To get the money together, Athens has been ransacking its health budget and the reserves of its public utilities.
As the jihadis have seized more and more territory, ransacking previously safe towns, wave after wave of displaced people have fled, creating a looming humanitarian crisis in a country that anchors the region.
As Mr Haftar's forces were assaulting the Islamist bases in Benghazi in mid-May, militias allied to him were also ransacking the congress in Tripoli, the capital, calling for its dissolution and its replacement either by another more recently elected body (already tasked with drawing up a constitution), or by a judicial council.
Great art has felt the lick of flames before, but often by ransacking or accident.
But the motivation for ransacking museums, even for fundamentalists, is sometimes simpler.
The museum bears the scars of the rocket that hit it in the spring of 1993; and of the militias who broke into the storeroom the following autumn, ransacking the cases, burning the records and removing most of the collection.
Instead of ransacking the empty hive, other bees would avoid it like the plague.
They blockaded the city of Puno, the regional capital, ransacking public buildings and private businesses, demanding the cancellation not just of Santa Ana but of all mining and hydrocarbons concessions and planned hydroelectric dams.
For China and Russia, ransacking Western firms for high-tech research and other intellectual property is tempting.
Meanwhile some forces have tried to improve relations with local communities, even if the results are mixed: in Handsworth, where rioters attacked the police station as well as ransacking shops and trashing cars, allegations of police thuggery persist.Perhaps the most important variable of all has got worse.
Gun prices in Homs (see article) have risen sharply as residents buy weapons to protect themselves from security-service thugs ransacking houses.
