What the fuck is going on?
It it just me or are we heading into a situation where everyone is involved in some or other major conflict?
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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The US was the world police. It was often joked about, but it had some legitimacy. Particularly after the fall of the Soviet Union, their unquestioned military hegemony kept the awful parts of the world cowed into Pax Americana. Every time the US shows weakness, dictators and warlords and terrorists become bolder. Putin's seizure of Crimea and the Donbas and Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal all made America look very weak, and they started preparing their own plans.
Now, with Trump dismantling the US from within, in ways that are probably irreparable in most of our lifetimes, the age of Pax Americana is certainly dead. The world will return to widespread conflict until somebody else steps up with enough military power to police the world to some approximation of their standards (maybe Europe, maybe China), or until it fractures into relatively stable rival groups at cold war with each other (Putin's much desired "multi-polar world") or until conflict becomes so violent and/or widespread it is simply the new normal which we'll probably call World War 3, or some combination of these possibilities.
The US killed Gadaffi and then this happened to Libya. You are inversing reality.
Every time the US shows weakness, dictators and warlords and terrorists become bolder.
Warlords and terrorists like Netanyahu?
Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal
Wait for one fucking second. Did you want Trump to stay in Afghanistan?
I do of course have answers to those questions. They might even be answers you would be satisfied with. But I'm not sure I really want to answer if you're going to be so aggressive about responding. Feel free to use your imagination and assume the worst of me, I'm sure it will be very productive. Maybe consider cooling your rhetoric a few degrees.
This is an internal Libya situation that has been going on since Gaddafi was taken out, essentially like in Brazil, if you take out a leader there's a power void and gangs fight to fill it
I duno why I didn't just quote the article
Libya plunged into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The oil-rich nation has been governed for most of the past decade by rival governments in eastern and western Libya, each backed by an array of fighter groups and foreign governments.
It was always burnin' since the world's been turnin'