Florida Conservative

Puerto Rico’s debt crisis was born of decades of mismanagement, opportunism, and neglect—by local leaders, Wall Street, and Washington alike. But the U.S. now has a chance to correct course.

This white paper traces who benefits from Libya’s fractured oil sector and the parallel human-trafficking economy, and connects these outcomes to the 2011 NATO-led intervention under the Obama administration. Using Machiavellian, liberal‑internationalist, and geoeconomic lenses, we argue that Muammar Gaddafi’s removal was an intervention many Western actors had incentives to pursue, and that post‑war policy choices entrenched a model of managed instability that preserves oil