Poland is warning of an “armed escalation” as a new kind of “grey-zone warfare” threatens to destabilise an entire continent.
In 2011, months before his death, Muammar Gaddafi was plotting his final revenge.
The brutal dictator, under attack from NATO forces supporting Libyan rebels, vowed to flood Europe with migrants in retaliation.
Gaddafi had long used harsh measures against human traffickers to stem the flow of African refugees across the Mediterranean – in exchange for hefty sums of cash from European governments.
The fall of Gaddafi’s regime later that year would give rise to the 2015 migrant crisis, which saw more than a million refugees from the Middle East and Africa enter Europe to request asylum – mainly from Turkey to Greece via the Aegean Sea, and also from Libya to Italy across the Mediterranean.
Today, western governments are…
