic idealism and US clandestine influence operations. The US was playing from several directions and hadn’t decided which Mufti to support. Essentially the Obama Administration broke something before even having a plan to fix it… they decided that throwing covert military support to several factions would help replace an established government in a place that government means something different than it does in the DC Beltway circles of prostituted politicos, lobbyists and Traitors.
The Quran and closely associated texts that guide Muslims in life are quite literally an encyclopedia of how to live. They even have a very detailed design for government that has worked for them far longer than the Western governments based upon democratic idealism. But along comes the greedy MIC throwing trillions into perpetual warfare to conquer a belief system that is more firm and established than Judie-Christian based societies. The Anglo war on Islam to gain control of natural resources was doomed to fail from the get-go… and one of Our closest allies in the region is complicit in our failings.
SA intentionally stokes the fires around the Middle East to keep potential oil/gas development at bay so that they can continue to control the PetroDollar economy and reap the benefits of profits and foreign aid. If those other areas of vast reserves are opened it would cause their declining production to lose value… in several ways. But SA isn’t the only supposed ally that is also playing both sides of things.
But let’s get to why I am bringing this up…
“In 2020 a STM Kargu loaded with explosives detected and attacked Haftar's forces in Libya with its artificial intelligence without command, according to a report from the United Nations Security Council's Panel of Experts on Libya, published in March 2021. It was considered the first drone attack in history carried out by the UAVs on their own initiative.” Wikipedia
“The assault came during fighting between the U.N.-recognized Government of National Accord and forces aligned with Gen. Khalifa Haftar, according to the report by the U.N. Panel of Experts on Libya.
"Logistics convoys and retreating [Haftar-affiliated forces] were subsequently hunted down and remotely engaged by the unmanned combat aerial vehicles or the lethal autonomous weapons systems such as the STM Kargu-2 ... and other loitering munitions," the panel wrote.” NPR
So if the Gov’t Forces in Libya have such sophisticated weapons as Armed Autonomous Drones… supplied by a member of NATO… and uses that weapon to attack the US backed Haftar… what does that all mean? The current situation in Libya is just as eFFed up as it was a decade ago when Obama, Biden & Clinton set out to topple the Gaddafi gov’t to gain access to natural resources. There are essentially two rival factions in the government wanting to succeed in the upcoming elections and the US is backing the one with the bigger guns…
It means that the Obama/Clinton coup failed and a decade later despite the outwardly appearance of a more stable Libya… shit’s still a mess. And Yes folks… the good ole’ US of A Inc. is dumping all manner of cash into that already wealthy nation. Just yesterday the US House of Representatives passed the “Libya Stabilization Act” which reads like a blank check for USAID to spend like there’s no tomorrow to influence the upcoming elections in Libya. Even the big oil companies are getting involved… but there’s just one problem, we’ll actually a few. We’ll stick to the pertinent one…
The persona that the US is backing to become President of Libya is Khalifa Belqasim Haftar. Haftar was pretty much the de facto leader of the efforts to overthrow Gaddafi since the late 80s. Haftar was Gaddafi’s Chief of Staff in 1987 when he was captured by Chad during that conflict. Gaddafi pretty much disavowed Haftar and it was up to the US to negotiate their release… which they did and then set up Haftar’s expatriate Militia in Zaire in 1990.
Fast forward to 2011 when Haftar’s Militias ransacked Libya and facilitated removing Gaddafi from power plunging that once peaceful country into chaos. The US had decided to back Haftar and his ‘allies’ but never bothered to figure out whom they needed from Western Libya… something that has always been an issue there. Then when it was too late the US struck a deal with a local yokel group in Benghazi and tried to use them to help outsiders establish a foothold. When the locals found out what was happening and that they were getting a back door deal, they went off… Benghazi is still a power keg.
Fast Forward to now as the Biden Administration has ramped up US involvement in Libya… but Kafter is being courted by someone more his style as a warlord. He’s been palling around with Putin and some of his resource development gang. The US is now concerned that they may be backing a dead horse because of the general Libyan public perception that Kaftar is just another corrupted warlord. Since being reinstated as the Head of Libya’s Armed Forces he launched a brutal campaign against Western Libyan based militias and municipalities. He’s even been accused of ordering detainees executed without due process… a ‘War Crime’.
But he’s obviously being held above the Law… Haftar happens to be a very wealthy man (his family was not wealthy) that resided in Virginia from 1990 - 2011. Then he returned to Libya to begin the long and bloody as of yet not concluded process of dominating that nation for his MIC backers.
This is the man that the US has been financing for 30 years and think of the untold lives lost, including Americans over the past decade+ of civil war in Libya. As Our own nation falters under the crush of all consuming government, moral decay and foreign economic dependence, We are still sending Our resources overseas to kill innocent people for profit.
And Yes Alaskans… The Don voted just two days ago in favor of the newest version of the Libyan Stabilization Act: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Vote Details