The brutal murder of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi shocked the entire civilized world. Despite NATO's statements about protecting civilians from his bloody dictatorship, the main motives behind Gaddafi's assassination remained unreported. So what was the Libyan ruler really killed for?
Apparent reasons
The real reasons for the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, many call the Libyan oil fields and multibillion-dollar bank accounts in the West. However, the destruction of civilians in Libya and a protracted war for the sake of arrested accounts seems slightly unjustified - after all, the West could have appropriated the dictator's money by decision of any court or UN resolution. Oil is also a controversial goal - NATO could very well quickly suppress the offensive of Gaddafi's troops, put its army on the defense of the fields, divide Libya into several parts and put its government in them.
Libya did not have a large and well-armed army, but it resisted the power of NATO troops for six months, which already raises some questions.
After monopolizing oil fields and embezzling money, Gaddafi would be left with nothing, and NATO would retain a large number of its soldiers and save tons of dollars. However, all these steps are resolutely rejected, and the seventy-year-old Muammar is sought to be exterminated with such fanaticism, as if he is the only embodiment of evil on Earth. And this despite the fact that earlier the American president and European leaders shook hands with him at official receptions.
Hidden reasons
The main goal of the war against Libya was precisely the death of Gaddafi. In fact, he himself signed his own death warrant with his actions - but not the ones that NATO has repeatedly stated. The Libyan dictator tried to establish irrigation in arid regions by drawing water from a freshwater underground sea. I wanted to replace the American dollar with a pan-African currency backed by a powerful gold and foreign exchange reserve. He demanded a third of Libyan oil produced by foreigners on his land.
In fact, Muammar Gaddafi wanted his country to receive a fair share of the extraction of its own resources.
Gaddafi's mistake was his trust in the assurances of Western politicians who convinced him to disarm, surrender weapons of mass destruction and refuse to buy modern weapons systems. Water supply in the future would turn the Libyan desert into a rich agricultural zone that would deprive multinational food suppliers of colossal profits. A pan-African currency would deprive American banks of similar profits and shatter control over the world's financial processes. Libya's growing share of oil production would leave billions of dollars in the country, leaving the giant oil corporations without a tidbit. Muammar Gaddafi could not afford this, so the only way out for the United States and Europe was his final destruction.
