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*** 29-Dec-19 World View -- Turkey to send Syrian anti-Assad rebels to Libya
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Turkey to send Syrian anti-Assad rebels to Libya
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Fighters in Hafter's Libyan National Army (LNA) on December 18 (AFP)
As we've been reporting several times this month, the war in Libya has
been heating up. There are two governments in Libya. The western
government of the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army (LNA), led by
General Khalifa Haftar, has been moving east and attacking the
internationally recognized Tripoli-based Government of National Accord
(GNA), led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj.
The war is increasingly a proxy war. Haftar's LNA is backed with
weapons and warplanes by Egypt and United Arab Emirates, while Qatar
has been supplying weapons to the GNA. In recent months, Haftar's LNA
is being helped by troops from the Wagner PMC Mercenary Group, the
private army of Russia's president Vladimir Putin.
Turkey has joined Qatar on the side of the Tripoli-based GNA, and last
month Turkey and Libya signed an agreement whereby Turkey would supply
weapons to the GNA and also, if asked, would supply ground troops to
the GNA.
Well, GNA prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj has formally asked Turkey's
president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to send ground troops.
Erdogan really doesn't want to send Turkish troops to Libya, since
that would be unpopular among the Turkish people, but he promised so
he has to. So he's apparently found the ideal solution.
Erdogan has been working with anti-Assad rebel groups in northern
Syria, so he's going to ask some of those rebels to go to Tripoli to
fight against Haftar in the name of Turkey. Apparently the incentive
is that each of the rebels will receive $300 upon signing the contract
in Syria, and will receive $2,000 per month in Libya.
So that should make it truly a proxy war. It won't be Libyans
fighting Libyans. It will be Syria's anti-Assad rebels, provided by
Erdogan, fighting against Russia's Wagner mercenaries, provided by
Putin.
Whether either side in this proxy battle is competent enough to win
remains to be seen. However, the potential escalation in fighting is
raising concerns. In Italy, which was Libya's colonial power once
upon a time, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is strongly opposing
Turkey's intervention and is calling for an internationally supervised
no-fly zone in Libya. "A no-fly zone too can be an instrument for
achieving a goal: the immediate cessation of hostilities."
I guess that's true, but let's recall that in 2011 the Libyan war took
hold when the Arab League called for an internationally supervised
no-fly zone in Libya. History may repeat itself.
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**** The genocide and ethnic cleansing continue in Idlib, Syria
****
The massacre of innocent women and children by Syrian and Russian
warplanes, including some reports of chemical weapons, along with
Syrian ground troops, is continuing in full force.
In just the last month, the number of people who have been forced from
their home has reached a quarter million. Most are headed north,
wanting to cross the border into Turkey, and from there travel into
Europe. So far, Turkey has kept the border closed. But the assault
on Idlib, with 3.5 million people, shows no sign of slowing, and
Turkey may not be able to keep the border closed when hundreds of
thousands more try to push through.
Here's a statement by Raed Al Saleh, head of the White Helmet
humanitarian group:
<QUOTE>"It seems that 2019 was the year the international
community and the UN completely abandoned Syria and politicians
have even run out of words of condemnation.
My biggest fear as the year comes to a close is for the attacks to
intensify further, causing new waves of displacement because there
is nowhere left for people to run to. Every olive tree has become
a tent and every camp has exceeded its capacity ten times over.
I still cannot understand how the world’s most powerful nations
can meet those horrors with silence and inaction."<END QUOTE>
That statement is actually funny. He's complaining because almost
nobody cares about the Holocaust going on in Idlib. Actually, there
are three Holocausts going on today that almost nobody cares about,
all targeting Sunni Muslims: China's genocide, ethnic cleansing, and
enslavement of over a million Sunni Muslim Uighurs and Kazakhs in East
Turkestan (Xinjiang Province), Buddhist Myanmar's (Burma's) genocide
and ethnic cleansing of Sunni Muslim ethnic Rohingyas, and Bashar
al-Assad's genocide and ethnic cleansing of his Sunni Muslim political
opponents in Syria.
There are several Holocausts going on today, and nobody cares.
Actually, nobody cared about the Nazi-Jew Holocaust while it was going
on. To care about a Holocaust while it's actually going on is too
politically painful, because the politicians, the trolls, the
defenders, the acolytes, the deniers, the cheerleaders, the
propagandists, and the collaborators all benefit from the Holocaust,
the genocide, the slaughter, and will protect it. It's only after
it's over that nobody stands to benefit, and then the wise men can
stand up and say, "Never Again!"
So Raed Al Saleh should stop whining just accept the fact that there's
going to be a bloody massacre of almost unimaginable proportions in
Idlib. After it ends, he can go on TV and join the chorus saying
"Never Again!"
Sources:
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Syria, Idlib, Bashar al-Assad,
Russia, Vladimir Putin, China,
Libya, Tripoli, Misurata, Sirte,
Fayez al-Sarraj,
General Khalifa Haftar, Tobruk, Benghazi, Ajdabiya,
Libyan National Army, LNA, Russia, Wagner Group PMC
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Turkey to send Syrian anti-Assad rebels to Libya
- The genocide and ethnic cleansing continue in Idlib, Syria
****
**** Turkey to send Syrian anti-Assad rebels to Libya
****
Fighters in Hafter's Libyan National Army (LNA) on December 18 (AFP)
As we've been reporting several times this month, the war in Libya has
been heating up. There are two governments in Libya. The western
government of the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army (LNA), led by
General Khalifa Haftar, has been moving east and attacking the
internationally recognized Tripoli-based Government of National Accord
(GNA), led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj.
The war is increasingly a proxy war. Haftar's LNA is backed with
weapons and warplanes by Egypt and United Arab Emirates, while Qatar
has been supplying weapons to the GNA. In recent months, Haftar's LNA
is being helped by troops from the Wagner PMC Mercenary Group, the
private army of Russia's president Vladimir Putin.
Turkey has joined Qatar on the side of the Tripoli-based GNA, and last
month Turkey and Libya signed an agreement whereby Turkey would supply
weapons to the GNA and also, if asked, would supply ground troops to
the GNA.
Well, GNA prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj has formally asked Turkey's
president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to send ground troops.
Erdogan really doesn't want to send Turkish troops to Libya, since
that would be unpopular among the Turkish people, but he promised so
he has to. So he's apparently found the ideal solution.
Erdogan has been working with anti-Assad rebel groups in northern
Syria, so he's going to ask some of those rebels to go to Tripoli to
fight against Haftar in the name of Turkey. Apparently the incentive
is that each of the rebels will receive $300 upon signing the contract
in Syria, and will receive $2,000 per month in Libya.
So that should make it truly a proxy war. It won't be Libyans
fighting Libyans. It will be Syria's anti-Assad rebels, provided by
Erdogan, fighting against Russia's Wagner mercenaries, provided by
Putin.
Whether either side in this proxy battle is competent enough to win
remains to be seen. However, the potential escalation in fighting is
raising concerns. In Italy, which was Libya's colonial power once
upon a time, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is strongly opposing
Turkey's intervention and is calling for an internationally supervised
no-fly zone in Libya. "A no-fly zone too can be an instrument for
achieving a goal: the immediate cessation of hostilities."
I guess that's true, but let's recall that in 2011 the Libyan war took
hold when the Arab League called for an internationally supervised
no-fly zone in Libya. History may repeat itself.
****
**** The genocide and ethnic cleansing continue in Idlib, Syria
****
The massacre of innocent women and children by Syrian and Russian
warplanes, including some reports of chemical weapons, along with
Syrian ground troops, is continuing in full force.
In just the last month, the number of people who have been forced from
their home has reached a quarter million. Most are headed north,
wanting to cross the border into Turkey, and from there travel into
Europe. So far, Turkey has kept the border closed. But the assault
on Idlib, with 3.5 million people, shows no sign of slowing, and
Turkey may not be able to keep the border closed when hundreds of
thousands more try to push through.
Here's a statement by Raed Al Saleh, head of the White Helmet
humanitarian group:
<QUOTE>"It seems that 2019 was the year the international
community and the UN completely abandoned Syria and politicians
have even run out of words of condemnation.
My biggest fear as the year comes to a close is for the attacks to
intensify further, causing new waves of displacement because there
is nowhere left for people to run to. Every olive tree has become
a tent and every camp has exceeded its capacity ten times over.
I still cannot understand how the world’s most powerful nations
can meet those horrors with silence and inaction."<END QUOTE>
That statement is actually funny. He's complaining because almost
nobody cares about the Holocaust going on in Idlib. Actually, there
are three Holocausts going on today that almost nobody cares about,
all targeting Sunni Muslims: China's genocide, ethnic cleansing, and
enslavement of over a million Sunni Muslim Uighurs and Kazakhs in East
Turkestan (Xinjiang Province), Buddhist Myanmar's (Burma's) genocide
and ethnic cleansing of Sunni Muslim ethnic Rohingyas, and Bashar
al-Assad's genocide and ethnic cleansing of his Sunni Muslim political
opponents in Syria.
There are several Holocausts going on today, and nobody cares.
Actually, nobody cared about the Nazi-Jew Holocaust while it was going
on. To care about a Holocaust while it's actually going on is too
politically painful, because the politicians, the trolls, the
defenders, the acolytes, the deniers, the cheerleaders, the
propagandists, and the collaborators all benefit from the Holocaust,
the genocide, the slaughter, and will protect it. It's only after
it's over that nobody stands to benefit, and then the wise men can
stand up and say, "Never Again!"
So Raed Al Saleh should stop whining just accept the fact that there's
going to be a bloody massacre of almost unimaginable proportions in
Idlib. After it ends, he can go on TV and join the chorus saying
"Never Again!"
Sources:
- Protesters in Turkey denounce Russia over Idlib assault (Al-Jazeera, 28-Dec-2019)
- Turkish Navy to Guard Tripoli as Syrian Rebels May Join War (Bloomberg, 28-Dec-2019)
- Parliament head in east Libya: Turkey troops offer 'unacceptable' (Al-Jazeera, 28-Dec-2019)
- Russia and Turkey extended talks on Syria-Libya in quest for compromise: Vedomosti (Reuters, 26-Dec-2019)
- Will Turkey use Syrians to fight in Libya? (Jerusalem Post, 28-Dec-2019)
- Trump will come last in the big Mediterranean gas race if Turkey and Russia get their way in Libya (Independent, London, 28-Dec-2019)
- Turkey to send Syrian rebel fighters to battle Haftar in Libya (Middle East Eye, 27-Dec-2019)
- Freezing Syrians seek shelter in olive groves as Assad bombings intensify in last rebel bastion (Telegraph, London, 28-Dec-2019)
Related Articles
- Turkey, Russia and Greece face off in Syria, Libya and the eastern Mediterranean (26-Dec-2019)
- Syria, Russia veto humanitarian aid to Idlib as civilian massacre escalates (22-Dec-2019)
- War in Libya escalates as Tripoli receives military aid from Turkey (21-Dec-2019)
- Escalated bombing by Syria, Russia in Idlib sends tens of thousands to Turkey border (19-Dec-2019)
- Generational analysis of Turkey-Syria war and ceasefire agreement (18-Oct-2019)
- Evidence grows of Assad's 'final solution', extermination of Arab Sunnis in Syria (01-Dec-2018)
- A look back at Libya in 2011 as the West debates another military intervention (05-Mar-2016)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Syria, Idlib, Bashar al-Assad,
Russia, Vladimir Putin, China,
Libya, Tripoli, Misurata, Sirte,
Fayez al-Sarraj,
General Khalifa Haftar, Tobruk, Benghazi, Ajdabiya,
Libyan National Army, LNA, Russia, Wagner Group PMC
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Phone: 617-864-0010
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Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
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