(You never replied back/even kept your promise to read to me in the other thread despite your promise. so i will put you on ignore because of this stupid thread)
Saddam/Iraq attacked Iran and Kuwait. Iraq under Saddam was an imperialistic state that tried to steal the oil of other countries and annex land. Iran never received reparations. Why you forget this?
(i am stupid for wasting my valuable time, so I am quick and less thorough since you do not even appreciate correct information)
Arab League demanded the Libya operation: UN security council approved it. all un countries should have participated, but like it always does, the burden fell on western taxpayers, since western white people are the most generous people and others want not to contribute to UN appeals.
The Security Council today effectively authorized the use of force in Libya to protect civilians from attack, specifically in the eastern city of Benghazi, which Colonel Muammar Al-Qadhafi has reportedly said he will storm tonight to end a revolt against his regime.
news.un.org
The Security Council today effectively authorized the use of force in Libya to protect civilians from attack, specifically in the eastern city of Benghazi, which Colonel Muammar Al-Qadhafi has reportedly said he will storm tonight to end a revolt against his regime.
The Arab League last weekend requested the Council to impose a no-fly zone after Mr. Qadhafi was reported to have used warplanes, warships, tanks and artillery to seize back cities taken over in what started out a month ago as mass protests by peaceful civilians...
Acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which provides for the use of force if needed, the Council adopted a resolution by 10 votes to zero, with five abstentions, authorizing Member States...
Only Qatar and UAE participated with their own airforces despite many other arab countries demanding action (but not willing to contribute).
en.wikipedia.org
USA has not invaded Syria, it has small number of special forces to help combat ISIS which every country opposes. Turkey has invaded and occupies parts of Syria. Russia bombs civilians in Syria along with Syrian government. USA helped the Northern League win against Taleban in their civil war. Then US troops invaded. but US invasions mean that democracy is established like in Italy, Germany, Japan which are still occupied by the USA. So the US occupation of Afghanistan meant that the Afghan people got the power. Many development metricts improved significantly since 2001 in Afghanistan. Taleban government was not recognized by almost any country pre-2001 (Pakistan did but not others) and post 2021.
You are moron comparing invasions of Afganistan and Iraq 2001 and 2003 by the USA with Russian invasion of Ukraine 2014 and 2022. USA did not intent and execute annexations. Russia invaded to get more territory, population. Comparable would be if USA invaded Canada and annexed the English-speaking parts of Canada. Libya is a totally different thing. First, UN-approved intervention in civil war to protect civilians as requested by the Arab League. Then interventions in the next phases by Egypt, Turkey, UAE, Russia etc. Turkey wants to take gas for itself and supported the government with which it made a maritime border deal good for Turkey. Turkey gave weapons and diplomatic support for the Tripoli government vastapalveluksena.
the US intelligence community did not have firm evidence of Iraq still having chemical weapons but Iraq-opposing countries feeded wrong information to the Bush administration hoping that US would deal with Saddam finally. But even without Weapons of mass destruction, Iraq was like Hitler's Germany, attacking other countries for annexing land. Iraq should have been dealt with by the UN already when they attacked Iran.
BTW:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_attacks_against_Iran
Iraq also gassed Kurds etc.
I have been against all kinds of interventions. Don't forget the Saudi and UAE war/intervention in Yemen. I have been against it also from the beginning. One exception is Ukraine. I have been supporting UN (impossible, since Russia has a veto) NATO intervention in Ukraine since day 1. if nuclear weapons did not exist, NATO would have participated in the war. Similar kind of intervention was needed when Iraq invaded Iran. Korea is the example of what needed to happen to Russia's invasions of Ukraine and Iraq's invasion of Iran.
(personally I was against the intervention in Bosnia, bombing of Serbia, invasion of Iraq in 2003, UN-approved intervention in Libyan civil war. My country Finland did NOT participate in any of these. only in UN-approved peace-keeping missions like we have done since the beginning of UN. If Bosnian Serbs kill muslims, it is internal affair and needs no foreign interventions. if serbia kills albanians in kosovo, no foreing intervention should be there. if gaddafi kills opponents after he was winning the civil war, no intervention again, internal affair of that country. if the communists in china want to take the rest of the country, it is internal matter of china. if finland starts eliminating the swedish-speakers, internal finnish affair(, but probably eu and nato would militarily intervene))
Turkey bombs Syria and Iraq, why don't you guys complain about that? Saudis bomb Yemen and you don't care. Turkey has no right to bomb and invade other countries if others also don't have that right.
Russia is the only imperial european country left. Russia still has not lost its empire like Spain, Portugal, UK, France lost, because those had areas overseas while Russia has land connection to its possessions of other countries. Russia quite successfully Russified the occupied lands of other nations. if Spain had land connection to south america, spain could still be like russia is today.
USA is too nice. It could and should invade and annex Mexico, annex the whole North America, take Greenland without paying etc. Russia and Saddam's Iraq would do that if they were able to. But US is not like that. It bought Alaska and Louisiana
and still have not annexed even Puerto Rico taken from Spain in a war in 1898.
US could have annexed Iraq and taken the oil, but did not do so and Chinese companies mostly only participate, because the Iraqi government gives so bad terms and conditions to foreign oil companies.
Similar to US leaders, Russian leaders won't be tried for war crimes. Putin has only been tried because of kidnapping children, not for war crimes and genocide which he also is doing. Turkey also is not a ICC country like the US, Russia etc. What war crimes Bush, Blair and Obama did? starting a war is not a war crime! obama did not start wars? bush did start in Afghanistan and Iraq. US should have withdrawn from Iraq already in 2003 or at the very latest when Saddam was found. Instead they were there until 2011 (combat missions ended in 2010).
US did not ban the arabic language in iraq and afghan languages in afghanistan. russia has tried to eliminate the ukrainian language for centuries. in finland russia mandated that all government language must be russian only but we fought back and Lenin gifted independence to finland which the current putin administration says was a mistake by Lenin.
