Incase anyone tells you that lemmy.ml is not a tankie instance.

  • bigboismith@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    Poor Gaddafi was attacked by the corrupt NATO, to the disgust of the rest of the world (except that it was resolution by the UN security council).

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      6 months ago

      Except there is strong evidence that Western powers (predominantly France, the UK and US) created the fiction of Gaddafi being a global supervillain and then used NATO forces to enact regime change in Libya, under the pretext of “preventing civilian casualties”. In fact, the real objective was to secure Libyan oil reserves and open the country up to western markets.

      NATO is often used an extension of Western foreign policy. To pretend it is solely a benevolent peace keeper is just as simplistic and naïve as saying that everything the West does is pure evil.

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        6 months ago

        Gaddafi was a supervillian. Almost literally:

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        It also wasn’t NATO who directly killed him. His own citizens did, and they weren’t kind about how they did it.

        NATO also wants stable oil reserves. Both these things can be true.

            • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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              6 months ago

              No. He might get assassinated by an individual or a small group of conspirators. He won’t get paraded through the streets while being raped with a sword until he dies. But nice try.

              • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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                6 months ago

                It’s weird that some random German thinks they know what American hillbillies are capable of or actively talk about doing when their memory doesn’t even go back more than three years and they have literally zero knowledge of history or the nature of angry mobs.

                Oh, no, wait, that’s not weird, I always forget some people are just average.

                  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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                    6 months ago

                    I removed it because it was an unnecessary insult on the other person’s intelligence. If you feel like restoring it 2 weeks later, that’s fine by me.

                    Oh, no, wait, that’s not weird, I always forget some people are just average.

                    That’s why it was removed.