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RidderSport@feddit.org 14 hours agoNow that argument implicates that you would like to have Gaddafi still being around. Would you mind elaborating and please also enlighten us on how stable the country was prior to his death.
Objection@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Yes, I would. Or if he was to be removed, that should be up to the Libyans, without foreign interference.
Gaddafi was removed not because of any humanitarian reason but because he stood in the way of foreign interests. Gaddafi asserted Libyan control over Libyan oil and redirected at least some of that money towards the Libyan people (the per capita income in Libya under Gaddafi was 5th highest in Africa), and that was fundamentally unacceptable to the US and its allies, just as it has been in for nearly every country in the region. What they want are states like Saudi Arabia, where the ruling class can be bought off on a personal level to keep the oil flowing while repressing the people.
US/NATO led regime change never produces good outcomes for anyone but oil companies and war profiteers, and that’s by design. If they can’t control it, they can at least deny the resources to others and set an example for any other country that attempts to assert control over their own resources. NATO opened a pandora’s box of chaos and there’s no telling if or when it will end, just as US-led forces did in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
I’d say that you refuse to learn from history and seem dead-set on repeating the mistakes of the past, but again, they were never mistakes. The people making the decisions got exactly what they wanted, it’s only a mistake from the absolutely delusional perspective that intervention in places like Libya, Afghanistan, now Iran, were ever driven by any thought of helping ordinary people.