Thus, the United States made the same blunder in Libya that it made in Iraq. By trying to supplant a dictatorship with a national democracy, the United States only created chaos. The best that can be said about Libya today is that its civil war is not as bloody as the one in Syria. Russia, which has long reinforced Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Damascus, has gotten involved in Libya by backing the HOR. The agreement Russia signed with Haftar permits the country to build two new bases in eastern Libya.

Source: Libya Today January 23, 2017 01:45 UTC