Marakesh ð“…¦ on Nostr: The book I'm reading ("The World: A Family History of Humanity" by Simon Sebag ...
The book I'm reading ("The World: A Family History of Humanity" by Simon Sebag Montefiore) curiosly states "Qaddafi, fearful that he was next for the Saddam treatment, surrendered his nuclear programme: he was welcomed into the western family."
How can he say Qaddafi "was welcomed into the western family" when, in the same book he notes: "On 20 October, near Sirte, NATO got him. Qaddafi, wounded and hiding in a drainage pipe, was captured, wounded in the stomach, then, filmed on a smartphone, sodomized with a bayonet and finally shot dead. Watching the video of the tormented tyrant, Putin saw himself: ‘You could end up losing Russia. Qaddafi thought he’d never lose Libya but the Americans tricked him.’ So this was American freedom: ‘All the world saw him being killed, all bloodied. Is that democracy?’" 🤨
How can he say Qaddafi "was welcomed into the western family" when, in the same book he notes: "On 20 October, near Sirte, NATO got him. Qaddafi, wounded and hiding in a drainage pipe, was captured, wounded in the stomach, then, filmed on a smartphone, sodomized with a bayonet and finally shot dead. Watching the video of the tormented tyrant, Putin saw himself: ‘You could end up losing Russia. Qaddafi thought he’d never lose Libya but the Americans tricked him.’ So this was American freedom: ‘All the world saw him being killed, all bloodied. Is that democracy?’" 🤨