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One of these announcements was that of the newly proclaimed [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in 1977. These actions caused some opposition to arise and plots against Gaddafi were made, but the state quickly suppressed then and issued warnings to anyone who may get any ideas.<ref name="Cycle" />
===2011
In 2011, anti-regime protesters, inspired by recent events in [[File:Cball-Egypt.png]] Egypt and [[File:Cball-Tunisia.png]] Tunisia, held rallies in Benghazi to protest the arrest of a human rights lawyer. The protesters called for Gaddafi to step down from his position, leading to clashes with the Libyan security forces and the protesters. To counter the protest, authorities set up a [[File:Gaddafi.png]] pro-regime protest and broadcast it on state TV.<ref name="RevoltBritt">[https://www.britannica.com/event/Libya-Revolt-of-2011 ''"Libya Revolt of 2011."''], Encyclopedia Britannica. 8 February 2022.</ref>▼
These actions caused tensions to rise between the two parties, ultimately leading to the protesters taking control of the city, which, in turn, lead to authorities using lethal force on the protesters and taking other [[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] measures, like blocking access to the internet and interrupting telephone service.<ref name="RevoltBritt" />▼
This rise in violence lead to condemnation from the [[File:Cball-UN.png]] international community, and lots of resignations from Libyan positions, like the Libyan ambassador to the [[File:Cball-UN.png]] UN Many Libyan embassies flew pre-Gaddafi flags in protest and many units of the [[File:StratoHelm.png]] military started to side with the protesters, causing Gaddafi's power to weaken significantly.<ref name="RevoltBritt" />▼
After a while, the protesters got weapons and teamed up with the anti-Gaddafi units of the [[File:StratoHelm.png]] military, forming a full-out armed rebellion, and therefore, starting a civil war. From here, it went downhill for Gaddafi. There were [[File:Cball-UN.png]] international calls for his resignation and the armed resistance, although weak, but with the help of foreign powers, like [[File:Necon.png]] NATO, managed to advance. Finally, on October 12 in 2011, Gaddafi was found and killed in his hometown of Sirte, marking the fall of his [[File:Gaddafi.png]] regime.<ref name="RevoltBritt" />▼
== Foreign Relations ==
=== North America ===
==== [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States ====
Gaddafi and his regime were known for funding groups abroad that alagined with his beliefs, like the [[File:Blacknat.png]] [[Black Nationalism|Black Panther Party]] in the US and the [[File:IrelandHarp.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|IRA]] in Northern Ireland. These activities caused a growing disfavor of Gaddafi in the eyes of the [[File:Cball-US.png]] American government, and in 1986, carried out airstrikes on several sites in [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya, barley missing Gaddafi, but killing many members of his family in the process.<ref name="BioBritt" />
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During the [[File:Cball-US.png]] US invasion of Grenada, [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya sent military advisors to [[File:Cball-Grenada.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Grenada]].
Another one of the regime's foreign relations was in 2009, when Gaddafi was named the head of the [[File:Cball-AfricanUnion.png]] African Union. Almost immediately, Gaddafi's strong [[File:Pan-Africanism.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism#Pan-Africanism|pan-nationalism]] made some members of the union uneasy. He advocated for an extremely strong union of all the member states and the eventual formation of the "United States of Africa", which would function as any other sovereign government.<ref>[https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2009/2/2/african-union-names-gaddafi-as-head ''"African Union names Gaddafi as head"''], Al Jazeera. 2 February 2009.</ref> In 2010, when Gaddafi tried to become the head again after his one year term ended, several African nations pushed back and he was denied.<ref name="BioBritt" />
In the same year as his promotion to head of the [[File:Cball-AfricanUnion.png]] AU, Gaddafi, giving a speech at a [[File:Cball-UN.png]] UN General Assembly, famously tore a copy of the UN charter, causing controversy in the international community.<ref name="BioBritt" />
In 2008, [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Muammar Gaddafi claimed the title of "
==== [[File:Cball-Angola.png]][[File:Cball-Mozambique.png]][[File:Cball-Namibia.png]][[File:Cball-Guinea-Bissau.png]] Lusophone ====
[[File:Cball-Mozambique-old.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|FRELIMO]] and [[File:Cball-Guinea-Bissau.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|PAIGC]], which fought for independence during the Portuguese Colonial Wars, were armed by [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya. [[File:SWAPO.png]] [[African Socialism|SWAPO]] received similar support in the South African Border War, and [[File:Cball-Angola.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|MPLA]] is also known to have cooperated with [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya, although at a lower level.
==== [[File:Cball-Uganda.png]] Uganda ====
The similarity between the African policies of Muammar Gaddafi and [[Nationalism|Idi Amin]], enabled two leaders to establish many economic and military cooperations. [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya supported [[File:Cball-Uganda.png]] Uganda by sending 400 soldiers to the 1972 invasion of Uganda and 4500 soldiers to the Uganda-Tanzania War.
Ugandan Bush War was also among the wars in which [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya participated, by supporting [[File:NRM-Uganda.png]] NRM and West Nile rebel groups.
==== [[File:Cball-Mali.png]] Mali ====
[[File:Cball-Azawad.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|MNLA]], which fought to establish an independent Azawad, also received support from [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya for a short time.
==== [[File:Cball-Chad.png]] Chad ====
[[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya, which supported [[File:FROLINAT.png]] [[Islamic Socialism|FROLINAT]] and many rebel groups during the Chadian Civil War, began to invade [[File:Cball-Chad.png]] Chad in the year of 1978. Muammar Gaddafi's main goals were to annex the Aouzou Strip, turn [[File:Cball-Chad.png]] Chad into a satellite state of [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya, and obtain a base for his Central African policies. [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya has carried out many operations in the region, through the [[File:Islamic Socialism.png]] Islamic Legion.
[[File:Cball-Chad.png]] Chad resisted [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya for a long time, with the foreign support it received from [[File:Cball-US.png]] US, [[File:Cball-France.png]] France and [[File:Zio.png]] Israel. [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya had to withdraw, when many rebel groups opposing [[File:FROLINAT.png]] [[Islamic Socialism|FROLINAT]] cooperated with [[File:Cball-Chad.png]] Chad.
==== [[File:Cball-Ethiopia.png]][[File:Cball-Eritrea.png]] Ethiopia and Eritrea ====
In the Ethiopian Civil War, which started as a result of the violent power struggle and [[File:Cball-Eritrea.png]] Eritrea's efforts to declare independence, Muammar Gaddafi initially supported the rebel groups in [[File:Cball-Eritrea.png]] Eritrea. [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya, which cooperated with the [[File:Natcon.png]] [[National Conservatism|ELF]] before the year of 1977, has supported the [[File:Leftnat.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|EPLF]] since then, with the influence of the [[File:Natcon.png]] [[National Conservatism|ELF]]'s move away from [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxism-Leninism]] and the emergence of new alternatives.
Muammar Gaddafi changed his attitude in later times and formed an alliance with the government led by [[Marxism–Leninism|Mengistu Haile Mariam]]. However, this alliance didn't last long and was dissolved in the year of 1991, when opposition groups entered Addis Ababa and won the war.
==== [[File:Cball-Palestine.png]] Palestine ====
Muammar Gaddafi appreciated the [[File:Cball-Palestine.png]] Palestinian resistance against [[File:Zio.png]] Israel, which he saw as [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism|socialist]] and [[File:Modnat.png]] [[Patriotism|patriotic]]. Both sides were influenced by anti-imperialism and allied with [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Soviet Union]] in the Cold War.
[[File:Cball-Palestine.png]] [[Arab Socialism|PLO]] received intense economic and military support from the [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya and the groups within it separately established connections with Muammar Gaddafi. They fought alongside [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya in many parts of [[File:Cball-AfricanUnion.png]] Africa and supported Muammar Gaddafi during the Libyan Civil War.
[[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya saw [[File:Arafat.png]] [[Arab Socialism|Fatah]] as one of the main actors of conflict between [[File:Cball-Palestine.png]] Palestine and [[File:Zio.png]] Israel.
[[File:Habash.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|PFLP]] has long been supported by [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya, in their actions in [[File:Cball-Palestine.png]] Palestine and [[File:Cball-Lebanon.png]] Lebanon. However, in later periods, the cooperation ended as a result of ideological differences between them. [[File:MLM.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism–Maoism|DFLP]] also had some contacts with [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya, although less than other groups.
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The external support needed by the [[File:Leftnat.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|PPSF]], which was established after the split of [[File:Habash.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|PFLP]] due to ideological differences, was provided by [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya. As a result, the group increasingly came under [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya's direction.
[[File:Absoc.png]] [[Arab Socialism|As-Sa'iqa]], the Palestinian branch of [[File:Neo-Baath.png]] [[Ba'athism|Syrian-led Ba'ath Party]] and dissidents within [[File:Arafat.png]] [[Arab Socialism|Fatah]], such as [[File:Arafat.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|Abu Nidal Organization]] cooperated with [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Libya. Muammar Gaddafi also provided military support to [[File:Conservative.png]] [[Conservatism|conservative]] and [[File:Nation.png]] [[Nationalism|nationalist]] groups like [[File:Hamas.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Hamas]] and [[File:Nation.png]] [[Nationalism|PFLP-GC]], which
▲In 2008, [[File:Gaddafi.png]] Muammar Gaddafi claimed the title of "King of Kings" after a gathering of more than 200 African [[File:Tribal.png]] tribal kings and chiefs endorsed his use of the title on 28 August that year, stating that "We have decided to recognise our [[File:Gaddafi.png]] brotherly leader as the '[[File:Unimon.png]] king of kings', [[File:Monarch.png]]sultans, [[File:Feud.png]] princes, [[File:Muslim_2.png]] sheikhs and [[File:Urb.png]] mayors of Africa". At the meeting, held in the city of [[File:Cball-Libya.png]] Benghazi, Gaddafi was given gifts including a throne, an 18th-century [[File:Muslim_2.png]] Qur'an, [[File:Trad.png]] traditional outfits and ostrich eggs. At the same meeting, Gaddafi urged his guests to put pressure on their own governments and speed the process of moving towards a [[File:Pan-Africanism.png]] unified African continent [[File:Blacknat.png]]. Gaddafi told those that attended the meeting that "We want an [[File:Mil.png]] African military [[File:Strato.png]] to defend [[File:Cball-AfricanUnion.png]] Africa, we want a single African currency, we want one [[File:Civnat.png]] African passport to travel within Africa". The meeting was later referred to as a "bizarre ceremony" in [[File:Mediastocracy_flair.png]] international media.
▲In 2011, anti-regime protesters, inspired by recent events in [[File:Cball-Egypt.png]] Egypt and [[File:Cball-Tunisia.png]] Tunisia, held rallies in Benghazi to protest the arrest of a human rights lawyer. The protesters called for Gaddafi to step down from his position, leading to clashes with the Libyan security forces and the protesters. To counter the protest, authorities set up a [[File:Gaddafi.png]] pro-regime protest and broadcast it on state TV.<ref name="RevoltBritt">[https://www.britannica.com/event/Libya-Revolt-of-2011 ''"Libya Revolt of 2011."''], Encyclopedia Britannica. 8 February 2022.</ref>
▲These actions caused tensions to rise between the two parties, ultimately leading to the protesters taking control of the city, which, in turn, lead to authorities using lethal force on the protesters and taking other [[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] measures, like blocking access to the internet and interrupting telephone service.<ref name="RevoltBritt" />
▲This rise in violence lead to condemnation from the [[File:Cball-UN.png]] international community, and lots of resignations from Libyan positions, like the Libyan ambassador to the [[File:Cball-UN.png]] UN Many Libyan embassies flew pre-Gaddafi flags in protest and many units of the [[File:StratoHelm.png]] military started to side with the protesters, causing Gaddafi's power to weaken significantly.<ref name="RevoltBritt" />
▲After a while, the protesters got weapons and teamed up with the anti-Gaddafi units of the [[File:StratoHelm.png]] military, forming a full-out armed rebellion, and therefore, starting a civil war. From here, it went downhill for Gaddafi. There were [[File:Cball-UN.png]] international calls for his resignation and the armed resistance, although weak, but with the help of foreign powers, like [[File:Necon.png]] NATO, managed to advance. Finally, on October 12 in 2011, Gaddafi was found and killed in his hometown of Sirte, marking the fall of his [[File:Gaddafi.png]] regime.<ref name="RevoltBritt" />
==Foundations and Beliefs==
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