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Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up' (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Gaddafi had his problems but sol massively improved under him. Given we back plenty of much worse dictatorships, it wasn't done for altruistic reasons. It was done because he was giving a cut of the wealth to the masses instead of to neocolonial powers. Incidentally, improving sol and education like Gaddafi was doing tend to trend to democratic transitions over time.

The open air slave markets were a direct result of the intervention. The US backed regime didn't have a democratic mandate and didn't have Gaddafi's entrenched power structures and collapsed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was done because he was giving a cut of the wealth to the masses instead of to neocolonial powers

No, a no fly zone was instated because Gaddafi was ordering air strikes on his own citizens, to the extent that his own representative to the UN asked for the no fly zone:

21 February 2011: Libyan deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ibrahim Dabbashi called "on the UN to impose a no-fly zone on all of Tripoli to cut off all supplies of arms and mercenaries to the regime."

https://web.archive.org/web/20110226113522/http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201102219941/Libya-Politics/libyan-ambassador-to-un-urges-international-community-to-stop-genocide.html

Are you going to continue just making things up?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, the US which is the largest drone striker in the world and where it is explicitly legal for the president to kill US citizens without trial went in with a moral imperative because of air strikes.

Even if the Spanish sabotaged the USS Maine, the Gulf of Tonkin wasn't made up, and WMD were in Iraq, the cassi belle are not the structural reasons why the invasions happened. You're being intentionally credulous because you think US empire benefits you. It doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah to be honest I'm a bit done with your mixture of fact and deliberate fiction to try to assist your ideology.

Here is an actual factual paper on the reasons for the Libyan invasion

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/22/libya-and-the-myth-of-humanitarian-intervention

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12290-017-0447-5

There are plenty of discussion points for you without needing to sprinkle in fiction for good measure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So did you actually read those links lmao? Because if you did you have to acknowledge you were wrong about what you've said in this thread and I was mostly correct according to your links.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you actually read what I wrote?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, that is literally why I brought it up. Is there some subtext to this response I'm missing?