Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 26, 2019

Joseph Trevithick, Warzone/The Drive: Turkey's Deepening Intervention In The Libyan Civil War Point's To Erdogan's Grand Ambitions

Turkey's actions raise the possibility of a troop deployment to Libya and have also prompted a major maritime territorial dispute in the Mediterranean.

The possibility that Turkish troops may intervene directly in Libya's simmer civil war is growing after lawmakers in Ankara approved a military cooperation deal that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed with his Libyan counterpart Prime Minister Fayez Al Sarraj last month. This reflects Turkey's apparent growing geopolitical ambitions, which have also recently prompted a crisis over maritime boundaries and resource rights in the Eastern Mediterranean and is inflaming a growing divide with traditional allies, chiefly the United States.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 26, 2019

Russia Is Capitalizing on the West's Failures in Libya -- Emadeddin Badi, Moscow Times

From Algeria to Hong Kong, a year of anti-establishment rage -- AFP

Iran: The new year brings fears of fresh violence -- Shabnam von Hein, DW

Oil discovery raises stakes between Israel and Lebanon -- Al Jazeera

North Korea tops foreign crises confronting Trump in 2020 -- Rebecca Kheel, The Hill

The best of times, the worst of times for India’s Modi -- France 24

In East China Sea, Beijing plays long game -- Grant Newsham, Asia Times

Insurgency, not War, Is China’s Most Likely Course of Action -- John Vrolyk, War On The Rocks

How the US-China trade war has changed the world -- BBC

Are US-China relations heading for a new cold war in 2020? -- Shi Jiangtao, SCMP

Why Vladimir Putin is angry at Poland -- Vitaly Shevchenko, BBC

EU's broken promises in the Balkans lead to rocky road in 2020 -- Norbert Mappes-Niediek, DW

France, not Britain, is the real angry and divided nation -- Gavin Mortimer, The Spectator

The Indian Ocean tsunami remembered by those who survived it -- BBC