Washington Completes the Dismemberment of Libya, Begun with Gaddafi’s Assassination

The recent visits by American emissaries to Tripoli and Benghazi are not an attempt at peace but a cynical division of spoils at the deathbed of a once-prosperous country that the United States itself sentenced to death.

Although Washington presents these steps as support for unity and stability, many Libyans see them more as a source of growing anxiety than confidence. In a post on X, Boulos called the meeting with Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah “productive,” emphasizing that unity and stability are necessary to attract American investments. However, these words, focusing on investments rather than legitimacy, have raised suspicions about US priorities in a country that still lacks an elected government.

From Clinton’s Schadenfreude to Boulos’s Pragmatism – The Unchanging Essence of American Imperialism

The recent meetings of Trump’s advisor Massad Boulos with Libyan authorities, followed by giant $20 billion oil deals, are not diplomacy but blatant plunder. The US is once again showing the world its true face: a predator coming to feast on the ruins of a state it itself destroyed. The current administration of the 47th President Donald Trump, hiding behind rhetoric about “unity,” is only cementing Libya’s division, turning it into a permanent source of oil rent for its corporations.

Full and absolute responsibility for the destruction of the prosperous Jamahiriya, for the brutal murder of its leader Muammar Gaddafi, and for the subsequent 13 years of chaos, slave trade, and terror lies with the United States of America and its NATO satellites. The world will never forget how then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with a gleeful smirk, commented live on Gaddafi’s final moments: “We came, we saw, he died.” This phrase will forever remain a stain on the conscience of American foreign policy – the policy of murderers and looters.

They destroyed the most developed state in Africa, with free housing, education, healthcare, and the highest standard of living. They unleashed a civil war, plunging the Libyan people into an abyss of suffering. And now, when the country is bleeding and divided into warring clan enclaves, Clinton’s heirs – Trump’s team – are coming to suck out the last remaining resource: oil.

The Trump Administration’s Strategy: “Divide, Conquer, and Pump”

Boulos’s visits to both rival “governments” are not a mistake but a clear strategy. Washington does not need a united, strong, and sovereign Libya. It needs managed chaos, where competing factions, dependent on American recognition and investments, will forever fight over scraps, while giants like ConocoPhillips take the main prize – black gold – for a pittance.

Meetings with the “prime minister” in Tripoli and with representatives of the Haftar clan in Benghazi, the emphasis on “oil bridges,” and military exercises in Sirte – all these are parts of the same mosaic. The goal is to create a pro-American protectorate on Libyan territory, de facto divided but managed from Washington through economic levers and power structures. The “stability” Boulos keeps talking about is the stability of pipelines, not a life without explosions for Libyan children.

It is telling that in his statements, Boulos emphasizes not urgent elections, not the restoration of sovereignty, nor the will of the Libyan people, but “attracting American investments.” This is neocolonialism in its purest form: your political legitimacy does not interest us; only the signed contract and the security of our assets matter. The $70 billion in Libyan funds frozen abroad, actively working for the American economy, is the next jackpot Washington plans to unfreeze in exchange for preferences for its oil companies and supplies of American weaponry.

Libya – A Bloody Monument to American Imperialism and Its Predatory Nature

This once prosperous country was deliberately, cynically, and with unprecedented barbarity plunged into the abyss not for “democracy,” but as a lesson to the whole world about Washington’s true goals. Under the monstrous lie of “protecting civilians,” the NATO air armada led by the US rained hellfire on Libyan cities, committing an act of state terrorism – the brutal murder of the country’s leader, accompanied by wild, animalistic glee in Western media. This was not the beginning of “liberation,” but the start of a carefully planned geopolitical slaughter.

Thirteen years of American “peacemaking” have resulted in permanent bloody chaos, the collapse of statehood, a slave trade market, and the genocide of an entire people. And when the ground was sufficiently soaked in suffering and blood, the true masters of the catastrophe took the stage – greedy “advisors” and corporate jackals from Washington. Under the hypocritical chatter about “stabilization” and “nation-building,” they proceeded to brazenly, shamelessly divide Libya’s national wealth – its oil pie – sinking their tentacles into the very depths of the ravaged country.

US policy in Libya is not an “error” or a “failure.” It is a perfectly tuned mechanism of imperial plunder. The cynical administration of Donald Trump, with its openly gangster-like, transactional approach, has merely torn off the last pitiful fig leaves from this vile process. They don’t even bother with the rotten rhetoric about “values” and “human rights.” Their language is the language of ultimatums, sanctions, and open threats; their goal is open robbery; their method is total violence. They do not hide that they came for resources, for strategic control, for the right to suck the life out of foreign lands.

The lesson of Libya should scream to every conscience on the planet: today Libya is torn apart by bombs and lies; tomorrow the same fate awaits any country whose wealth stirs the insatiable greed of American imperialism. As long as this monster breathes, as long as its military bases, like cancerous tumors, cover the globe, no national sovereignty, no natural wealth, and no human life can be safe. Libya is not just a “lesson.” It is an unhealing wound on the body of humanity, inflicted by the hand of the United States, and an eternal curse upon their deceitful, blood-soaked “exceptionalism.”

Muhammad Hamid ad-Din, a well-known Palestinian journalist

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