In March 2011, "NATO militarily intervenes in Libya — ostensibly to protect civilians, although of course that was the pretense," he recalled. "The Libyan intervention was actually never about saving human lives or humanitarian reasons, it was about overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi from the very beginning. That's what they did, and we're living with the consequences of that, but media outlets refused to even mention what happened six years ago."