I think Putin has Obama by the short hairs. Which would be some sort of karma, I suppose. The US has been bullying everyone on the planet for so long. I think all bullys should eventually get their comeuppance, and the US is no exception.
"He <Putin> had to be aware the Empire would strike back." It's always about money, isn't it? And that applies from Iran/Mossedegh in the 50's to MLK who began to shift from civil rights to economic rights when he aligned himself with the garbage workers. I think that was the last straw for the oligarchs/banksters and he had to be taken out. JMHO.
And Gaddafi was not the monster portrayed, generally, on DU. But it was about economics, again. The Libyan people, under Gaddafi, had the highest human development index of any country on the African continent. Now, after our meddling, by all reports it doesn't even have a functioning government.
We've moved on from Libya to impose the same pattern on other countries, again and again and again. And where is the journalist who can report from 'on the ground' in Libya as to what it's like there now? Well, we're done with it. Move on. Hillary said, "We came, we saw, he died. <cackle, cackle>" I will NEVER forget that. UGH!!
The criminal enterprise, Goldman Sachs, came to Libya and screwed them over. Gaddafi's people sent them packing, to the extent that they <Goldman> had to have security escorts to the airport. I guess if anyone Googles "Goldman Sachs + Gaddafi" They'd find it.
That little incident,and that Gaddafi wanted a pan-African bank probably sealed Gaddafi's fate. Enter the jackals.
Re: Libya, I would recommend a book, "Slouching Toward Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa. I had to order it through inter-library loan from another part of the state. I had to return it after 3 weeks and couldn't finish it. It's not that I couldn't read it in that amount of time, but it was too painful to read in more than small bites. I may be able to get it thru an Amazon secondary seller for an affordable price.
I am so sorry to go on and on, but there is so much that can't be said in GD without being set upon by the harpies. I hope that doesn't happen here. My apologies.
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