Showing posts with label Gaddafi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaddafi. Show all posts

Thursday, May 3, 2018

The Trump administration just sent a dark, threatening message to Kim Jong Un - Business Insider

US National Security Adviser John Bolton said he favors a "Libya model" when dealing with North Korean denuclearization. Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, gave up weapons of mass destruction, but fell from power when the US and others backed an uprising against him. Gaddafi was violently and sexually assaulted before his death in the wake of the uprising. At the time North Korea said Gaddafi's fate showed why Pyongyang should keep its own weapons. ....
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admins-bolton-sends-dark-message-to-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-2018-4


Saturday, March 4, 2017

The US intervention in Libya was a key turning point for Putin in his attitude toward the US (Business Insider)

The 2011 American military intervention in Libya was a turning point in Russian President Vladimir Putin's attitude toward the US, according to a lengthy report from The New Yorker examining Russia's interference in the 2016 US election. The intervention was spearheaded by the secretary of state at the time, Hillary Clinton, who persuaded President Barack Obama, wary of war with yet another Muslim country, to join a NATO-led coalition in ousting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-us-libya-intervention-hillary-clinton-2017-2







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