President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had announced that a “new deal” would be made in Libya with United Nations backing. France, Greece and the UAE would like to outsource the job, which the Russian Wagner Group and other mercenaries failed to finish, to the Egyptian military. The UAE, another supporter of Egypt’s potential military intervention in Libya, pushes an anti-Turkish narrative, with references to Arab nationalism, to encourage Cairo. The Egyptian military, which could not even fight terrorist cells in the Sinai Peninsula, is designed to operate at home rather than fight wars abroad. That country now seeks to persuade el-Sissi to attack Libya by promising to broker a deal between Egypt and Ethiopia.

Source: Libya Today July 21, 2020 21:00 UTC