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NATO attacked Libya in 2011, with disastrous consequences. It's not a defence alliance.

• wesleywt 5y ago
  Strange comment.
• jacquesm 5y ago
  At the behest of the UN security council, and the Libyan government afterwards asked NATO to extend their mission which they refused.
  • rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago
    Based on lies https://www.salon.com/2016/09/16/u-k-parliament-report-details-how-natos-2011-war-in-libya-was-based-on-lies/ https://www.salon.com/2016/09/16/u-k-parliament-report-detai...
  • mardifoufs 5y ago
    Sure but that still means NATO is not exclusively a defensive alliance. Libya was not attacking any NATO member and got attacked by NATO. It seems silly to pretend it's a defensive alliance just because you can justify all of the times it was the aggressor?
• smackay 5y ago
  I can't say anything on whether NATO attacked Libya but it's members certainly dabble in the various conflicts trying to extract advantage. I had a conversation with a "systems thinker" of British origin who straight out said that he was involved in a group that were distributing cell phones to members of the population of Libya so they could call in air strikes against government forces. Apart from the obvious problem of getting NATO to do the dirty work to remove your enemies no matter that faction they belonged to the most striking thing was the arrogance and ease with which this person justified their position. It was a reflection of the thinking from 100 years ago where the British assumed everything they did was with God's blessing and Johnny Foreigner needed to do what they were told or suffer the consequences.