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Why was he so based?
Andrew King
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Robert Cooper
Almost forgot:
Benjamin Evans
People should see the sections on Gadaffi from Adam Curtis's new documentary. He's a kinda sad figure really and not one who should be taken to seriously.
Also everyone should know the story of how Gadaffi hired Green Berets to train terrorists and assassinate his political enemies including in Colorado.
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Kevin Reyes
Why was the US all like "Gaddafi has to go"?
I have heard that Libya had Scandinavian style social democracy in North Africa under Gaddafi. I didn't know their Social democracy was actually that robust. So much for all that bullshit from people who say that Social Democracy can only exist under imperialism. Libya was a third world country and they made Social Democracy work
Hudson Baker
They were missing the democracy part and this could only be done because of all the oil.
Blake Gutierrez
Except Gaddafi was literally elected by a people's congress.
Jordan Edwards
Two main reasons.
Firstly Gadaffi attempted to form a united African union.
A united Africa would be just about the most powerful nation on earth in terms of sheer resource abundance and associated wealth.
This would threaten western (and Chinese) industries such as the diamond trade.
Second, he attempted to create a gold backed currency.
The only reason the US dollar is so valuable is due to the petro-dollar arrangement (basically an agreement that oil will only be sold in US dollars on the international marketplace).
If Libya were to switch over to selling oil with a gold back currency, it would undermine the petro-dollar system and as such American economic influence.
Jacob Ward
Really the arms for Libya controversy in general is something that should be more well known, like other known deep state actions.
Aiden Rogers
Imperialism will do that to a person. When everybody else in the world is after you, you have nothing else to rely on but solidarity with your people.
Gavin Morales
Only people i have ever seen praising Gaddafi are westerners. I know plenty of libyans and they hate him. Never even seen a arab who liked him kek. Why do so many leftists always praise these authoritarian dictators?
I guess tankies gonna tank