For nearly fifteen years, Libya has served as the world’s most expensive and repetitive political laboratory. What was designed as a transitional bridge to a sovereign, democratic state has instead institutionalised a state of ‘frozen chaos,’ where the process itself has become a substitute for progress. In this laboratory, the “solutions” concocted in Geneva, Skhirat, Morocco or Tunis often ignore the volatile chemistry of the ground. READ: Libya breaks 12-year oil production record in 2025This potential collapse of the legal system is the inevitable byproduct of treating an entire nation as a laboratory for external experimentation. The recent signing of a historic $20 billion, 25-year oil partnership between the National Oil Corporation (NOC), TotalEnergies, and ConocoPhillips is a case in point.