Does Libya show us the future of world politics? U.S. engagement there has been minimal since a 2012 terrorist attack killed four Americans, including the ambassador, and traumatized the Obama administration. In America’s absence, over half a dozen powers are struggling to control Libya’s future, carving up its territory, and subsidizing militias and warlords as they compete for control over its oil and gas. No end to the war is in sight.
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Walter Russell Mead: Libya’s foul foretaste of the post-American world
A resident walks amidst the rubble of a building that was damaged when forces loyal to eastern-based strongman Khalifa Haftar shelled the residential neighbourhood of Znatah in the Libyan capital Tripoli, held by the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), on May 1, 2020.
