Who do you think will win? and also whom has the best arsenal?

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Who do you think will win? and also whom has the best arsenal?

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Isn't Turkey 2000 miles away from Libya?

yeah never thought about that

Turkey by far. Turkey is right after Israel in receiving US aid, and they're not Arabs, they have an ancient martial tradition. They have a serious military and world-class military industry. Even before Hillary knocked it over Libya was simply not in the same league.

t. Roach

On top of that, the Turks support the internationally-recognized government in Libya, so they’re more likely to have outside backing should things actually heat up, which they probably won’t.

I'm going to have to second this. That being said the politics of the situation are so perilous, and Turkey is on America's shit-list under the current admin. We'll have to wait and see. Turkish landings in Lybia would be a serious blow for Haftar's side. This is a bad move but unfortunately a seemingly inevitable one from a military perspective. Turkey is the only thing keeping GNA alive at this point so this is a good casus-beli for open Turkish involvement. Shame too, I was rooting for the LNA. This stupid civil-war just drags on and on.

Isn’t the US pretty apathetic about both sides at this point? If anything, the Turks involving themselves against Haftar, who has at least some Russian support, would reassure a lot of American policymakers that the Turks are still on our side.

I kind of think that while the US will let Turkey go it alone, France and perhaps Germany will leap at the chance to meddle in Libya.

t. Ignorant shit-poster that contributes nothing but purveying pointless insults that don't advance the discussion.

Turkey has many faults, but militarily it is nothing to dismiss. Now just wait for all the non-Americans to call this guy mutt and then begin the racialist shit-flinging that pollutes all geopolitical threads on Jow Forums.

>If anything, the Turks involving themselves against Haftar, who has at least some Russian support, would reassure a lot of American policymakers that the Turks are still on our side.
It might, but more likely it will just reassure the Americans that Libya is just somewhere they desperately do not want to be right now, and a mess they do not want to deal with. If I had to guess by looking at the top men in Washington, they don't see any gesture in good faith. Turkey's actions can be viewed favorably, or they can be viewed cynically. Turkey is engaged in a project to resurrect its regional influence in the middle-east, as the predominant Muslim power. Viewed in that light, the propping up the lean-islamist GNA can be viewed as a part of that project imo. I bet you in the next 10 years this moderate islamism is going to have a name. Turkey will go on proclaiming a need for unity underneath the umbrella of this ideology. Such a union of former Ottoman states would give Ankara influence over much of the Mediterranean. It's tempting, and if I had to guess, that's their play, dictatorships can pursue projects like that much more directly than democracies. Anyway, while I think that's their game, I doubt that they'll win it in the long run, if anything the countries they're trying to court will just play Them, the French, Saudis, Egyptians, and Iranians off of one another, throw the occasional American/Russian/Chines intervention into the mix and you can see why the whole objective is a far shot.