remember much more recently, when you made a bunch of claims about libya from half-remembered breadtube videos and it turns out you knew fuckall about the subject
i think that if you conduct a civil war by leveling every settlement between the capitol and the border you deserve to die with a bayonet in your asshole
right, immediate proximate cause of the war was him saying the army would go door to door and then indiscriminately shelled aleppo in violation of a un ceasefire
some fucking Libya pilot hated him so much he 9/11'd gaddafi's palace on like day 2 and almost everything us bombed was a military target
the reason it's in the state it's in is because france and the uk who pushed hard for intervention (we were hesitant, most us strikes were b2's and cruise missiles within first two weeks) gave zero fucks about rebuilding
almost all money that flowed in since 2011 was trickled in and gaddafi plunder
once Qaddafi decided to suppress protests by machine-gunning them and then responded to the defection of every military unit east of the capitol by hiring every guy from the Sahel who would take a paycheck to massacre civilians, "libya becomes a warlord state" was baked in
the question was only how many people would die in the interim, and imo i preferred "many of the people who signed on to die to ensure the eternal rule of the Qaddafi family" to "much of the population of cyrenaica."
here's a fun fact: qaddafi stole about 40% of libya's entire GDP over the time he was in office, and funds from his personal accounts returning to libya have frequently outpaced tax receipts as a form of public funding
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Like, if you could sell the subtle nuances of your own fine grain bootlicking we wouldn't be in this mess.
some fucking Libya pilot hated him so much he 9/11'd gaddafi's palace on like day 2 and almost everything us bombed was a military target
almost all money that flowed in since 2011 was trickled in and gaddafi plunder