Monday, March 23, 2020

Rejecting the Caliphate

Egypt is still resisting the Ottoman Empire:

A group of Libyan commandos completed their training in Egypt and returned to Libya with some Egyptian commandos and advisors as well as assault boats and special weapons contributed by the UAE. The total forces consists of fifty personnel and work for the LNA (Libyan National Army). These commandos are apparently going to be used to attack the ships that are transporting Turkish troops and weapons to Libya to oppose the LNA and support the desperate UN backed GNA (Government of National Accord) Libyan government in Tripoli. ...

In late 2019 Turkey began supplying a lot more weapons to the GNA and during the first week of January 2020 began sending troops.

I guess Egypt isn't happy to see Erdogan rebuild the Ottoman Empire caliphate in whatever form Erdogan has in mind.

Egypt did fight the Ottoman Empire a couple times in the 18th century. It looks like Libya will be the battleground for a proxy war that continues the conflict.