The British own a lot of assets in Libya. They own them with Libyan counterparts, mainly because there is no other way to do business in Libya than this. In 2007 British Petroleum (BP) signed yet another mega deal with Libya for an ‘initial exploration commitment set at a minimum of $900million’. That is just one of the agreements. Details about this are still available on no other than the BP website.

I mention only one asset. One. Can you try and imagine what the total of British investment in Libya amounts to? As many web commentators have said and written, would there have been the same push for a no-fly zone in Palestine if Palestine had oil?

There is also France, which was the first country to ‘recognise the Opposition’. Current.com says the following about Total, the French-owned oil company: “Given the very substantial French oil interests in Libya it is absurd to think that Sarkozy (first and foremost a French Nationalist) did this without either the tacit acceptance of Total or without Total's interests in mind.” French Rafale jets  started a ‘reconnaissance’ visit in Libyan airspace on Saturday.

David Cameron has slowly but surely been building his personal, international and political profile around this issue. As we say in Maltese irid johrog ta’ ragel. Sarkozy, suffering tremendously in the polls and losing votes to Le Pen Jnr on home ground, the same. Cameron came out glowing against the idiocies uttered by his own foreign Minister, William Hague. He is more British than the Price of Wales in his attitude, demeanour and even looks. And like our Prime Minister who wants a penis-extension called the ‘New Parliament at City Gate’, Cameron sees war, or the attack of ‘foreign lands’, as a possible extension for himself.

Meanwhile our Prime Minister, whose stand on the issue I agree with for once, goes on Al Jazeera face packed with make-up, a picture of himself and Kate in the background (obviously strategically placed and looking so out of place I was embarassed) and talking about immigrant 'boats which drowned' (he was specifically referring to the boats not the immigrants). Tonio Borg, our deputy Prime Minister whose views and demeanour I honestly could never stomach, has apparently embarrassed us all by waffling in an interview the gave to Sky. Media training for people in such high national levels is not an option but an obligation. This is not the outdated divorce argument: these are world politics and the world stage we are talking about.

Moroever, the more I write, the more this goes on, the more it becomes obvious that every single person involved and pushing for this is a man, or rather, male. The only woman in this pathetic story, Hillary Clinton, says she will retire in a couple of years and I have no doubt that if Libya had not come along, she may have ticked over for a few years more.

Libyan feedback to the issue is mixed. I have spoken to scores of Libyans over the past weeks and their reactions have ranged from ‘We don’t trust the Opposition either – they were in cahoots with Gaddafi until a few months ago’ to ‘Please come save us’ to ‘Please stay out’.

Malta is being profoundly affected by all this. In the villages around the airport – and there are many – residents were scared to death listening to army planes landing and leaving non-stop during the evacuation process as the media – manipulated and censored as ever, down to the last comment in the blogs – told us that what our ears could hear and our eyes see was a fiction.

My worry is that most people still have not grasped what a ‘no-fly zone’ means in practical terms. I am hardly an expert but from what I have read it means that Western armies and navies will need to surround Libya and bomb their planes out of the sky because there is no doubt that the Gaddafi government will defy and act. It already has.

We hear of Benghazi and Tripoli but you can rest assured that the highest concentration of defense will be going on around the oil fields.

Malta, which has, in its history, found itself bang in the middle of many wars and suffered because of other countries’ interests, yet again gets the attention of the world for all the wrong reasons. This is an overpopulated country of 440,000 people – hardly a large town. Geographically it is both strategically placed…and a victim of its position.

Should Gaddafi and his forces decide to start shooting missiles at British and US forces situated in the Mediterranean, Malta is right there, in the middle of the Sea, waiting to be hit. It will not take us long to be wiped out although with our luck what will finally get us is some friendly fire.

And try as I might, I cannot imagine a situation where we are being ‘accidentally’ bombed and the West decides to come and ‘protect’ us. We may have the oldest free-standing temples in the world but we certainly don’t have any oil.