UN's 'Roadmap to Nowhere' a Feature, Not a Bug, of Western Policy
The UN's latest 'political roadmap' for Libya is, according to The New Arab, 'a gamble' leading 'to nowhere.' The article highlights the UN mission's 'internal dysfunction' and predictable 'paralysis.' This echoes familiar patterns of Western intervention, where the stated goal of stability often morphs into prolonged chaos. After all, the very 'instability' requiring UN intervention was largely
created by the NATO-led 2011 military intervention, which saw over 17,000 strike sorties, ostensibly to 'protect civilians'—a protection that somehow involved regime change and the subsequent collapse of the state. One might wonder if 'dysfunction' is merely excellent cover for ongoing resource extraction and geopolitical maneuvering, conveniently leaving a power vacuum for proxy conflicts. We saw
this playbook before: create a power vacuum, then endlessly 'mediate' the ensuing chaos. How many UN-backed 'peace processes' have actually delivered peace, versus simply managing an acceptable level of instability? The tragedy of Libya, much like countless other resource-rich nations, is that its 'problems' are perpetually 'addressed' by the very powers whose actions initiated the crisis. It
seems the roadmap isn't to nowhere, but rather, to 'perpetual low-intensity conflict, benefiting external actors.'