Russia's Rommel: Libyan National Army Commander Khalifa Haftar

        Nostradamus, Quatrain 1.9:

         From the East will come the African heart 
        To trouble the Adriatic and the heirs of Romulus [Italy],
        Accompanied by the Libyan fleet,
        The Maltese temples and nearby islands evacuated.

​Ever wonder why there are a number of Nostradamus quatrains dealing with the hair-raising specter of large-scale Libyan and "North African" attacks on Malta, Sicily, Italy, Greece, France, Spain and even Britain? At one time Nostradamus commentators applied such quatrains to the late Libyan dictator Moammar al-Gadhafi, yet even for him the events described seemed implausible as he lacked any realistic capability to carry them out. Also, they certainly do not conform to any Middle East conflict currently in progress or in danger of starting.

While international attention, especially in the US, has been focused largely on the Syrian Civil War and the aftermath conflict developing between Israel and Iran and their proxies Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, another war has been being waged since 2014 in Libya with one side supported by the United Nations and the other by Russia. 

General Khalifa Haftar (also Hefter or Hifter) is the figure towering over all others in the complex confrontation between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and the Government of National Accord (GNA), which included a bloody war and siege of ISIS by Hafter's forces between 2014 and 2016. Hafter is positioning himself to take control of Tripoli by early 2020 and become Libya's next dictator. The LNA has had the backing of Egypt, France and UAE for some time, but increasingly in the last year has Russia become Haftar's key ally.

And this is where the prophesied Libyan-led North African war against Italy and other southern Europe countries, islands, and regions makes sense. In any future war between Russia and NATO, which would certainly be World War III, Khalifa Haftar could have the same value to Putin or his successor in southern Europe that General Erwin Rommel had to Adolf Hitler in North Africa.

Libyan officials collect evidence of Russian fighters in civil war

Officials in Libya's U.N.-supported government say they plan to confront Moscow over the alleged deployment of Russian mercenaries fighting alongside their opponents in the country's civil war. Libyan and U.S. officials accuse Russia of deploying fighters through a private security contractor, the Wagner Group, to key battleground areas in Libya in the past months.

They say the Russian fighters are backing commander Khalifa Hifter, whose forces have been trying for months to capture the capital, Tripoli. The U.N.-supported Government of National Accord is based in Tripoli.

Wikipedia: "Haftar has been described as "Libya's most potent warlord", having fought "with and against nearly every significant faction" in Libya's conflicts, as having a "reputation for unrivalled military experience" and as governing "with an iron fist".

As such a potentially major figure, it is possible, as I have mentioned in past articles, tweets, and emails (but not in well over a year) that Khalifa Haftar, also called Hifter, IS THE REAL "HISTER" OF NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAINS. Is it possible Nostradamus was not referring to Adolf Hitler with his designation Hister (with the long "s" looking like an "f" as "Hifter" in the medieval spelling he used), but instead intended to represent someone named "Hifter": Libyan General Khalifa Belqasim Hifter?

I first warned of him on this site back on December 14, 2014 in my blog article ​Westward Move by ISIS and Confrontation Involving Hifter Following Nostradamus Script Perfectly: HISTER IS NORTH AFRICAN?

​Hister is called "the great one of Africa" which fits Haftar/Hifter much better than Adolf Hitler should he be Russia's spearhead into southern Europe during a Third World War.

Nostradamus, Quatrain 2.30

One who the infernal gods of Hannibal
Will make be reborn, terror of mankind:
Never more horror journals will not say
Of Babel past than will come to the Romans.

​Nostradamus, Quatrain 4.68

At a nearby place not far from Venice,
The two greatest ones of Asia and Africa
From the Rhine and Hifter will be said to have come,
Cries, tears at Malta and the Ligurian coast.

Things are becoming dangerous enough in Libya to start a major confrontation involving Russia, NATO and possibly the United States in a war that may pit Libya and Egypt against NATO ally Turkey:

Libya's Hifter declares UN unity deal 'thing of the past'

CAIRO - Libyan commander Khalifa Hifter on Monday declared a landmark United Nations-brokered agreement to unite the country "a thing of the past," and pledged his authorities would move toward creating a new government. Hifter's televised statement threatens to deepen the schism between eastern and western Libya and to complicate further the U.N.

Turkey's Gains in Libya Will Feed Hifter's Fire

Assessments Fighters loyal to the U.N.-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) celebrate in Sabratha, Libya, after seizing the coastal city from Khalifa Hifter's rebel troops on April 13, 2020. (MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP via Getty Images) TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE Copyright © Stratfor Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

Germany's Merkel meets Libyan military commander Hifter - 660 NEWS

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Libyan military commander Khalifa Hifter in Berlin on Tuesday in a bid to advance efforts to secure a lasting cease-fire in Libya. An administration backed by Hifter's forces controls most of Libya's east and south, while a U.N.-backed but weak government in Tripoli holds a shrinking area in ...

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“The Assad regime has handed over the Libyan Embassy in Damascus to the self-styled government that backs Hifter, the leader of illegitimate armed forces [in Libya], becoming the first administration to recognize that government.”

Libyan Government of National Accord announces moving from defence to attack against Haftar's forces

The Minister of the Interior of Libya's Government of National Accord, Fathi Pashaga, has confirmed that they will move from defence to an attack plan in the coming period to expel the forces of the retired Major General Khalifa Haftar and his militias.

Haftar opens Libya embassy in Syria's Damascus

The Libyan embassy in Damascus resumed work today after eight years, SANA news agency reported. The reopening ceremony was held by a delegation of the Tobruk-based government headed by Brigadier General Khalifa Haftar as well as a Syrian delegation.

Assad joins forces with Libya's rogue general Haftar to combat 'Turkish aggression'

A delegation representing eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar met Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem in Damascus, state news agency SANA said. "A memorandum of understanding was signed... for the reopening of diplomatic and consular missions," SANA said. Libya has not had any representation in Damascus since 2012, following the fall and killing of dictator Muammar Qaddafi in an uprising.

A Police State With an Islamist Twist: Inside Hifter's Libya

Khalifa Hifter, the military ruler of eastern Libya, is trying to take over the entire country. To see what that would look like, we paid a rare visit to the part he already controls. A billboard depicting Khalifa Hifter, the 76-year-old military commander known in Benghazi as "the Marshal." Credit...

Turkey rapidly succeeds in taking over Libya conflict - analysis

Just weeks after Turkey's parliament approved deploying troops to western Libya after Turkey signed a controversial Mediterranean deal with the embattled government in Tripoli, Ankara is now the central player in Libya. Nine years after he overthrow of the regime of Muammar Qadaffi, Ankara has transformed the Libyan conflict in weeks, more than many countries have accomplished in years.

Haftar ordered to sink any Turkish research vessel - Libya's navy chief | Ahval

"I have an order... as soon as the Turkish research vessels arrive, I will have a solution. I will sink them myself. I have this order from Haftar," the Libyan Navy official said.

Hifter's war with ISIS is long over, now he fights to control all of Libya and become its new Russian-supported dictator. Thus, we may either be witnessing the end of Khalifa Hifter's career should the GNA and Egypt triumph over the LNA and Egypt ... or his true beginning as a major player in our next world war.