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Of Fulvio Scaglione

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The new one, yet another crisis in Libya, with the government of Fayez al-Sarraj on the brink of the abyss due to the attack by rebel militias, It has a very complicated outline, which includes historical rivalries between tribes, the role of Gaddafi's former hierarchs, the sharing of oil revenues, the interference of a long series of countries ranging from the USA to Great Britain, from France to Italy, from Russia to Egypt, from Türkiye to Qatar.
But the substance, at least in the reality of recent years, it's much much simpler: there is a very weak and almost impotent Government, the one led by Al-Sarraj, which acts under the auspices of the United Nations and is recognized by the international community; and there is a country, the France, who works for that Government to fall, even at the cost of plunging Libya back into total chaos.
Emmanuel Macron did his part when, last July, he called a unilateral summit to bring together Al-Sarraj and his sworn enemy, the former Gaddafi and former CIA general Khalifa Haftar, with the obvious result of delegitimizing the first and legitimizing the second. And he's still doing it, given that the moralizing militias (they say the Government is corrupt, think about that pulpit) they went on the offensive between our Prime Minister Conte's trip to Washington, where Donald Trump had gone so far as to propose an Italian-American "control room" for Libya, and the conference on Libya organized in Rome for 10 November. His plan is clear: eliminate Al-Sarraj and go to those elections in December that no one except him wanted and which would end up crowning a vassal of Paris.
The substance of this conflict is very very simple: there is a very weak government, the one led by Al-Sarraj but recognized by the international community. And there is a country, the France, who works for that Government to fall, even at the cost of plunging Libya back into total chaos. Macron's plan is clear: eliminate Al-Sarraj and go to those elections in December that no one except him wanted and which would end up crowning a vassal of Paris: Khalifa Haftar. Read More