Author: VK
In Libya, there is the second anniversary of the start of the armed uprising that led to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and then his assassination by rebels who carried out a military operation with the support of NATO forces. The Russian experts speak of lessons of the Libyan Revolution.
“During the four months of the war the failure of the political and military coordination of NATO became obvious”, Anatoly Tsyganok, head of the Center for Military Prognoses, believes. “Being an initiator of the military operation, France could not have dealt with Gaddafi without American jammers, aircraft and cruise missiles. The UK had a total of 69 pilots trained for combat missions. This war has shown the low standard of NATO's military machine and of the U.S., the level of its degradation”.
The war in Libya has set two sad records - in coverage of territory and in duration of hostilities. “The Georgian-Ossetian war lasted for five days, Israel's war against Hamas for 22 days, the US military operation "Iraqi Freedom" for 25 days. However, Libya's war against the United States lasted for 240 days. The uniqueness of the situation is that NATO is not able to defeat the so-called "Gaddafi's parading army." Those baseless ideas about their armies and the power of combat power proved disastrous for the U.S. The leadership of NATO and the United States believed, in any case, that after the first attacks the army would fall apart and that people would surrender in great quantities. However, despite the heavy losses, the soldiers remained capable of fighting - several regiments were like elite battalions”, Tsyganok says.
New technologies were used in Libya. “For the first time, for instance, a converted SSGN, a submarine with cruise missiles, was used in Libya during military operations. A tactical missile was also tested for the first time. For the first time in a real situation the transportation of combat swimmers was used and enhanced”, Tsyganok says. “The financing of fleeing generals' families is used no less effectively. This is already a second such American operation. If you remember the events of the Iraqi war, in Iraq only two divisions were active, while the other eight divisions had been bribed. Finally, there was an awful bloodlust – the corpse of Gaddafi was placed in a freezer, and that during the whole day people would come up to it and take pictures. The collapse of the economy was also evident – due to the civil war, the economy has lost more than $14 billion”.
Speaking of the reasons for the Libyan Revolution, Denga Khalidov, vice-president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, said: ”There was a kind of model of tribal democracy - the chaos, conflict, social and political, was transferred to the local level. At the state level there was almost absolute stability. The only instability faced by Muammar Gaddafi was the separatist sentiment in the province of Benghazi. But this problem could be solved through reform, through dialogue, in a political way. The external interference and "yeast of revolution" - local liberals and radical Muslim groups - have played a role. They became tools of destabilization and chaos in Libya. What happened in Libya fits in the global scenario, which we at the Academy of Geopolitical Problems define in terms of the "strategy of dismantling the nation-state," "inciting chaos", "managing the parties of the conflict" and "chaos management". Dismantling nation-states is a way of building a new world order, because the nation-state is a product of the industrial age. In a globalized world, at a time when capital is now global and transnational, national states are a serious obstacle to the development of capital and the development of the form of capitalism approved by the Western countries. This form of capitalism fits the conditions when money is made from the air, where money makes money. It is financial capital, which is tens and hundreds of times greater than productive capital. The world financial oligarchy, through its subsidiaries, through exclusive clubs, is promoting this agenda and this strategy.
As a rule, the cabinet and the management structures of the Western countries include very many people who can be defined as "agents of globalization", "agents of the globalists." Agents of globalization constantly face nationally-oriented politicians and nationally-oriented capital. This happens in the U.S., in France, in the UK, in Canada. And, as a rule, in constant conflict, in the dialogue between two forces in the last decade, especially after the collapse of the USSR, the agents of globalization win, being a creature of the financial capital. Therefore, despite the fact that two or three years ago, Gaddafi met with Berlusconi and Sarkozy and believed that his problems with the West were resolved, he was profoundly mistaken".
Speaking of lessons for Russia, Khalidov formulated them it in terms of prison slang: “Do not believe the West. Do not ask them for anything…The disorder, which has begun in the North African countries, will be extended to other countries. If the state, the political elite of the country, does not perceive the changes inside the country and external challenges critically, it is doomed. Putin really responds to some of the internal challenges and external challenges, too. But so far at the systemic level, at the level of second-tier management structure, normal solutions are sabotaged or transformed into their opposite”.
