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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Treachery of the West - White men speak with forked tongues

Military Watch:

Ten Years Since the West’s War Against Libya: How it Served as a Warning Regarding U.S. and European Intentions



French Rafale Fighter (top) and
Explosion From NATO Strike on Libya (below)

“You give up your weapons of mass destruction, you stop developing long range missiles, you become very friendly with the West and this is the result. So what does this mean, it means this is a message to everybody that you have to be strong. You never trust them, and you have to be always on alert. Otherwise those people, they don’t have friends. Overnight they change their mind and they start bombing us, and the same thing could happen to any other country" 

- Saif Al Islam Al Gaddafi on lesson to the world of the Libyan War.

February 2021 marks ten years since the beginning of NATO military operations against the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, an African republic founded in 1969 following the overthrow of the country’s Western-aligned monarchy.

The republic had long aligned itself against Western interests, forming close ties with the South African ANC, the Zimbabwe African National Union, East Germany, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan and the Soviet Union among others during its 42 year existence. This included contributions to the Egyptian led war effort against the U.S.-backed State of Israel in 1973, a war with French and U.S. backed Chad which began later that decade, and multiple minor clashes between its own forces and those of the United States in the 1980s.

Libya was widely considered the West’s leading adversary in the Arab world in the waning Cold War years, with the Ronald Reagan administration attempting to assassinate the country’s leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 with a major air strike on his residence.

Following the end of the Cold War and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Tripoli notably changed its position and sought rapprochement with the West in order to avoid potentially being targeted as Iraq had been. The U.S. imposed harsh terms during negotiations including a complete dismantling of the country’s strategic missile and chemical deterrents and intrusive Western inspections of military facilities across Libya – which the Libyan government assented to in the hopes of improving ties with the Western world.



Sudanese, Libyan and Egyptian Leaders Nimeiry, Nasser and Gaddafi

Upon Tripoli’s agreement to disarm, which further included accepting considerable restrictions on its nuclear activities which had been suspected of being a nuclear weapons program, U.S. President George W. Bush hailed the African state as a “model for other countries.” He pledged: “Leaders who abandon the pursuit of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and the means to deliver them, will find an open path to better relations with the United States and other free nations.”

Libya would serve as a model to the world regarding the consequences of disarmament and placing trust in Western guarantees of improved relations, although in a very different way to how President Bush had likely intended.

Little over five years after its disarmament was complete, Libya came under a large scale U.S.-led attack with armed militias and mercenary forces striking on the ground armed and supplied by Western powers as U.S. and European military jets and cruise missiles devastated the country’s infrastructure and military facilities from the air.

Libya was poorly placed to defend itself, with its Western adversaries now having detailed knowledge of the country’s defences and assurance that it no longer had a means to retaliate against Western targets when its own cities were targeted.

Libya had not only provided extensive information on its defences and allowed its adversaries to strip it of its strategic deterrent, but its faith in the security guarantees provided when it disarmed also led it to neglect modernisation of its air defences.

Although the Libyan Air Force had had by far the most impressive inventory of combat jets on the African continent in the 1980s, and was the largest foreign client for the Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat interceptor which was its most formidable combat jet ever exported during the Cold War by measure of air-to-air performance, it had neglected to modernise, service or maintain the bulk of its aircraft or to train sufficient numbers of pilots.



Post-War Libya

NATO pilots had little need to target Libya's large air fleet on the ground, and were well aware that most of the country's aircraft were totally inactive with few trained pilots to operate them. Libya’s air defences were equally meagre, with negligible fortifications, modernisation, or training for surface to air missile crews leaving missile batteries extremely vulnerable to Western attacks.

The Libyan government was toppled soon afterwards and its leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi tortured and killed by Western backed militias operating under French air support. The result in Libya, formerly Africa’s most prosperous country, was over a decade of civil war, the deployment of foreign forces from multiple countries pursuing conflicting interests on its soil, the rise of the Islamic State terror group, and a return of slave markets and human trafficking.

The aftermath of the Western campaign saw anti-government militias carry out a purge of the country’s black ethnic minority with tens and by some accounts hundreds of thousands massacred, raped or sold into slavery.



Photo Allegedly Showing a Slave Being Escorted for Auction in Post-War Libya

Libya’s fate ultimately served as a warning to countries across the world regarding the potential consequences of complacency in the face of a Western military threat, and the inability to entrust one’s security to Western good will or to security guarantees from the U.S. or Europe.

Regarding North Korea in particular, the Donald Trump Administration’s Director of National Intelligence Daniel R. Coats highlighted that Libya’s fate demonstrated why it was strongly against Pyongyang’s national security interests to disarm. He stated that the North Korean leadership “has watched, I think, what has happened around the world relative to nations that possess nuclear capabilities and the leverage they have and seen that having the nuclear card in your pocket results in a lot of deterrence capability ... The lessons that we learned out of Libya giving up its nukes ... is, unfortunately: If you had nukes, never give them up. If you don’t have them, get them.

North Korea’s own Foreign Ministry stated to much the same effect regarding the lessons learned from Tripoli’s decision to terminate its deterrent force and its consequences: “Libya’s nuclear dismantlement much touted by the U.S. in the past turned out to be a mode of aggression by which the latter coaxed the former with such sweet words as ‘guarantee of security’ and ‘improvement of relations’ to disarm and then swallow it up by force.”

Pyongyang believed that in exchange for a lifting of sanctions and better relations Libya “took the economic bait, foolishly disarmed themselves, and once they were defenceless, were mercilessly punished by the West.”



Saif Al Islam Gaddafi

When interviewed during the war in 2011 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif Al Islam spoke of what he retrospectively saw to be the cause of Libya’s downfall, which he referred to as “a good lesson for everybody.” He indicated that despite strong advice from both Iran and North Korea not to give up its deterrence programs, Libya had gone ahead to surrender its ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction – which he referred to this as the country’s critical mistake.

He stated to this effect: “you give up your weapons of mass destruction, you stop developing long range missiles, you become very friendly with the West and this is the result. So what does this mean, it means this is a message to everybody that you have to be strong. You never trust them, and you have to be always on alert. Otherwise those people, they don’t have friends. Overnight they change their mind and they start bombing us, and the same thing could happen to any other country… One of our big mistakes was that we delayed buying new weapons, especially from Russia, it was a big mistake. And we delayed building a strong army because we thought that we will not fight again, the Americans, the Europeans are our friends [since forming positive relations after 2003.]”



Su-30SM '4+ Generation' Fighter - reportedly Libya's first choice for its planned but delayed fleet modernisation

In the aftermath of the Libyan war the country’s immediate neighbours Algeria and Egypt quickly took measures to strengthen their air defences with new Russian fighter aircraft and ground based missile systems.

The launching of an attack on Libya had been almost totally unpredictable given the prior state of Tripoli’s relatively positive relations with the West after its disarmament, which led to growing concerns that other North African states could be next. Iran too, despite coming under intense Western pressure to allow Western inspections of its military bases and accept Western imposed restrictions on its ballistic missile deterrent, drawn a red line against such steps likely at least in party due to the example set by Libya.

Libya’s fate has ultimately served as a dire warning regarding the propensity of the Western powers to launch military campaigns unexpectedly against countries outside their sphere of influence - one which has provided a strong incentive for potential targets to arm themselves regardless of how effective any detente with the West may seem.

Later leaked emails from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton indicated that France, which had led the campaign in its early stages and been the first country to violate Libyan airspace, had been motivated to strike by the need to prevent Libya from establishing a gold backed pan-African currency – the African Gold Dinar. This would have otherwise seriously undermined French influence over its resource rich former colonies of West and Central Africa.

The currently state of war in Libya could potentially continue indefinitely into its second decade, and the consequences of the Gaddafi government's policy decisions which left open to Western attacks have ultimately set the country's development back several decades with much of the wartime damage from Western strikes a decade ago having yet to be repaired.

15 comments:

  1. So KT sympathize with Libya?

    The “west”, after crushing Nazi Germany and Japan, helped them become economic powers all within a few decades. Japan suffered 2 atomic bombs in 1945, but they still allowed 500 yo military bases in their country (albeit nowadays a bit sensitive) By 1968 Japan was already the second largest economy in the world and they hosted the Olympic Games. All this was possible without Japan arming itself militarily. Same for Germany. After WW2 they had a strong non-military policy, and allowed 500 yo Bullyland to have bases in their country. After unification with East Germany their economy was Europe’s largest and is today the richest European country.

    Ditto South Korea. After Korean War, Bullyland bases in South, now they are economic powerhouse.

    So why did Libya fail? Please don’t blame the west. Look within.

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    1. What did Germany, Japan & SKorea have that Libya didn't after their Yankee liberation?

      Libya is located at Northern Africa with only oil as its main natural resources. There is zilch geopolitical benefit for the self proclaimed policeman of the world. No military advantages, no military bases!

      Germany, Japan & SKorea all share the same geopolitical interest uncle Sam in counteracting the influences of Soviet & China!

      Thus, all those military bases firmly planted on these countries w/o questions asked!

      Meanwhile monetary aids, favorite trading terms & blindsided handsoff about the internal injustices were sprinkled all over these vessel states.

      Look within (Libya)!

      Blurred mfer, if yr uncle Sam kept his dirty hands to himself, Libya would most likely achieve some semblances of economic developments that most other African nations would dying to follow.

      And there lies yr uncle Sam's uncomfortable feeling in seeing his opponents/enemies prosper under his nose w/o his dictated direction!

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    2. thats zombie with communist characteristic, here in msia they accuse chinese, similarly in ccpland they accuse the 100 yo 8 nation alliance army.

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    3. "here in msia they accuse chinese"

      Bcoz there r mfering doggie with spurious Chinese origin to usher the ketuanan narratives for their masters!

      That was also happened to that f*cked "100 yo 8 nation alliance army".

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  2. There were no White Men armed boots on Libyan soil, the men shooting other men was all done by Libyans, how you want to blame everything on outsiders?

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    1. How did Libya get to such a state?

      Naturally & (saying quietly) ethnically
      By Yankee asslickers.

      Yankee is the Libyans ultimate savour from evil Gaddafi such that the time under Gaddafi is such a memory that most current Libyans reminisce about!

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    2. maybe libya is not dictatorial enough? msia also quite peaceful n grow well under umno.

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    3. There was a rebellion in Libya, as an outcome of the Arab Spring.

      I treat it as the same as the horrific Syrian civil war, where the West refused to get involved.

      Everyone I bring up the civil war in Syria, left-wing Fanboys immediately want to change the subject.

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    4. What Libyans have suffered not due to the state of its dictatorship BUT the depth of its demoNcracy influences!

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    5. "I treat it as the same as the horrific Syrian civil war, where the West refused to get involved."

      Wakakakakaka…

      How wonderfully & clever(by half) to absolve the West, especially yr uncle Sam's shitty hands in Arab Spring rebellions!

      Change the subject?

      How blurred r u?

      Or too intoxicated with Yankee farts?

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  3. Alas, Gaddafi failed to heed Henry Kissinger's important advice : " To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal ". This failure tragically wrecked Libya for a generation.

    'Libya's ongoing destruction belongs to Hilary Clinton more than anyone else. It was she who pushed President Barack Obama to launch his splendid little war, backing the overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi in the name of protecting Libya's civilians.

    When later asked about Gaddafi's death, she cackled and exclaimed : "We came, we saw, he died"

    Such monstrosity of a woman. Is she even human. Another woman US Secretary of State, Madeline All-Not-Bright, when asked during an interview after the Iraq war, she replied tranquilly : " Yes, it was worth it, the death of 500,000 Iraqi children". What's with all these inhuman bitches ? That Nancy Pelosi is another one who exclaimed upon seeing Hong Kong burning descending into ruinous mayhem not too long ago : 'Oh, What A Beautiful Sight'.

    Even now Libya continues to suffer....Hilary's malignant gift, as so aptly put by the writer, keeps on giving. Such is the cost of America's promiscuous war-making.

    Wherever AmeriKKKa goes, it's incessant meddling brings death and untold suffering.

    Read the next following posting, especially relevant to US worshipers :



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  4. Title : Mr Blinken really had blinkers on

    " The problem is NOT China, but the US.

    The US has conned the world for far too long, with its smooth and sweet rhetoric through the control of the media, with grandiose moral high grounds of human rights, freedom of speech, democracy etc. when itself is among the chief violators, not only in the US itself but throughout the world.

    The US on false pretexts bombed up Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen ( through its proxies ) among others, created the human refugees catastrophe for which Europe had to bear the brunt of handling it.

    The US for decades had been an Evil Empire, it is actually the bull in the China shop. It has also destabilized many Latin American countries, and now karma has shown up at its own southern borders with refugees.

    I agree that Mr Blinken is a better looking version ( Version 2 ) of Mike Pompeo, but they are the same, carrying out the wishes of the American Military Industrial Complex.

    They are above the laws and do what they like. In short, they are the big bully and now the rogue on the International Stage.

    At the recent meeting in Alaska, the US delegation was told to fuck off. China gave the US a longer lecture in rebuttal.

    The US asked China not bully America's lapdog Australia by imposing tariffs on Australian goods, but it's OK for the US to impose tariffs on Chinese goods. The Australians are now feeling the pinch and the US is now trying to get Australia out of the ditch, more crudely put... out of the shit that the Americans pushed the Australians into.

    The world now needs China more than China needs the world...that's a debate by itself for another day.

    The US has resorted back to gunboat diplomacy.

    Apart from forming Quad, the US had asked and both Britain and France had just obliged by each sending a warship into the Pacific Ocean, from its very depleted fleet.

    This time around, China will not be intimidated. The Americans are sadly mistaken, that just because the West won the Cold War against the Soviet Union, they can win the Cold War, the Trade War against China.

    China is the giant that Napoleon predicted will awake one day and it has now woken up.

    (continue next...)

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  5. China has delivered 700 to 800 million people out of poverty whereas more and more Americans have fallen below the poverty line.

    Is food and shelter not a basic human right ?

    China's progress did not come from the exploitation of other countries like colonisation, rape and plunder and destruction of other countries, but through the hard work and the sweats, toils and tears of the Chinese peasants and people.

    Don't forget the suffering of the 60 million 'lost and damaged' generation of China. These were the children who were 'abandoned' by their fathers and mothers who left their countryside to work in the factories in the cities and the economic zones. The children don't get to see their parents for at least a year or longer at a time....a tremendous social price that was being paid so that American consumers can enjoy cheap goods.

    At rallies after rallies, Trump retched up anti China and anti Chinese sentiments, by accusing China of raping, plundering and robbing Americans because of repeated annual trade deficits for years of about US 550 Billion.

    The question the world can ask is.... did China point a gun at the US to force it to buy Chinese products, unlike the time the West forced China to buy its opium.

    The US bought Chinese goods because it benefitted the American consumers....it helped to keep inflation down in America. What Trump did not tell the American public is that each year, US companies in China reaped in revenues to the tune of US 750 Billion.

    Who forced the American companies to go and operate in China ?

    The West , America and Europe have developed at the expense of AAA ( African, Asian, Aboriginals ) countries and peoples...through colonization, exploitation, killings, slavery etc.

    Enough is enough, the 500 years' curse is over.

    The 21st Century is the Asian Century.

    Biden had called Putin a killer and President Xi a thug.

    The truth and the irrefutable fact is the Americans and the British have killed the most number of innocent people in all of human history.

    How can America, a nation of about 240 years lecture a 5000 years old Chinese civilization ?

    The Wild Wild West foreign policy of the US will this time not work against China's Sun Tzu "Art of War".

    Sadly, the US today is the world's biggest terrorist and gangster and a threat to international peace and human civilization.

    Time for America to Repent.

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  6. The worst outcome of the Arab Spring is Syria.
    The Arab League estimates 400,000 killed from the Syrian civil war.

    There IS a White Man butcher in Syria, and it is called Russia.

    USA only got involved in Syria years down the road, to eject the murderous ISIS Zombies.

    Every time I bring up the subject of Syria , left-wing Fanboys immediately want to change the subject.

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    1. Wakakakakaka…

      U know Syria?

      &

      "There IS a White Man butcher in Syria, and it is called Russia."

      Wow!!??

      "USA only got involved in Syria years down the road, to eject the murderous ISIS Zombies"

      Double wow!!!

      Old moneyed mfer keeps to yr fart lay & don't blame others to try to correct yr hp6 twists if inconsequential. I'm sure nobody is laughing at this changing subject diversion.

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