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-- replacing one despot with another;
-- preventing democratization;
-- colonizing Libya;
-- controlling its oil, gas and other resources;
-- privatizing its state industries, handing them over to Western interests;
-- perhaps balkanizing the country like Yugoslavia and Iraq - in other words, effectively destroying it for profit and control, as well as using it as a platform to intimidate other regional states to comply fully with Western diktats - or else; and
-- exploiting its people ruthlessly as serf labor.
It's a familiar Western scheme, justified as "humanitarian intervention," what America, above all, doesn't give a damn about and never did, seeking only imperial dominance, no matter how much death and destruction it takes to get it. "Operation Libya" had antecedents, notably in Yugoslavia and Iraq, two previous countries Western powers destroyed and now exploit.
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