Details are extremely scant, mostly because both nations continue to deny having ground troops in Libya, but a group of British and Italian special forces inside Libya were said to have been ambushed by ISIS forces in an incident on Wednesday.
The ambush included suicide bombers, and Italian troops were said to have been “killed or wounded” in the incident, while some reports also suggested some of the British special forces may have been captured in the attack, which began with vehicle bombers.
Reports from earlier this month suggested Italy is looking to lead a 6,000-troop ground invasion of Libya, with Britain expected to provide about 1,000 of those troops. The invasion is predicated on the UN-backed “unity government” ever getting enough legitimacy to endorse the invasion.
Yet Britain is believed to have had troops in Libya for months, as have the US, Italy, and France. The special forces deployments are being presented as something short of an invasion, however, with the US claiming their troops are there trying to find allies for a future war.
Is is will eventually prevail in the middle east baits yanks etc all will tire and go home only then will some semblance of peace will come about.
Our strategy is for ISIS to prevail, and erase borders and any semblance of institutions that human beings rely on for normal life. Libyans no longer have normal life, and they had it under the “dictator”. Syrians had a normal life before “rebels” came from all continents to “liberate” them.
And that is what they overwhelmingly want today — we are just not allowing for Syrian Army to destroy the last remaining strongholds of both ISIS and Al-Nusra. Thus, all the drama about Aleppo, one of the beachheads of Al-Nusra Front Al-Qaeda operation.
What all countries need is a government that has legitimacy by the standards of their own population, not somebody else’s. Destruction of state institutions is the goal of all these trans-national groups, and we are handsomely helping them.
Until Russia came in and destroyed A-Qaeda ammunition and arms stores throughout Syria, liberated Palmyra, and provided air support for the Syrian Army — those groups destroyed whatever security population had, imposing barbaric rules as they pleased. After the intervention a good part of the country was liberated, over 400 townships and villages. Why cannot our intrepid press go there and ask people how they feel about being liberated, and what the life looked like under the “rebels”.
I saw an interview with a woman who is the owner of a hotel in Aleppo where Agatha Christie wrote The Orient Express. Her hotel once opulent hotel is now a place for refugees. Her happiness over the prospect of the whole Aleppo being liberated is hard to describe. Such people we do not want to hear — our intrepid press will never do such a thing as to give bad reputation to our “rebels”, even if they are Al-Qaeda.
Instead, the ideological venom of our bureaucrats continue to push for their will to prevail — the whole world be damned! What is this obsession with destroying borders and undermining institutions of governance all over the world? The obsession with supporting whatever opposition to legitimate governance there is on all continents?
It looks more and more like the obsession of petty bureaucrats that always need control and obedience, and will do all sorts of venomous things to squash any ray of free choice around the globe. And bureaucrats never think about the money. They are entitled to create it, and when our economy goes south, Invent “jobs, jobs, jobs” slogans to encourage creation of precarious jobs with no perspective, no chance to apply one’s talents and ingenuity.
In bureaucratic world, bureaucracy alone can identify the departments for ingenuity, and offices of advanced thinking in all aspects of our existence. The consultants will be there to guide us on how to run schools, they will tell teachers how to walk and talk, and what charts to show, and how to tolerate the violence as expression of one’s personality. We are flooded by consultants in every sphere of our lives. Bureaucracy has thought of everything — we just need to obey. Like all those unruly countries that need to be democratized into obedience that bureaucrats crave. How can any country negotiate with such a mentality? It cannot. It can only obey, wiggle, or refuse to obey. And that is what animates bureaucracies like nothing else. Another face on the wall of villains, another enemy — another war.
Let us hope–teach them a good lesson–mind their own business. What is with clap-trap term ISIS–getting nauseating.They are freedom fighters–get with it!
E’ un’evidente bufala. Se fosse vero sarebbe stata l’ISIS a pubblicare le immagini dello scontro e dei morti e feriti fatti sul campo di battaglia. Non si potrebbe quindi nascondere un simile evento. Ma poichè è una sciocchezza fatta probabilmente per mettere in difficoltà i governi italiano ed inglese non vale neppure la pena di commentare queste idiozie
Fascinating. US says troops there to “find allies for future wars”. How many future wars they have in mind? At present, they are already monitoring every bar fight in Bosnia to insure that nationalists (whoever they may be) do not get any ideas about running their own country. And who are their allies? The very Islamic extremists they claim to fights against. The very leader of Bosnia today is a guy whose father was an early adopter of Islamic fundamentalism, the ideology that governs doomsday cults like ISIS, Al-Nusra, Army of Conquest, etc. He actually wrote the Islamic Declaration, in it clearly explaining why Islamic societies and western institutions are not compatible. There are hundreds of Salafi cells in Bosnia since nineties. ISIS manuals eloquently prove that. Borders do not exist. Nations do not exist. Caliphate is governed by a religious authority, and all of them recognize Saudi Arabia and Mecca as their authority. All the paths lead to Saudi Arabia and the enablers of Open Societies without borders.
The most liberal of all liberal creatures, George Soros is a fierce supporter of the world without borders. His Open Society is an example how extreme neoliberals spread the same ideology as the head chopping caliphate fighters. All of them are joined joyfully by American-Turkish secretive tycoon, “moderate” cleric, Fethullah Gulen. He has been happily trying to reorder Turkey to its neoliberal friend’s Soros model. Control of media, paying prosecutors to undermine the institutions of the state, and to recreate the heaven on earth, no borders for scammers, financial sharks, armed crime gangs, traffickers of anything along, and the neo-feudal life for population. No state and its institutions is the happiness of all criminals and scammers. If US does NOT object the guru of no borders, Soros, who is a recipient of US taxpayers dollars for his “humanitarian” work, then why would Turkey try to stop the migrants? When Soros is spending US taxpayers money and now EU money in Turkey to supposedly provide health care and education to refugees — and giving them booklets in several languages about their rights as refugees, instructing them how to go to Germany, then why would Turkey care? It is in their own interest to have less refugees on their territory.
With the money pouring into assistance to migrants all along the way, hundreds of NGOs, food, health care, and the organization of transport — why on earth would countries that are weak — like Greece, Macedonia or Serbia — try anything to stop it, and earn all the ugly attacks on them from the Western press. Only Hungary had the temerity to try to stop the deluge, and the president of the country is ridiculed in all the “free” press in the West. Money is behind “no borders” campaign. A lots of money. Fethulah Gulen Foundation is directly or indirectly linked with running over 100 charters schools in US, and the money comes from taxpayer. In Senator Cruz Bible country, in Texas, 47 such schools existed at the beginning of school year 2015-2016. And world wide, he runs universities, religious and secular in many Western countries, especially in Germany. And countless in Turkey. Turkey is fighting against his influence for several years, and now the fight is in the open. Gulen’s media has been shut, and many people arrested, while only the government is being pilloried for the backsliding in “democracy”. These “no borders” do good “humanitarians” are undermining whatever institutions they can to insure that the strong governments that govern in the national interest and strong national leaders — are the thing of the past. In their place must come bureaucrats that would obey “international community” of financial oppression. In many nations around the world where corporations have taken over the control of governments, and imposed faceless bureaucrats as the heads of governments, the living standards of population has been steadily eroding. And that is causing the venom of bureaucrats, the venom that must find the way to squeeze more and more, as the system is crumbling around their bureaucratic ears.
So, why not send a destroyer Donald Cook and park it near a Russian beeches in Kaliningrad, and move troops into Europe.? All that so AL-QAEDA will be protected in Aleppo. What a bureaucratic mess! How much is worth any more the memory of 9/11?
No wonder that Trump is the enemy number one for stating that the foundation of international order are nation-states, not globalizing groups that erase borders. No wonder they are furious as he claims that we should not democratize countries that do not wish to change. That takes the ideological tool away from the globalists.