Greece must intervene politically and militarily in Libya by supporting rival factions

 

If we want the Turkish-Libyan memorandum to be cancelled, we have the opportunity now. We just need to invest politically and militarily in the intra-tribal and intra-religious conflicts taking place in Libya.

Recently, new armed conflicts have erupted between opposing factions in Tripoli. Greece has every interest in coming into contact with any tribes and factions that are interested in allying with it.

We must fight hard to avoid the Turkification of Libya and its transformation into a neo-Ottoman forward base. Libya must be transformed into a Greek stronghold.

The Greek strategy for the region of Libya at this stage should aim to remain decentralized and fragmented. A strong central government should not be formed.

If, despite this, a strong government does form, separatist movements should be supported, and we should help in the declaration of new small states under Greek protection, thereby reducing Turkish influence in the region.

In any case, armed groups with an anti-Turkish orientation should be strengthened. The determining factor is not their ideology but their narrow self-interest. If they want money and weapons, they should be given them, as long as they align with Greek interests.

Post-Qaddafi Libya is a war laboratory for the nascent Greek Hegemony. Greece can have parties, tribes, and factions as allies. It does not need to invest in a centralized Libyan state.

At the same time, it must develop patron-client relationships with movements in the area, where in the future it will ask in return for these movements to act as auxiliary troops for Greece against neo-Ottomanism.

Greece must gain experience in managing alliances with non-state actors. Thus, the young Hellenes will gain experience in strategic competition against the great powers.

When we say "Greece," we do not mean the occupying anti-Greek regime. The formation of bilateral alliances in the region of Libya can be done directly, with peer-to-peer horizontal political connections, bypassing state mechanisms.

Hellenism and Hellenic Hegemony are not identical with nor do they depend on the pseudo-state of the Rômeïkó (referring to the Greek state). They are identified with and depend on the collective and timeless will for power of the Hellenic Nation.