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At the behest of the UN security council, and the Libyan government afterwards asked NATO to extend their mission which they refused.


Sure but that still means NATO is not exclusively a defensive alliance. Libya was not attacking any NATO member and got attacked by NATO. It seems silly to pretend it's a defensive alliance just because you can justify all of the times it was the aggressor?





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