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Originally Posted by Catfish
Indeed it seems what "the west" did (maybe with good intentions) finally destroyed a lot of infrastructure, killed a lot of people, and destabilised countries and whole regions for decades to come.
Ghaddafi made the mistake to try to sell his oil in other than dollar currrency  |
Thou Shalt not betray the mighty Petro Dollar.
That ships pretty much sailed now though.
I dont know, on the one hand Its unrealistic to rag too hard on any nation just for looking out for its own interests. They/We all do that and there will always be winners and losers there.
The problem with protectionism really occurs when the benificeries are fewer than the victims. (In many cases 'VASTLY' fewer with a disprortionate severity of victimisation on those negitivly impacted.)