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Western countries armed rebels and denied Libyan military their own air space with a no-fly-zone. Hardly a lack of involvement…

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sure but the Libyan people started the civil war and there is no evidence any of Gaddafi's crazy gold schemes had anything to do with the civil war (or later western intervention)

With enough weapons, psyops, and funding, you can start a civil war anywhere. With overwhelming military force, you can make the civil war end in the way you want.

Consider that if the US was in Libya's relative standing, an external actor of such magnitude could easy have interfered to make Jan. 6 into the start of a civil war. If then you have a foreign country getting involved militarily, it can end however you want. This is true of basically any country in the world.

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