The US’ overall strategy, in the entire Middle East and North Africa, appears to be one of retreat. Last February, the GNA’s hawkish Minister of Interior Fathi Bashaga offered the US military a military base in Libya, “if interested”. If the US like what Turkey, a NATO member itself, is doing in Libya, viewing it as an extension of a NATO mission there, France, another major NATO member, does not. Macron is clearly not concerned with the Russian military activities in Libya, but more about Turkey importing “Syrian fighters to Libya”. If the US believes what Turkey is doing in Libya is in the long-term interests of NATO, it is wrong.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 02, 2020 08:03 UTC