UN urges calm as heavy fire, clashes erupt in Libya’s Tripoli
UN urges calm as heavy fire, clashes erupt in Libya’s Tripoli
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Heavy gunfire, clashes in Libya’s Tripoli after killing of militia leader
The United Nations has called for urgent de-escalation in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, as rival gunmen exchanged fire in the city’s southern districts after the killing of a powerful militia leader, prompting authorities to impose an emergency lockdown warning.
Residents reported hearing heavy gunfire and explosions across multiple neighbourhoods from about 9pm local time (19:00 GMT), according to journalists on the ground.
What the fuck is going on?
It it just me or are we heading into a situation where everyone is involved in some or other major conflict?
The US was the world police. It was often joked about, but it had some legitimacy. Particularly after the fall of the Soviet Union, their unquestioned military hegemony kept the awful parts of the world cowed into Pax Americana. Every time the US shows weakness, dictators and warlords and terrorists become bolder. Putin's seizure of Crimea and the Donbas and Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal all made America look very weak, and they started preparing their own plans.
Now, with Trump dismantling the US from within, in ways that are probably irreparable in most of our lifetimes, the age of Pax Americana is certainly dead. The world will return to widespread conflict until somebody else steps up with enough military power to police the world to some approximation of their standards (maybe Europe, maybe China), or until it fractures into relatively stable rival groups at cold war with each other (Putin's much desired "multi-polar world") or until conflict becomes so violent and/or widespread it is simply the new normal which we'll probably call World War 3, or some combination of these possibilities.
The US killed Gadaffi and then this happened to Libya. You are inversing reality.
Warlords and terrorists like Netanyahu?
Wait for one fucking second. Did you want Trump to stay in Afghanistan?
It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin'