Bangladesh, Nov. 23 -- Libya is often described as a failed state, a fractured nation divided by geography, ideology, and foreign influence. But this framing misses the deeper, more corrosive reality. Libya is not collapsing because it lacks institutions or national identity. It is collapsing because those institutions have been weaponized in a shadow war over money, contracts, and influence-an internal conflict that has become the countrys true system of governance. What passes for political competition is, in reality, a relentless scramble among armed factions and their political patrons to control the states revenue streams. It is in this unseen battlefield, not along front lines or ideological divides, that the fate of Libya is being ...