RT.com – Aug 17, 2023
Western powers committed a major blunder by helping to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in a 2011 regime change operation, Italy’s top diplomat said, admitting his death unleashed years of chaos and conflict in the African country.
Speaking on the sidelines of an event in Tuscany on Wednesday, Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani described Libya’s troubles since Gaddafi was overthrown and murdered, saying he was “certainly better than those who arrived later.”
“It was a very serious mistake to let Gaddafi be killed. He may not have been the champion of democracy, but once he was finished, political instability arrived in Libya and Africa,” he said. The official noted that Rome had kept an agreement with the leader which “blocked the migratory flows and the situation was much more stable.”
Gaddafi was brutally executed by rebel fighters amid a NATO bombing campaign, conducted under the pretext of imposing a no-fly zone during Libya’s 2011 civil war. Though Washington and its allies described the mission as a “humanitarian” effort to end government attacks on civilians, a probe by the UK House of Commons later found that the “threat to civilians was overstated,” and that Western powers had ignored a “significant Islamist element” among the anti-Gaddafi militants.
In the aftermath of the regime change operation, Libya was divided between several competing governments, each claiming legitimacy to rule. The factions have continued to fight in the years since, eventually consolidating under two camps led by the UN-backed Government of National Accord, and forces loyal to General Khalifa Haftar and the Libyan House of Representatives.
Terrorism also saw a resurgence across North Africa following Gaddafi’s death, with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and groups linked to Al-Qaeda establishing strongholds in Libya and beyond. By July 2014, an estimated 1,600 militant factions were active in the country, a major increase from the 300 tallied in 2011, according to the US Institute of Peace.
Though the two warring governments have been locked in a stalemate in recent years, Libya continues to face periodic bouts of violence, with clashes between rival armed groups leaving 27 dead and over 100 injured earlier this week. Echoing previous statements, the United Nations voiced concern over the “security incidents and developments” in Libya, while Washington called for “de-escalation” to “sustain recent Libyan gains toward stability.
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From what I’ve read online, Muammar Gaddafi did more for the good of his country and people than any of our rulers have done for the good of the country and the people of the UK in recent years. I’m not saying he was a saint, far from it, but he gave more to his people to make their lives easier; whereas our rulers take more and more from the citizens of the UK thus making life more and more difficult for them. 😢
The west did NOT help in the murder of Muammar Gaddafi add the genocide of his country, the west was reponsible. Amerika, Canada, France, Italy and others did it!!!
Once AGAIN, another disaster lies squarely in the lap of that perennial war-mongering entity ZOGUK and its then Prime War-Criminal… that sleazy scumbag cock-sucker Cameron.
It’s high time that Europe realised that ZOGUK is its enemy – and always has been – and took appropriate action…. like reducing it to to rubble!
All Italians should understand what that scumbag witch Hillary Clinton and that phoney-monkey-boy Obama, along with their zionist handlers, have done to Italy, as a result of destroying Libya.
Why was Muammar Gaddafi a better man, a more skilled leader, and more intelligent than most American Presidents, senators, and congressmen of the last fifty years or so?
And the way they killed him! You can probably think of a few sitting and wannabe world leaders who actually deserve something like that! Quite a few!
Gaddafi loved his country and wanted the best for the African continent.
Keeping NATO out was why he was murdered.
Certainly the criminality of NATO and it’s shit-house media did not go unnoticed by the Russians.
in the meantime USA robbed all
Libyas gold . only this counts for the jews .
Champion of Democracy?
The biggest crime committed this past 40 years throughout the world is “democracy”.
Everything under the banner of democracy is an abomination, mass murder, zero morals, mass faggotry, drug abuse, wars, transgenderism, mass racism against white people etc
Gadaffi is a saint compared to western leaders.
He also got rid of zionist usury.
A serious mistake’ by who? Not by the ‘western powers’ (as this article attests)–since their geopolitical/biological goal is to inundate Europe with millions of simian negroes & mongrels from Africa..
Funny how you’ll see TTS posting new stories from RT. As if the Russian mass media isn’t owned/managed by the same transnational cabal of Yids that control the mass media of USA/UK/EU…
The murder of Gaddafi was not a mistake. It accomplished exactly what it was supposed to accomplish: Chaos and destruction.
The Western Economic Formation (WEF) is all about asset stripping the individual or those outside of the Establishment. The high cost of living, toxic va666ines, gender bending, pedocracy, poverty is all by design.
Biden has $150bn for escalating a war in a country with zero strategic importance for the US but not a single dime or comment for the people suffering from fires in Hawaii. At least Gaddafi made sure his people were protected while he was alive.
Huge underground water aquifer that could have turned North Africa green but it was bombed shut.
Gaddafi is not dead
Mystic and Yogi
Killing Ghaddafi was murder, and a serious crime by Jews – like JFK.
I think the world should start assassinating Jewish leaders like Netanyahu.
How many millions has Netanyahu killed with all his wars? Satanyahu was the brains behind 911 and the wars.
How many Amerikans did Ghaddafi kill? ZERO.
The Jewish MSM fake media lies about who the enemy is.
Killing Gaddafi was no mistake.
1) Gaddafi threatened the Cabal with his proposed Gold Dinar.
2) Gaddafi’s death and the ensuing chaos it caused allowed the illegal migrant floodgate to be busted wide open and Europe flooded with Africans.
As usual there was no mistake there was only “their” plan being executed.
@ Sam. You’re right but theres a bit more to it.
Libya sits atop the Nubian Aquifer – the single largest fresh water deposit in the world after Lake Baikal. When europe’s water is poisoned by fracking or some other method and rationed to force the people into the bloodstained hands of the globalist government, this will be one of the reasons why there’s no escape.
But Ghadaffi’s great crime in the eyes of the lords of money magic was his attempt to introduce a gold-backed pan-africana currency and dispense with the petro-dollar for trading oil produced in African states.
The question that SHOULD be asked WHO organised one of the biggest robberies in history…..the GIGANTIC theft of the contents of the Libyan Central Bank?.
A similar type of robbery happened when the Spanish Central Bank was robbed of its Gold Reserves during the Spanish Civil War.
Was Hillary Clinton involved….recall that an American diplomat was killed in Libya at this time.
Was it organised Jewry in both cases.
The answer to these questions will unlikely ever be answered…..all things considered.