In this second installment of reporting on aspects of this current international intervention into Libya, the Plaid Avenger attempts to explain the role of the major states and international organizations that have driven the action of this ‘liberating’ project. Led by France (France in the lead?) and the UK, and joined by a hesitant US, these major world players got a resolution passed through the United Nations which cleared the way for the international community to ‘protect’ Libyan civilians from their own government. But this was a very shady deal, indeed! Who voted for it, and who did not? And now that it is passed and military action has been initiated against Libya, who is in charge of this rapidly escalating event? NATO….WTF…NATO? Yeah, this whole business is baffling, and the Avenger does his best to enlighten the befuddled…including himself.
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Keywords: UN, NATO, BRIC, sovereignty, US, France, UK, Germany, BRazil, Russia, India, China, veto, UN Security Council, UN Permanent Security Council members
Libya! Libya! Libya! It’s blowing up with revolutionary spirit and been invaded by international forces in order to stop Muammar Qaddafi from slaughtering his own citizens! We must stop Muammar! We must protect Libyan civilians! Save the Libyans! Liberate Libya!
But wait a minute….this seemingly innocuous and humanitarian mission has mad future repercussions that no one has yet considered. This international incursion into Libya flies in the face of the accepted modern definitions of what it means to be a sovereign state. For decades, if not centuries, no one would mess with the actions of a government inside its own sovereign state unless that state threatened/invaded another state or committed a genocide within its state…and Muammar has obviously not done either. In this episode, the Avenger explains the importance of this Libyan situation to the future of international policies and relations, as we dawn on a new age of redefined sovereignty in the world.
The Plaid Avenger gives a quick assessment of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, but also talks about the wider implications to the rest of the planet concerning this already historic event. Due to the unfolding nuclear crisis being caused by 3 damaged nuclear reactors which may turn into an even bigger disaster than the quake, the world is likely to slow or perhaps even abandon the emerging nuclear power industries, which in turn will make for skyrocketing prices of fossil fuels (Note: the price of oil is currently dropping, as Japan’s demand for oil has evaporated in the short term but don’t look for that to last much longer.) In addition, this epic event in Japanese history is likely to be looked back upon as the time that Japan slipped from its economic/political leadership role as an Asian titan, to a more subsidiary player behind China and other rising Asian powers.
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