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That feels like a post-apocalyptic story now, remnants of great, more developed civilization.
by f6v 6y ago
That feels like a post-apocalyptic story now, remnants of great, more developed civilization.
- hutzlibu 6y ago"During the second Libyan civil war, lasting from 2014 to 2020, the water infrastructure suffered neglect and occasional breakdowns. As of July 2019, 101 of 479 wells on the western pipeline system had been dismantled" It is not all gone and still somewhat working, but how long?
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- cheph 6y agoRemind me again why the fuck Obama rallied NATO to fuck that country up again and how Obama is still seen as the messiah to socialist and progressives after doing that?
- hulitu 6y agoWhy ? They have oil. Cheap oil. They were competing with the British-American Oil companies.
- f6v 6y agoIt wasn’t just Obama. France, Italy, and Turkey perpetuate the conflict.
- scythe 6y agoObama didn't even "rally NATO" at all. France was the first mover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya#Timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_... >23 February 2011: French President Nicolas Sarkozy pushed for the European Union (EU) to pass sanctions against Gaddafi (freezing Gaddafi family funds abroad) and demand he stop attacks against civilians. >26 February 2011: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 was passed unanimously, referring the Libyan government to the International Criminal Court for gross human rights violations. >28 February 2011: British Prime Minister David Cameron proposed the idea of a no-fly zone >1 March 2011: The US Senate unanimously passed non-binding Senate resolution S.RES.85 urging the United Nations Security Council to impose a Libyan no-fly zone >2 March 2011: The Governor General of Canada-in-Council authorised, on the advice of Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper >7 March 2011: US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder announced that NATO decided to step up surveillance missions of E-3 AWACS aircraft to twenty-four hours a day. France, the UK, the UNSC, the US Senate, and Canada all made moves before Obama's executive branch took any major actions. (Notably, all except the UNSC were controlled by right-wing political parties at the time.) But Obama is the most popular political figure in the country and has been for a decade, and it's lonely at the top... https://today.yougov.com/ratings/politics/popularity/politicians/all https://today.yougov.com/ratings/politics/popularity/politic...
- f6v 6y ago> United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 It's a shame China and Russia voted in favour.
- carschno 6y agoWould you have one example of "how Obama is still seen as the messiah to socialist[s]"?
- billfruit 6y agoSimilar perhaps, the rather extensive rail network in Middle East and Arabian Peninsula which were blown up in the First World war, most of it was never mended.