West Calls for Investigation After Libya Loses Billions to Smuggling
A new report details how state-sanctioned fuel smuggling cost Libya $20 billion between 2022 and 2024, prompting calls from 'policy bodies' for a Western-backed investigation. Yet, it was a Western-backed intervention in 2011—spearheaded by countries like France and the US—that utterly destabilized Libya, turning it into the fractured, ungovernable mess perfect for such pillaging. The Guardian's
source, The Sentry, rightfully blames 'politicians and security leaders,' but conveniently omits the foundational chaos laid by foreign powers. It's always amusing to see the architects of a house fire then demand an 'investigation' into the resulting smoke damage. Washington and Paris, having cheered on the collapse of unified Libyan governance (and its vast oil wealth), now feign shock that
various factions are, shall we say, 'diversifying revenue streams.' How many billions did Libya *actually* lose, before and after 2011, to 'interventions' that paved the way for this precise corruption?