Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, the head of US African Command, today told reporters during comments at the Pentagon that it was “undeniable” that Russia has growing military links with Libyan National Army leader Gen. Khalifa Hifter.
Waldhauser also claimed Russia had troops on the ground in western Egypt and are trying to “influence the action” in eastern Libya. Russia responded to the claim by reiterating that they have no ground troops in either Libya or Egypt.
Gen. Hifter was a general in Libya back in the 1980s, and spend years as a CIA-backed rebel figure in failed efforts at regime change. After the NATO imposed regime change, Hifter went back to Libya from the United States, and launched a failed military coup.
Hifter’s Libyan National Army is presently aligned with the Tobruk Parliament. The US used to back the Tobruk Parliament too, but now is backing the rival Libyan Unity Government, which operates out of Tripoli. Since the US shift, they’ve been condemning Hifter, and Hifter has made recent visits to Moscow trying to get more foreign backing. Tobruk officials claim Russia has pledged some aid to their forces, but the details are unclear.
So Russia has chosen a side does that mean we need to chose the other side?
Choose the side with the exit.
What a farce. The whole reason CIA asset Hiftar went to Moscow was probably just to stage the ‘Russian intervention’ pretext.
Seriously, to think that these are the military brains keeping this country safe?
They’re only taking orders from the top Bianca. You know, the commander in chief! Your and Raimondo’s great white hope!
Don, your racism is unacceptable. The President of the United States is an American institution, and too many people who became comfortable with status quo are attacking him on whatever pretext they can find. Like yourself. You have been on the lookout for any smidgeon of hope to attack and criticise — preemptively. You have been chanting and rain dancing for any opportunity to yell — see, he is bad, he has lied to you, and will be just like others, devotee of the West imposed global system for the control of the Rest. You cherrish every opportunity to shout with glee in tha face off all those that took a chance with an antiestablishment president — every time you think you could stick it to them. But these are still early hours. You are not a dissapointed person, someone who hoped for a more — you are over the moon whenever you think the Empire has socked it to him.
But you have crossed the line — as your kind usually dies. Trump is nobody’s great white hope. All citizens of US have the right to vote — even white. But for you to declare the Trump phenomenon the “great white hope”, is bellow despicable. People of all races voted for Trump for many reasons.
He already had a huge success — he had shown the Republican party for what it has become. Lazy and entitled like their Democrat counterparts. They have for years been on a mission to repeal Obamacare. But Trump challenged the lazy talking heads by linking a replace to repeal. And who could doubt the result. Anybody could have predicted it.
You have exposed yourself over and over again. You cannot fathom that people are not any more falling for party religions — and their icons are falling one after the other. They are hanging on to power by whatever nefarious means. And you are hoping and praying they suceed. By pretending that you actually care about humanity, while denigrading every spark, every attempt, everyhope for undermining the deseased consensus in Washington, your profile is not that unique. So, now you need not pretend.
You have been very predictable all along, and now you have exposed yourself to sunlight. For all to see.
Bianca dear, don’t you know the story of the ‘great white hope’? It’s symbolic of what has happened with the American people and a large part of the reason why they chose Trump. It was a feedback on all the racist hate that was expressed against Obama.
It’s a story about a black man who gained the title of world champion but wasn’t accepted by racists because he wasn’t a white man. Why on earth would go on a little campaign against me for referring to that story and how Trump fits the title of the great white hope? Is that your best idea of how to demonize me for expressing my opinions on the ugliness that is Trump?
The truth is Bianca, racism is largely responsible for Trump and racism runs rampant in the US south where Trump’s support largely comes from. I’m a Canadian and I have no racism problem.
Continue to have confidence in it being the early hours for Trump. That’s fine with me because it keeps the facade alive. Just don’t think you can censor others who have a different opinion. You’re better than that Bianca.
The “whitelash” theory simply doesn’t hold up. White America had TWO chances to turn out and defeat Obama solely on the basis of race but failed. In fact FEWER Whites voted for Trump than voted for Romney. So there is simply no way to explain Trump taking enough states to win the election other than to acknowledge that Trump’s deficit of White voters was offset by an even greater antipathy towards Clinton to the degree that enough of the general electorate either didn’t vote or made a protest vote for Trump allowing him to win with less support than Romney had.
Obama is a Black person in apperence only, there has never lived a greater establishment stooge on this planet. The term Uncle Tom should be renamed after him. Obama’s degree of “buy-in” to the Colonialist world view as a non-White person is astonishing considering this philosophy has it’s roots in presumed superiority of White, Western Judeo-Christian heritage and all it’s past exponents.
Of course a couple of million red-bearded, confederate-tattoo’d hicks my have been motivated by Trump to vote for the first time in their lives. But it only to replace the loss of “Never Trump” conservatives who voted for Clinton. However this had nothing to do with Trump winning Michigan & Pennsylvania.
Wow — nearly 400 words on how you don’t know, and can’t be bothered to find out, what the expression “great white hope” means.
DO NOT DEFEND INDEFENSIBLE. Really, you treat prople with sly contempt whenever you get a chance. No, sir –not this time. I do not have to “bother to find out” — I am well aware of the meaning. But I am also well aware how slimy excuses work — no Don did not mean to be racist, but then explains himself proving his racism
In spades.
Don and apparently you have no issues with characterising all Trump voters as ignorant, racist whites. The same “white” states that gave Obama his two terms, were not ignorant, racist whites then. Now that population demands attention to our own country, suddenly they are despicable. Whether Trump suceeds or gets crushed — is irrelevant. This is the first, real anti-empire, anti-intervention and thus antiwar candidate in recent American history. And you do not like it!
But the only way to JUSTIFY your dislike — and remain nominally anti-war, is by smearing Trump voters, by denying real anti-interventionists message, and with amazing energy claiming that Trump is not for real. Is there anyone on this site that has not seen through this.
So instead of recognizing the moment that has presented itself — and pushing for the realization of promises — we have to endure the glee of likes like Don, for every perceived contradiction — not accepting the fact that these are still early hours. It is bad enough to have to listen to imperial drones like McCain, but we are subjected to sly enjoyment of Trump perceived missteps.
Culminating in the intelectualized white hope dig.
And you are right about one thing — all the words are insufficient, a waste of effort, to teach someone the feeling of shame.
“Don and apparently you have no issues with characterising all Trump voters as ignorant, racist whites.”
Liar.
The hubris of these tin soldiers is incredible. Are the USA “entitled” to be present and have “interests” allover the world and nobody else? It is time for this country to learn the hard way.
So is the Proof undeniable that the United States of America funded Al Nusra Front and others to overthrow The Libyan Government in the first place! One suspects that again Russians are fighting Al Nusra Front and ISIS, Al Nusra front being the new name for Al Qaeda In Iraq and the Parent group that gave the world ISIS, Americas so called Moderate Insurgents!
I suspect Russia would rather not spend resources on Libya and this is simply an effort to check and undermine western interventions in the hope of that the US loses some appetite for these projects when they get more troublesome.
I suspect this is a mistake, the west lives for colonialism and will continue upping the stakes no matter what, The USSR badly damaged itself by attempting to shadow he US in too many spheres away from their immediate neighborhood.
This really sounds like Russia has become bold enough to start being proactive in the region. No longer just reactive as it was during the period since the fall of the Soviet Union when it was powerless to stop the US.
Russia’s presense in Syria was enough to drive the hate propaganda against Russia as it pertains to the US renewed presence in Syria. Now the Trump propagandists will go wild as Russia becomes bolder.
Yes, it’s time to face the facts that Trump has taken over and previous prowar US activities will pale to the comparison that Trump is going to bring as he makes America great again. Did anyone really think he meant anything but very persuasive military force?
Whatever trump meant. he is not necessarily in charge of all these foreign policy matters and probably feels he can’t afford to oppose the entrenched military & intelligence heirarchy on every single issue. They have already demostrated their ability to make problems for him.
Is that the next step in the bullsh-t routine? Trying to say that Trump is not responsible?
I think it’s pretty clear he’s not fully in control. He’s being disrespected, defied and made to seem out of the loop in ways that are not always subtle. The government currently runs neutered monarchy in which Trump is a juvenile King being sidelined by palace insiders under the loose management of a Regent (Pence).
I find that events fit this model better than your theory of Trump staging his own humiliations and attacks on key team members (like Conway & Flynn) as an elaborate deception under which he can backtrack from his stated foreign policy objectives
General Khalifa Hifter visited Russia to invated Putin to Libya and get help and it was on the news,so this US African commander either is not reading news or completely ignorant man.
Strong Russia is needed to counter US destroying countries in Middle East like Soviet Union kept the bastard honest before.
Got to protect the achievements of the “Friends of Libya”. I think in the last 15 months the number of bodies recovered of people who drowned fleeing Libya is about the same as the total number of annual migrants from Libya before it was “liberated”…
“Undeniable” Just like the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Kuwaiti incubator babies, the Yellowcake uranium, the WMDs, the Syrian chemical attacks…….
As president shrub once said “fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”