Libya is one place the “Islamic State’s” sponsors believe Russia can’t
get them… In 2011, a NATO coalition led by the United States used its
own engineered regional campaign of political destabilization, the “Arab
Spring,” as a pretext to militarily intervene in first Libya directly;
and in a more indirect way, Syria. US and European forces also “quietly”
intervened in several other nations, including Mali and the Ivory Coast
amid this regional conflagration.