A delegation of senior US officials, including Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland, met with the leader of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army, Gen. Khalifa Hafter, who is in the process of trying to occupy Tripoli during his latest attempted coup.
Officially, the US is backing Hafter’s enemies, the UN-endorsed unity government, though at times the Trump Administration has expressed support for Hafter’s future role in Libya, raising questions over what side the US will ultimately land on.
The State Department didn’t seem to want to admit that this is an issue, however, and instead said that they were talking with Hafter primarily to express “serious concern” about Russian mercenaries supporting Hafter.
A former CIA asset, Hafter has been making the rounds internationally, including visiting Russia, to try to drum up support for his military and his ultimate takeover of Libya. Hafter is also broadly supported by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt’s junta, all of whom prefer a Hafter dictatorship to an election that is almost certain to give Muslim Brotherhood figures some power.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt’s junta would not allow a free election ay all cost.Saudi Arabia, the UAE financed the military take over in Egypt,turned Yemen into a destroyed nation, worked behind the scene to destroy Syria ,and supported the failed coup in Turkey ,sabotaged the will of the people in Sudan and Algeria and tried very hard to do the same in Tunisia.Saudi Arabia and UAE have had their sights set on taking over the resources such as oil ,ports and prime real estate .
“Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates have used their considerable resources to promote authoritarian
governments run by military strongmen in the region. They helped crush Bahrain’s uprising, bankrolled a return to military dictatorship in Egypt, armed a rogue military leader in Libya and mismanaged a democratic transition in Yemen before launching a destructive war there..”
https://www.demdigest.org/why-saudis-and-uae-want-to-destroy-hope-for-arab-democracy/
For all our fancy cognitive abilities, language, and tool use; international relations still occurs at the level that packs of wild dogs function at.