Reply #42: You sadly very well be correct despite other comment from my research. [View All]

[PufPuf23]

Russia, China, Brazil, India, and Germany abstained from the UNSC vote, hence 10-0 with 5 abstentions.

Libya had recently entered negotiation to sell oil to Brazil, India, and China with no oompetition from the Western nations. Itly and France are most dependent on Libyan oil and Germany buys as well.

Quadaffi had supposedly been on board regards to WMD and the WOT and had been armed by France and Italy since 2003.

I am all for a free and open democracy in Libya.

However, I would wage more innocent lives will be lost or damaged and more infrastructure damaged because of the intervention than had the issues been settled internal to Libya.