Washington tries to impose stability in Libya with dubious 10-year strategy

Mostafa Mohamed

After 12 years have passed since the spread of militias, terrorism and weapons inside Libya, and the failure to end the internal conflict by reaching presidential and parliamentary elections to stabilize the internal situation, the United States has announced a new strategy for Libya in an attempt to defuse the conflict and impose stability in the country over a period of 10 years. Observers have confirmed that the new strategy represents a new black decade in various forms that they are preparing for without any doubt.

Decade in Libya

According to a statement issued by the US State Department, the United States announced a new strategy in Libya that extends for the next ten years. It said it is an attempt to defuse the conflict and impose stability in Libya and other African countries.

According to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the United States will implement, together with its partners, the ten-year strategy to prevent conflicts and promote stability within Libya, noting that his country will work with partner governments and civil society to build resilience in several African countries, most notably Libya.

Not new

Washington will work over the next ten years to try to end the raging conflict in Libya and rehabilitate the interior for the future, which US Special Envoy for Libya Richard Norland considered a sustainable American commitment to overcome that difficult stage in Libya, although this US strategy is not new.

In a series of tweets by Norland, he confirmed that the United States is working for Libyan reconciliation and reunification under an elected government responsible to the masses of Libyans.

Libyan welcome

On the other hand, the Ihya Libya bloc welcomed Washington’s ten-year strategy, as Aref Nayed, head of the bloc, confirmed in a letter addressed to the American envoy that the bloc encourages the commitment of the United States to assist the Libyans in their continuous struggle for a more peaceful future and to reach the Libyan presidential and parliamentary elections this year in full support of the initiative by UN Envoy Abdoulaye Bathily.

On the other hand, observers consider that this strategy will not go beyond all parties sitting at the negotiating table to create unified political bodies. Mohamed Qashout, a researcher on Libyan affairs, confirmed that the US announcement of a new 10-year strategy to support the Libyans represents that they are preparing for a new black decade in various forms, without any doubt, as the militias do not accept peace since the state of chaos raging inside Libya serves the interests of those militias, and their leaders have no control over their affairs except what the foreign operators dictate to them.

Introductions and conclusions

Qashout explained in statements to the Reference that Bathily did not succeed in mediation efforts, but the only bright side is that the armed forces have always taken the initiative and extended their hands. However, this time is the matter of Washington, which intensified its visits and instructions, starting with the visit of the CIA director and then the US envoy to Libya, to the assistance of the US Secretary of State, until its pressures culminated in bringing together the dissenters.

Qashout confirmed that the interest of the Libyans is in their access to the elections, and anything other than this is just a deception of the mind of the Libyan citizen, while the United States is not acting out of love of Libya, but out of spite of Russia, and Libya is nothing but a tool for it in this regard. He pointed out that Washington either wants to form a joint force between the army and the militias to go to the south to search for the Russian forces that it claims to be there, or it wants to move towards fake elections that would result in a loyal president who they would later use to confront Russia. In the end, the goal is one, even if the methods differ, he said, explaining that there is no objection to the Libyans meeting and reconciling with each other and distancing themselves from the specter of war, disagreement and enmity.