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Fourteen years since the revolution, Libya’s institutional framework has undergone near-total dissolution, as evidenced by the state’s effective surrender of responsibility for core sovereign functions to nonstate actors.

Not every proverb that sounds plausible is necessarily universally true, and “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” which is thought to originate from an Indian Sanskrit treatise, the Arthasastra, dating back to around the 4th century B.C., is no exception.

Nearly 150 days after returning to the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump is no closer to brokering a lasting peace between Ukraine and Russia than he was on Day 1.