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The major government organization in Afghanistan was actively providing security, aid and comfort to those who organized the attack on the US. Libya was in ord
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
The major government organization in Afghanistan was actively providing security, aid and comfort to those who organized the attack on the US.
Libya was in order to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, which Russia or China could have vetoed had they wished.
Yugoslavia (Serbia) stands.
- pydry 3y agoThe Taliban offered to hand over bin Laden if the US offered evidence of his culpability. It was never a threat to NATO. NATO was not defending itself from Afghanistan. Libya was supposed to be a UN sanctioned humanitarian op. It got silently upgraded to regime change, which is why Putin publicly expressed regret at not vetoing it. Libya was never a threat to NATO. NATO was not defending itself from Libya. Serbia was never a threat to NATO. NATO was not defending itself from... well, not to put too fine a point on it but... Russia's closest ally in Europe. It is not a purely defensive alliance in any sense of the word except an Orwellian one. All of its military operations have been exclusively offensive in nature.