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Transactional politics imply cutting deals with coup leaders and warlords whose crimes are their credentials.

The country has been divided by power struggles and currently has two governments - a UN-recognised one based in Tripoli, and another in the country's east backed by warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar.

Instead, it brings the 17th century society vividly to life through a historically accurate spoken and visual language, which includes thousands of costumes for warlords, armies, peasants, courtesans and a bunch of shipwrecked European sailors.

Mr. Prigozhin, a caterer turned warlord who grew rich on state contracts, was an unlikely messenger.

The Americans empowered warlords, corrupt politicians and outright criminals in the name of military expediency.