The feud between the United States and the Qaddafi government has a long history. 1969, Gaddafi overthrew the pro-American Libyan king Idris. 1In June, 970, Libya announced the recovery of the US military base near Tripoli, the capital of Libya. 1980, the United States declared Libya a "state supporting terrorism" and closed its embassy in Libya. 198 1 year, two Libyan planes were shot down by US Navy planes, and the two countries broke off diplomatic relations. 1986, US President Ronald Reagan ordered the suspension of economic and trade relations with Libya and the freezing of Libyan assets in the United States. Since then, there has been a military conflict in Murray, and Reagan ordered an air strike against Libya. 1988 65438+February, a Boeing 747 of Pan Am exploded, killing 259 passengers on board and 1 1 people on the ground, that is, the Lockerbie air crash, which the United States believed was committed by two Libyan intelligence officials (but the parties never pleaded guilty). After Saddam's defeat, the American government got deeper and deeper in the so-called "post-war reconstruction", so it adopted a policy of appeasement to Gaddafi. In the case of coercion and inducement, Gaddafi also chose to give in. Now, the United States has begun to get away from Iraq, and the Egyptian coup has such a good chance that the United States will take the opportunity to push Gaddafi to step down.

Why is America so interested in the Middle East and North Africa? As we all know, the core interest lies in oil. Although Libya is located in Africa, it has close political relations with the Middle East and is itself a big oil exporter. Any turmoil in this region will cause large fluctuations in international oil prices. Since the unrest in Egypt, the price of crude oil has risen sharply, and American crude oil once broke through the 100 mark. After the Egyptian incident, with the stepping down of the country's president, the political situation gradually stabilized and the oil price once fell; However, in mid-February, the unrest began to show signs of spreading to the Middle East, and oil prices rose rapidly. After the riots in Libya began, there was an upward breakthrough. According to The Wall Street Journal, after Gaddafi came to power in the military coup of 1969, he achieved national reunification by force. He also moved the capital to Tripoli and shifted Libya's political focus to the west. Its regime has largely ignored the east, although most of Libya's oil wealth is there.

Libya riots

He also successfully suppressed the growth of other political power centers by reorganizing the whole government regularly, making potential political opponents lose their support base or prestige. As a symbol of his Islamic revolutionary ideology, he also nationalized all private enterprises in the 1980s. According to Libyan insiders, Gaddafi's own tribe controlled some armed forces, and it took them several years to destroy the base of his rival Warfalla. Valfara was once considered as the largest tribal alliance in the country, but this is a thing of the past. Now, when Libya's political loyalty is severely tested, many tribes left out or oppressed by Gaddafi are against him. Several tribal leaders in Valfara have appeared a few days ago, calling on the people to overthrow Gaddafi. The "Al-Zawiya" tribe from eastern Libya also joined the demonstrators over the weekend, and a leader once threatened to cut off vital oil supplies if Gaddafi remained in power.