What it has in mind is unclear, and may be very well-intentioned.

 

However, after the intervention of the West five years ago and the subsequent anarchy and violence, the last thing the North African oil producer would seem to need is intercession by yet another outside player.

Last week, the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, on its way back from its station off the Syrian coast, slowed just long enough off the Libyan coast to play host to Libya’s would-be military saviour, General Khalifa Haftar.

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