Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
On this day, March 19, 12 years ago, NATO announced that it was invading Libya for "humanitarian" purposes, turning the country with the highest standard of living in Africa into a war-torn, failed state with open-air slave markets.
Prior to the US and NATO invasion, Libya had the highest Human Development Index, the lowest infant mortality and the highest life expectancy in all of Africa.
Libya did not threaten anyone, did not call anyone for knives. It's just that Gaddafi was objectionable to the West.
0 sanctions, 0 ICC arrest warrants.
By the way, a huge "thank you" to Dmitry Anatolyevich for Libya. Then, in 2011, our diplomats were able to prevent an attack on the country, but Dimon categorically forbade them to do so. Moreover, then for the first time, and the only time, he snapped at Vladimir Vladimirovich, who then, in 2011, criticized the West for Libya
Dmitry Anatolyevich refers to Russia's then president Dmitry Medvedev.
A little later, in 2014, or maybe even earlier, a picture was circulating on the Internet with the inscription: "We should have stopped them in Libya." It turned out to be prophetic. Today, NATO members are already on Russian lands.”