Fighting continues to rage in Libya, as the UN-backed “unity government”
and the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) battle on the
outskirts of Tripoli.
This fighting has been going on for months, but attempts to get
negotiation going to try to resolve the situation aren’t really
happening either, with officials saying the US hasn’t committed itself to supporting a diplomatic settlement.
The US initially was backing the unity government. Egypt, the UAE, and
Saudi Arabia are all known to be backing and funding the LNA, however,
and it’s not surprising that after President Trump talked with Saudi
officials, he immediately shifted his stance and started publicly
endorsing LNA leader Gen. Khalifa Hafter, a former CIA asset.
While Trump and other US officials never disavowed the unity government,
since they started endorsing Hafter they also stopped calling for a
settlement to end the fighting. This has meant fighting has been ongoing
ever since, and Hafter remains determined to ultimately conquer the
country.
What has happened in Libya is a textbook example of modern oil imperialism executed, in this case, by the Obama administration. Libya is a paradise for the oil industry. It has more than 200 years of proven reserves of some of the sweetest oil on Earth. The first bad action of Qaddafi, the ruler of Libya, was to raise the percentage of the sale’s income of foreign companies operating in Libya which had to go to Libya and he did that in cahoots with a US oilman (Occidental Petroleum). The big oil companies hated Qaddafi for it but were powerless and had to follow suit in Libya and elsewhere. Then, recently, there was the fear that Qaddafi would go off dollar. That could not be tolerated and the idiotic claim that he was about to murder every man, woman, and child in Benghazi was used to invade Libya and murder Qaddafi. In the forefront of this war crime was France which has the equally idiotic claim of having inherited the mantles of the French Crusaders.