Libya: three years after GaddafiThree years ago, on October 20, 2011, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was murdered by forces of the “Transitional National Council”. The overthrow of his regime, which took place under democratic slogans, started a period of instability and armed struggle for power in Libya, practically leading to the country's dissolution.The president of the Russian committee for solidarity with the people of Syria and Libya, Sergey Baburin, believes that Gaddafi was the “author of one of the unique social experiments in the history of humanity,” who tried to create a society based on foundations other than traditional democratic mechanisms. “Some liked Jamahiriya, others did not, but everyone was jealous, because it did not fit in with the standards of capitalist democracy or socialist democracy. The understanding of the power of people, of the organization of this power, of the labor organization – all this Libya will need when it starts its revival,” Baburin said.“When this atrocity happened, I, as dean of the Russian State University for Trade and Economics (RGTEU), placed a big portrait of Muammar Gaddafi with the inscription: “To the heroic death of the leader of the Libyan revolution, honorary doctor of the RGTEU, Muammar Gaddafi”. And many people from different parts of Moscow came to our university to lay flowers at his portrait. We acted in solidarity with the legal power of Libya, as people who respect the contribution of this extraordinary and complicated man in the social philosophy and the politics of the twentieth century,” Baburin explained.“Sadly, today we can speak of the tens of thousands of Libyan citizens who died. There is no unity in Libya, it is back to the stage where it was before the revolution of Gaddafi, to a tribal society. This chaos was brought from outside and is maintained from outside. There are influential world powers who profit from the Libyan oil being pumped under the control of the different local groups, when nobody is responsible. Nobody knows where the money goes,” claimed Baburin.The president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Konstantin Sivkov, agrees with this position: “Libya fell victim to the events known as the “Arab Spring”. The plot of these events was identical and the speed fantastic. This was the result of the same policy based on new technology which provokes social disorder and explosion in a given country by information methods. This chaos was organized by the USA, the country that has mastered these technologies.” Yet Sivkov believes that “the course of events in Libya revealed that NATO is not as apt a military organization as was presumed. The strategic task of the NATO aviation to defeat the Libyan army was not achieved. They were never fully defeated. Neither did NATO succeed in suppressing the anti-missile defense system, despite attacks with the Hatchet missiles.Sikov says that the murder of “Muammar Gaddafi, as well as the death of the Libyan state itself, became possible after the Tripoli operation. After the legitimate power was overthrown, the country was in chaos. The US has a policy of “controlled chaos” as a technology of controlling the state that they want to subdue. But this policy does not always work. They bring chaos but lose control over it. This is no longer “controlled chaos.” The powers in the foreground are not those on which they counted. What happens in Libya after the fall of the legitimate government of Gaddafi is that American puppets are being thrown out. The events in Libya are the last stage of capturing power by radical Islamists with the Saudis behind them, so it is a defeat for the US.”“The loss of control over the radical Islamists forced American to act against them in Iraq and Syria. This is the biggest strategic loss for the country that has to bomb its former allies whom they armed,” Sivkov said, speaking about Islamic State. “Their hits do not reach their strategic military goals. One does not fight against partisans with bombs, one uses ground forces. But Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan revealed that Americans can't have a ground war. The Libyan tragedy brought the Americans to a dead end.”Sivkov predicts that “radical Islamists will come to power in Libya, but in the next few years local tribes that are quite aggressive and militant will remember the past days, will understand that they have been forced back to the wild Middle Ages and will try to restore their state. Maybe it will not happen on the principles of Muammar Gaddafi, who was indeed a great politician of his time, but it will likely happen under his flag and with some of his ideas.”
Three years ago, on October 20, 2011, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was murdered by forces of the “Transitional National Council”. The overthrow of his regime, which took place under democratic slogans, started a period of instability and armed struggle for power in Libya, practically leading to the country's dissolution.
The president of the Russian committee for solidarity with the people of Syria and Libya, Sergey Baburin, believes that Gaddafi was the “author of one of the unique social experiments in the history of humanity,” who tried to create a society based on foundations other than traditional democratic mechanisms. “Some liked Jamahiriya, others did not, but everyone was jealous, because it did not fit in with the standards of capitalist democracy or socialist democracy. The understanding of the power of people, of the organization of this power, of the labor organization – all this Libya will need when it starts its revival,” Baburin said.
“When this atrocity happened, I, as dean of the Russian State University for Trade and Economics (RGTEU), placed a big portrait of Muammar Gaddafi with the inscription: “To the heroic death of the leader of the Libyan revolution, honorary doctor of the RGTEU, Muammar Gaddafi”. And many people from different parts of Moscow came to our university to lay flowers at his portrait. We acted in solidarity with the legal power of Libya, as people who respect the contribution of this extraordinary and complicated man in the social philosophy and the politics of the twentieth century,” Baburin explained.
“Sadly, today we can speak of the tens of thousands of Libyan citizens who died. There is no unity in Libya, it is back to the stage where it was before the revolution of Gaddafi, to a tribal society. This chaos was brought from outside and is maintained from outside. There are influential world powers who profit from the Libyan oil being pumped under the control of the different local groups, when nobody is responsible. Nobody knows where the money goes,” claimed Baburin.
The president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Konstantin Sivkov, agrees with this position: “Libya fell victim to the events known as the “Arab Spring”. The plot of these events was identical and the speed fantastic. This was the result of the same policy based on new technology which provokes social disorder and explosion in a given country by information methods. This chaos was organized by the USA, the country that has mastered these technologies.” Yet Sivkov believes that “the course of events in Libya revealed that NATO is not as apt a military organization as was presumed. The strategic task of the NATO aviation to defeat the Libyan army was not achieved. They were never fully defeated. Neither did NATO succeed in suppressing the anti-missile defense system, despite attacks with the Hatchet missiles.
Sikov says that the murder of “Muammar Gaddafi, as well as the death of the Libyan state itself, became possible after the Tripoli operation. After the legitimate power was overthrown, the country was in chaos. The US has a policy of “controlled chaos” as a technology of controlling the state that they want to subdue. But this policy does not always work. They bring chaos but lose control over it. This is no longer “controlled chaos.” The powers in the foreground are not those on which they counted. What happens in Libya after the fall of the legitimate government of Gaddafi is that American puppets are being thrown out. The events in Libya are the last stage of capturing power by radical Islamists with the Saudis behind them, so it is a defeat for the US.”“The loss of control over the radical Islamists forced American to act against them in Iraq and Syria. This is the biggest strategic loss for the country that has to bomb its former allies whom they armed,” Sivkov said, speaking about Islamic State. “Their hits do not reach their strategic military goals. One does not fight against partisans with bombs, one uses ground forces. But Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan revealed that Americans can't have a ground war. The Libyan tragedy brought the Americans to a dead end.”
Sivkov predicts that “radical Islamists will come to power in Libya, but in the next few years local tribes that are quite aggressive and militant will remember the past days, will understand that they have been forced back to the wild Middle Ages and will try to restore their state. Maybe it will not happen on the principles of Muammar Gaddafi, who was indeed a great politician of his time, but it will likely happen under his flag and with some of his ideas.”
