Saudi Arabia’s bitch!

What is Iran going to do about the dead children in Yemen? Will they continue to support war and the Houthis?

The country can't possibly recover as long as the Houthis are there.

Why doesn't Iran open its doors to them?

To say that Yemen cannot recover while Yemenis are there is moronic- unless you're a cheerleader for murder, dismemberment, invasion and infanticide. Strangely enough- you fit this bill.
 
What started off as protests against Gaddafi's rule quickly descended into an armed conflict as security forces, loyal to Gaddafi, clashed with protesters, using warplanes to bomb them.

As protests entered their second week, almost 300 civilians were reported to have been killed.

The increasing number of civilian casualties led the United Nations to pass a resolution that designated Libya a no-fly zone. The resolution also called for the protection of civilians by any means necessary.

On March 31, NATO began carrying out air strikes as a result of the UN's proposal to protect civilians.

After the conclusion of the operation, a UN report found that 60 civilians were killed by NATO air strikes and 55 wounded. The report also states that NATO did not carry thorough investigations regarding air raids that killed civilians.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/happening-libya-today-170418083223563.html
 
Turkey's Secret Proxy War in Libya? | The National Interest

Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni accused Turkey last month of sending weapons to his Islamist rivals who seized the Libyan capital of Tripoli last year ..

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/turkeys-secret-proxy-war-libya-12430

bya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni accused Turkey last month of sending weapons to his Islamist rivals who seized the Libyan capital of Tripoli last year. “Turkey is a state that is not dealing honestly with us,” he told Egyptian television. “It’s exporting weapons to us so the Libyan people kill each other.”

These accusations are not new. In January, the speaker of Libya’s Parliament claimed, “Turkey still supports the terrorist militias in Libya.” In December, a prominent Benghazi-based activist claimed that Ansar al-Sharia in Libya, a faction loyal to al-Qaeda that has carried out acts of political violence against the recognized Libyan government , is partially funded by “businessmen linked by trade ties to Turkey.”

Two weeks ago, the acting interior minister of the embattled government in Tobruk claimed that Turkish and Qatari aircraft are flying in and out of the Mitiga air base, which is controlled by the opposing Dawn coalition, amounting to “clear and explicit support” for terrorism in Libya.

The Libyan Civil War, which began after Qaddaffi’s fall, is often described as a proxy war, with Egypt and the United Arab Emirates reportedly backing al-Thinni and the officially recognized government in Tobruk, and Qatar and Turkey reportedly backing the Islamists and other opposition factions.

Turkey has made no secret about backing the country’s Islamists after Qaddaffi’s fall in 2011, and it openly liaises with the self-declared Islamist government in Tripoli. Yet Turkey’s Libyan envoy complains that these latest allegations are a “ dangerous smear campaign .”

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seems to be about supporting Libya's General National Congress ( Libya Dawn) which is pretty much done as an entity -replaces and subsumed by the Government of National Accord..

Interesting though..we always think of Qadafi weapons stashed being smuggled out of Libya-
not weapons smuggling in
 
Buoyed by the other revolts in neighbouring Arab countries such as Tunisia and Egypt, Libya's popular uprising against the authoritarian rule of Muammar Gaddafi began in February 2011.

What started off as protests against Gaddafi's rule quickly descended into an armed conflict as security forces, loyal to Gaddafi, clashed with protesters, using warplanes to bomb them.

As protests entered their second week, almost 300 civilians were reported to have been killed.
pure lies.
it wasn't a popular uprising - it was some protestors in Bengazi, but the "popular uprising"never was.
Proof is the NTC never gathered popular support, even as we battled Qadafi across the coast.

There was no "bombing of protestors" who wern't part of the war in Bengazi.
Qadafi even told them to leave -those that didn't became combatants
 
Witnesses in Tripoli told Al Jazeera that fighter jets had bombed portions of the city in fresh attacks on Monday night. The bombing focused on ammunition depots and control centres around the capital.

Helicopter gunships were also used, they said, to fire on the streets in order to scare demonstrators away.

Several witnesses said that "mercenaries" were firing on civilians in the city, while pro-Gaddafi forces warned people not to leave their homes via loudspeakers mounted on cars.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/02/201122261251456133.html
 
pure lies.
it wasn't a popular uprising - it was some protestors in Bengazi, but the "popular uprising"never was.
Proof is the NTC never gathered popular support, even as we battled Qadafi across the coast.

There was no "bombing of protestors" who wern't part of the war in Bengazi.
Qadafi even told them to leave -those that didn't became combatants

What did the US have to gain from a civil war in Libya? There were 7 oil companies in Libya pumping 1.3 million bpd.

Really.. Tell me how the US or any other country benefited from the implosion of Libya?
 
pompeo said it best:

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said

"It's a mean, nasty world out there — the Middle East in particular. There are important American interests.
To keep the American people safe. To protect Americans ... It is the president's obligation ... to ensure we adopt policies that further America's national security."
https://www.axios.com/mike-pompeo-t...bia-3e72c7e0-9110-45e8-9361-a6f986abd4b1.html

Trump is practicing realpolitic -i would expect nothing less

IDIOT.
MAKE TRUMP GREAT AGAIN
 
Why is that bad?

American Oil Investors, Engineers, Drilling companies, and wildcatters won't even bother to get off their ass if the cost of crude is over $100!

That is their bottom line and cutoff point.

It has been for about the last 40 some odd years!

Because of higher production costs of tar sands and tracking.
 
Trump is walking the thin line he has to.
If I recall the CIA said MbS "might have known" but there was no proof either way.
( pardon me if I do not swallow CIA assessments after bullshit like Russian collusion as well).

there are 2 competing interests -punishing KSA, and keeping KSA a close ally.
Trump has sanctioned the individuals but not the government...works for me

Licking Trump's asshole works for you.
 
pompeo said it best:

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said

"It's a mean, nasty world out there — the Middle East in particular. There are important American interests.
To keep the American people safe. To protect Americans ... It is the president's obligation ... to ensure we adopt policies that further America's national security."
https://www.axios.com/mike-pompeo-t...bia-3e72c7e0-9110-45e8-9361-a6f986abd4b1.html

Trump is practicing realpolitic -i would expect nothing less

LOLOL.. What a crock.. Poor Pompeo..

What "American Interests" is he talking about specifically?
 
What did the US have to gain from a civil war in Libya? There were 7 oil companies in Libya pumping 1.3 million bpd.

Really.. Tell me how the US or any other country benefited from the implosion of Libya?
The irony is that killing Qadafi indeed do not serve our best interests .recall he was an anti-terrorsit partner also allowing the CIA and SAS to operate freely in the east.

We went in under R2P ( responsibility to protect) doctrine that Albright espoused that was floating around the UN.
It was the main reason for our "humanitarian war"
 
LOLOL.. What a crock.. Poor Pompeo..

What "American Interests" is he talking about specifically?
US/KSA security partnerships specifically in this case;
as well as the geopolitics of the US/KSA/Sunni states checking of Iranian hegemony
 
The irony is that killing Qadafi indeed do not serve our best interests .recall he was an anti-terrorsit partner also allowing the CIA and SAS to operate freely in the east.

We went in under R2P ( responsibility to protect) doctrine that Albright espoused that was floating around the UN.
It was the main reason for our "humanitarian war"

Gaddafi was a terrorist in his own right.. He terrorized the Libyan people. Libya didn't implode because of US plans or ambitions.. Libya imploded because the Libyans had enough of Gaddafi.

Gaddafi was a tyrant, but he had NO impact on the US.
 
So was Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush sr, and Reagan.

But by all means, keep pretending this is new policy and some kind of new ground because you suffer from TDS.
 
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