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The stone-colonnade of the Benghazi embankment - the eastern capital of Libya, which became opposition stronghold during the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 - is filled with the light of streetlights. My Libyan friend Ramzi specially suggested to meet here in the evening to show me the level of security on the street: one can walk to one's heart's content. In fact, I remembered this embankment as such, when I left Libya 8 years ago. Only then was it full of people with weapons, machine-gunning everywhere because of the excess of feelings and revolutionary significance. Along the road there were pickups that were loaded in such a way that Hollywood decorators would burn with an envy cat at the sight of such an invoice. Recoilless guns, helicopter pads under unguided rockets, and MLRS systems were installed on chassis ...
The deafening holiday reigned in the city - the offensive of Gaddafi's forces was disrupted by concerted "humanitarian bombings" of the NATO coalition, the traces of which stretched along the road to the West - to Tripoli - along the coast.Tens, if not hundreds of miles of burned equipment, among which I with surprise did not find any air-defense vehicle. The leader of Jamahiriya was surely about his success - a little longer, and he will crush the flower of democracy that sprouted through the asphalt with this stupid amount of equipment. He did not even think to cover the military against the air. The country was flooded with weapons, but nobody was able to fight with a serious opponent. And also did not plan to. But the West dragged through the UN Security Council a resolution of a "no-fly zone" over Libya (formerly Russia abstained, without using the veto), which in practice meant that no one could fly, except the combat aircraft of NATO.
Comment: There is an environmental crises occurring on our beloved planet, but following the ideological and nihilistic solutions provided and followed by groups like 'Extinction Rebellion' are both wrong-headed and dangerous.
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