Khalifa Haftar (left), the chief of the Libyan National Army, meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on August 14, 2017
Leonid Bershidsky, Moscow Times: In Libya, One of Putin’s Many Bets Is in Play
The Kremlin doesn’t have the luxury of choosing allies: It has to go with adventurers and risk-takers.
By the time Putin became interested in expanding Russia’s reach in the developing world, even the Soviet-era allies he had left had become shaky. Assad was involved in this century’s deadliest civil war, and Russia had to mount a full-scale military operation to keep him in power. That was a risky bet that hasn’t delivered a clear pay-off yet: Syria is in ruins, and the opportunistic partnership with Iran is more of an inconvenience than a helpful alliance, given Iran’s problems with the Western world, Israel and, most importantly for Putin, with Saudi Arabia.
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WNU Editor: Russia is trying to act as a broker for both sides in Libya .... Russia maintains contact with all parties to Libyan conflict, UN (Egypt Today). As for the other conflicts that Russia is involved in, they are siding with the government in power.
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