The conclusions that Moscow eventually drew from its engagement in Libya could be summarized as the West is not to be trusted—once they pocket your concession, they ignore you; the United States and its allies have no compunctions about going beyond the limits set by UN resolutions; Americans and Europeans are guided by grand but faulty ideologies and petty interests, as they lack strategic vision and fail to foresee even the immediate consequences of their actions. Thus, going forward the Libya experience would not be repeated in Russia’s foreign policy. These conclusions had an immediate
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