The Blogs: Faisal Feituri Hopes to Redraw Libya’s Future with Contracts, Not Guns

WASHINGTON, DC — The map of the 21st century is not being redrawn with tanks or treaties, but with spreadsheets, strategic minerals, and partnerships.

At its center stands a figure few in Washington’s foreign policy establishment had anticipated: Faisal Feituri, a Libyan-American technocrat who talks about nation-building the way Silicon Valley talks about scaling startups.

As president of the Libyan American Coalition, Feituri is quietly pushing a vision for Libya that replaces tribal warfare and European dependency with local governance, solar energy grids, and a “Council of Elders.”

Every Libyan citizen, he said, will become a “stakeholder in the nation, entitled to a share of the nation’s annual profits.”

“It’s not about ruling,” he said during a recent meeting near Capitol Hill. “It’s about fixing.”

A Boardroom Revolution

Feituri’s reform plan, dubbed “The National Coalition Framework,” outlines nine target sectors for reconstruction—agriculture, healthcare, renewable energy, financial services, and more.

He talks of rare earth independence, of Libyans profiting from their natural resources instead of watching foreign companies siphon wealth under vague humanitarian mandates.

His tone is administrative. His language borrows from tech accelerators not diplomats.

“If every citizen has a stake, if every village manages its resources, if every child sees a future—it changes everything,” Feituri said.

Under the plan, cities would compete in digital ecosystems to outpace one another in development. The country’s untapped reserves—lithium, cobalt, solar potential—would no longer be leased under sweetheart deals, but processed in-country and audited under a national ledger.

Trump’s Map Without Armies

Feituri’s timing, some say, is uncanny.

President Donald J. Trump has reshaped the Republican Party’s foreign policy doctrine. Gone are the Wilsonian dreams of global democracy-building.
In their place: transactional diplomacy, reshoring supply chains, and pursuing soft hegemony through energy deals and tax incentives.

Where past presidents promised world order, Trump maps out profit margins.

And in this vision, Libya—once a cautionary tale of failed intervention—is seen as an opportunity.

Trump allies speak of Libya not as a battlefield but as a “rare earth partner,” a nation that could, if stabilized, provide a counterweight to European economic decline and Chinese mineral dominance. Greenland ports, Canadian integration, and African extraction zones form the skeleton of “a hemispheric fortress of production and supply.”

Feituri’s goals fit into this: fewer treaties, fewer entanglements, no European middlemen.

“We’ve got the cobalt,” one Libyan Coalition official said last week in a private briefing. “You’ve got the cash. Let’s talk.”

From Aid to Autonomy

It’s a shift from dependency to negotiation, from being someone else’s humanitarian case to becoming a partner.

“When they told Faisal America was changing the rules, he said, ‘Finally,’” said an advisor close to the Coalition. “Libya’s been waiting to stop being someone else’s resource and start being its own force.”

What’s more surprising is who’s listening.

Feituri has held informal sessions with congressional staffers, American energy executives, and diplomats from Canada and Japan. One Department of Commerce official, speaking anonymously, called the Libyan plan “ambitious, but increasingly aligned with where US trade policy is going.”

Among the consultants he works with is Roger Stone, the longtime Trump consultant.

Feituri doubles as a lobbyist under the Dolton Fonseca Group

He retained Jesse R. Binnall, known as a high powered Trump lawyer, who helped win a Washington DC-based case in defense of Kalifa Hafter, the commander of the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army.

Faisel Feituri and Khalifa Belqasim Haftar
Libyan-American politician and military officer (Photo Courtesy Frank Parlato)

Hank Sheinkopf, the political strategist and public relations professional.

Retired United States Navy vice admiral, Michael Thane Franken, the former Deputy Director of Military Operations for the United States Africa Command In 2020.

A Cold Exit for Europe

As the US seeks to bypass old frameworks like NATO and the World Bank in favor of bilateral, deal-by-deal relationships, many see Africa slipping from Europe’s sphere of influence.

“Europe’s soft power rested on postcolonial guilt and institutional leverage,” said one analyst. “That’s not enough anymore.”

Feituri avoids labels. “We don’t need charity,” he said. “We need contracts.”

Roger Stone and Faisel Feituri – Photo Courtesy of Frank Parlato

The End of Nostalgia

If there’s a unifying theme between Trump’s “America First” realism and Feituri’s Libyan overhaul, it is nostalgia is dead.

Trump is cutting away from the alliances of the Cold War. Feituri is cutting away from dependencies of the post-colonial era.

The future, under this arrangement, may look less like a military alliance and more like a supply chain—modular, and efficient.

Libya, once a cautionary tale, now appears on the ledger again. Not as a war zone, but as a potential cornerstone in a different kind of empire—one made not of colonies, but of contracts.

And at its center is Faisal Feituri, a man with no militia, no throne, no flags. Just a clipboard, a map of mineral fields, and a plan to turn a broken country into a functioning enterprise.