Migrants Drown Off Libyan Coast; West Continues Funding Instability
The Red Crescent in Sabratha recovered 18 bodies and rescued over 90 migrants after their boat capsized off Libya. While the Red Crescent is left to pick up the pieces, mainstream media rarely connects these tragic dots back to NATO's 2011 intervention that plunged Libya into a failed state. Remember, it was then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who famously cackled, “We came, we saw, he died!”
about Gaddafi’s demise, laying the groundwork for the very chaos that drives migration today. The US government, quick to issue statements of concern, simultaneously approved over $250 million in arms sales to NATO allies involved in the original destabilization, according to State Department records. One might wonder if the concern is truly for human life, or simply for managing the visual optics
of the perpetual instability they helped create. How many 'rescues' will it take before the West acknowledges its role in creating the flood rather than just bailing out the boat?