What would a modern Italian Libya look like?

ben0628

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Let's say after Italy loses Work War Two, Libya was able to keep its fairly large Italian population (over 100,000 Italians, about 15 percent of the country's population). Had it been able to keep its Italian population, how would it have developed?
 
I have a feeling you'd have ended up with a Mugabe-like figure in the 70s or 80s rise to power and basically try to disenfranchise the Italians.
 
Let's say after Italy loses Work War Two, Libya was able to keep its fairly large Italian population (over 100,000 Italians, about 15 percent of the country's population). Had it been able to keep its Italian population, how would it have developed?

I have a hunch that once oil is found the percentage of Italians will increase. From the 1930s onward, the Italians treated the Libyans quite decently and they fought with distinction in WW2. Italy could perhaps successfully integrate Libya as the fourth shore if they do everything right. If they don't, however, decolonization could get ugly (making Portuguese Angola look like a walk in the park).
 
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i understand this as 'libya' is no longer a colony but the italian population remains. btw, what happened to them after 1942, iot? does everything else stay the same as iot? alternately, brits allow an italian cyrenaica or tripolitania, as a bone to the badoglio government; something like an anglo/italian libya? lead balloon, maybe.
 

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I have a feeling you'd have ended up with a Mugabe-like figure in the 70s or 80s rise to power and basically try to disenfranchise the Italians.
Too close from the mainland. Unless this Mugabe like figure would have a USNavy or Royal Navy on his side, or Italian mainland is in dire straits because of something, he would be well within operational range of Italians.
 
Let's say after Italy loses Work War Two, Libya was able to keep its fairly large Italian population (over 100,000 Italians, about 15 percent of the country's population). Had it been able to keep its Italian population, how would it have developed?

Believe it or not, the country in 2011 looked probably more developed than we could ever manage. Ghadafi made more than colonial Italy would ever thnk of - despite having doing much of that through Italian companies and expertise.
 
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