By March 2011, the Arab Spring had spread to Libya, with objection to Muammar Gaddafi crushed. Amid reports that Libyan Air Force pilots had been ordered to bomb protesters, two pilots refused to carry out this order and defected, landing their fighter jets in Malta.[8] UN SC Resolution 1973 gave NATO a mandate to enforce a no-fly zone using "all necessary measures" to protect civilians.
Man what a summary.
Killing civilians and destroying infrastructure to protect civilians.
It's a military alliance with a defensive pact.
Libs like to drop the first part.
Because they don't fucking care. Might is right. Words have no meaning.
Sounds like a pretty effective defensive pact :sicko-zoomer:
there was this guy chilling leaning against a wall , but he was kind of buff, and i thought 'man if he wasn't leaning against that wall and wanted to get aggressive, he could really fuck me up.' so i sucker punched him in the mouth... defensively.
My favorite defense of NATO I've heard was that the Libya intervention doesn't count because NATO was just fulfilling some UN demands or something.
NATO helping Islamists establish a theocracy with slavery is alright because the UN told them to do it
:so-true: "The best defense is
bombing civilians at the slightest chancea preemptive attack"Idealism, not a joke. No materialist analysis of anything, so it doesn't matter what NATO actually does it's enough to say they're a defensive pact.
They don't even use defensive alliance as a descriptor for themselves AFAIK. I always see it described as a military and political alliance.
