{"id":2567,"date":"2017-09-18T20:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T20:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2017-09-18T20:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T20:32:42","slug":"inside-putins-libyan-power-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/18\/inside-putins-libyan-power-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"INSIDE PUTIN\u2019S LIBYAN POWER PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : Foreign Policy<\/p>\n

By Lincoln Pigman<\/a><\/span>, Kyle Orton<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Libya, which has been wracked by instability and violence since 2011, is re-emerging as a geopolitical hotspot. With opposing forces fighting for control of the war-torn country \u2014 the main two being the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libyan National Army (LNA) \u2014 foreign powers have begun taking sides, internationalizing the conflict. For Western observers, the growing involvement of Russia, a major ally of LNA commander Khalifa Haftar, represents a particular concern.<\/p>\n

Coming on the heels of the Russian military intervention in Syria, Moscow\u2019s role in Libya\u2019s civil war may seem, at first glance, like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. Once again, it appears that the Kremlin is working to consolidate the power of a pro-Russian regional strongman and establish a \u201ccrescent of Russian influence\u201d across the Middle East.<\/p>\n

And given the similarities between Haftar and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, some degree of anxiety is understandable. Like Assad, who has long appealed to foreign governments by referring to Syrian rebels as terrorists, Haftar often frames himself as a bulwark against violent extremism in Libya, where the Islamic State remains<\/a> active and Islamists have formed powerful militias and entered mainstream politics.<\/p>\n

Yet Russia\u2019s actual strategy does not involve bombing Libya into submission so it accepts \u201cMoscow\u2019s man<\/a>\u201d as its leader. Russia\u2019s intentions in Libya are far more cooperative with the international community \u2014 though no less in its own national interests.<\/p>\n

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Sourced : Foreign Policy By Lincoln Pigman, Kyle Orton Libya, which has been wracked by instability and violence since 2011, is re-emerging as a geopolitical hotspot. With opposing forces fighting for control of the war-torn country \u2014 the main two being the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libyan National Army (LNA) \u2014… Continue reading INSIDE PUTIN\u2019S LIBYAN POWER PLAN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1653,546,1654,15],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-government-of-national-accord-gna","tag-libya","tag-libyan-national-army-lna","tag-syria","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}