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Libya Enters the War on US side conducting Its First Ever Unmanned Boat Drone Strikes on A Russian Tanker. The tanker sank. A true surprise of this war. Russia's LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz just got hit in the Mediterranean, off Malta's coast. Moscow says Ukrainian unmanned boats launched the attack from Libyan shores. This is not a coincidence. It is the direct consequence of Libya being pulled into the US orbit through energy deals and military arrangements that have made it a de facto Western outpost in the central Mediterranean in the past 6 months. The timeline is tight and deliberate. In January 2026, Tripoli signed a 25-year, $20+ billion oil development deal with TotalEnergies and US-based ConocoPhillips. That deal aims to boost Libyan production by 850,000 barrels per day and generate $376 billion in lifetime revenue. It came on top of a US-backed $235 million infrastructure push for Mellitah's gas corridor to Europe and renewed ExxonMobil/SLB contracts in upstream services. The message was clear: Libya is being rebuilt as a Western-aligned gas and oil supplier to Europe while Russian volumes are squeezed. Simultaneously, Khalifa Haftar's eastern camp signed a $4-4.6 billion arms deal with Pakistan JF-17 jets, drones, tanks brokered with Gulf backing and parallel US engagement. Now the Russian tanker gets hit from Libyan waters. Moscow accuses EU states of complicity, but the real target is clear: Libya has become a permissive environment for Ukrainian and Western operations against Russian energy logistics. The Murmansk-to-Mediterranean route was supposed to be Russia's sanctions workaround. Libya's coastlines, now hosting US-aligned capabilities, just turned it into a contested space. Libya is now a party to the war on the US side. Libya Will definitely face Russian retaliation and I suspect will seek to disrupt Libyan exports to Europe which will increase demand for US energy. These plots are so surreal they seem from movies.