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At the end of the British colonial rule in 1979, he authoritarian socialist Dominik Mintoff and Muhammar Gadaffi already had formed an political and military alliance, Lybia had holdings on the island, an own Radio station and military advisors. Culturally, the Maltese people are Christian , despite the alleged Arabic origin of their language, they didn´t want to become part of an Islamist Revolutionary State like Lybia. Allegedly Dominik Mintoff had ties not only to the Block Free States, but also to the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact and China and even to NATO and the US. It was feared , that a Malta ruled by Mintoff could become a base for Soviet nuclear weapons and fleet in the Meditterranian ( Its like Cuba in the Mediterranian). He was very impulsive in his outer politics and despite loathing the West and espescially Europe, he eventually fell out with Gadaffi. The alliance with Lybia started out as solidarity between to Block-free leaders. Gadaffi thought of the Maltese people as his Arab brothers and saw Malta as part of the Arab world. The love was however not requitted by Maltese people as I already said

What if Gadaffi didn´t fell out with Gadaffi and Lybia and Malta actually merge in some form. How would this influence the Cold War politics ?
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