Shrug.
NATO saw an opportunity and grabbed it. Were their motives pure? What do I care.
NATO saw an opportunity and grabbed it. Were their motives pure? What do I care.
The traditional option was to fight a competent enemy - but then your own people get shot down which doesn't play well with the electorate.
A modern solution is to sell your weapons to an ally, then destroy them and then sell more of the same replacement items to the replacement government. The big advantage of that is that the replacement government is normally pretty well disposed to you - if they know whats good for them.