at the university of kent at this time joining us from cambridge thanks very much for being with us here on r.t. you know it's noticeable how gadhafi seems to be at the moment playing chess and giving interviews all with an air of somewhat aloofness now how is he remaining so calm especially when other arab leaders crumbled so quickly in similar circumstances. well i think to understand the difference we have to realize that in egypt there was of course the powerful army that pushed. president mubarak and that hasn't yet happened in libya but the defections are showing that gadhafi support within the regime is clearly declining i think the other reason why he seems so carl is because i think he does suffer from dangers to lucian's he does think of themselves as somehow untouchable and it's very clear that india and all dictators all autocrats all tyrants sooner or later. removed by by their own people or somehow removed by outside forces very few actually survive until their. sort of physical death in all day and i think the same will happen we could afy idea will be betrayed or some att

force khadafi out well that's according to dr agent perhaps he's a political lecturer at the university of kent the german government realize its previous stance of just sitting on the fence and somehow abstaining isn't really working i mean the russian president he clearly didn't think that gadhafi had much religiously and that's what he said at the summit of the g. eight germany's move i think is belated but it stephanie welcomes the factions are showing that gadhafi support within the regime is clearly declining i think the other reason why he seems so card is because i think he does suffer from dangers delusions he does think of themselves somehow untouchable he's clearly hoping that there will be some kind of repeat of the nineteen ninety nine scenario over kosovo where nato bombed for seventy eight days and nothing much change on the ground except for lots of destruction and of course it's usually civilian population that suffers the effects of destruction not the leadership and of course what happened in ground troops made all the difference but it is clear that the moment the nature of