i've only got as far as this bit and already the hypocrisy and stupidity of the empire is beyond my imagination;

Having sponsored the 2011 ‘humanitarian’ regime-change in Libya and reducing the North African country to chaos and civil war, the US is now protesting the alleged presence of Russian troops there as “incredibly destabilizing.”

That was the claim on Tuesday by David Schenker, the assistant secretary for near eastern affairs at the State Department. He told reporters that Russian regulars were being sent to Libya “in significant numbers” to support the Libya National Army (LNA) and said that “raises the specter of large-scale casualties among the civilian population.”

Schenker’s concern for the lives and well-being of Libyan civilians is especially touching, given that the US was one of the driving forces behind the regime-change operation in 2011 targeting the government of Col. Moammar Gaddafi. Few can forget then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cackling ghoulishly when she was informed of Gaddafi’s brutal murder at the hands of US-backed ‘moderate’ rebels.

Even when the “humanitarian” fallout reached out to claim the lives of four Americans at the consulate in Benghazi in 2012, Washington shrugged. Their murders were blamed on a YouTube video and Clinton famously sneered at Congress, “what difference, at this point, does it make?”It has been estimated that some 25,000 Libyans were killed just between March and October 2011, and who knows how many more since, as the country went from one of the most prosperous in Africa to a chaotic wasteland dominated by warlords. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) was drawn to the chaos, and reporters even found open-air slave markets at one point.

Now, however, as General Khalifa Haftar – who lived in the US for 20-plus years, mind you – and his LNA seem poised to reunite the country and brush aside the US-backed “national unity government” that clings on to the capital and not much more, Washington is suddenly concerned for Libyan lives? Please!

The US obsession for blaming Russia for absolutely everything – from the 2016 presidential election to apparently Libya now – would be ludicrous were it not so destructive. CNN even reported that “Russian mercenaries backing Haftar” may have shot down a US drone over Tripoli last week, citing anonymous Pentagon sources, of course. The network did not retract the claim even after the LNA claimed responsibility itself on Monday, and even offered to coordinate its operations with the US going forward – hardly the modus operandi of “Russians,” that.............https://www.rt.com/op-ed/474408-russia-destabilizing-libya-hypocrisy/