If Gaddafi wasn’t overthrown in 2011.

he might throw more oil money at the population and he will be increasing security measures and repression . He will support Assad in Syria and the Iraq government .
 
Well, he'd have massacred a LOT of people. I mean probably in the hundreds of thousands. So Libya would be a horrible police state in ruins and an international pariah.
Unless he magical becomes the new pol pot that is not happening. at max the death toll would be a low thousands .
 
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Unless he magical becomes the new pol pot that is not happening. at max the death toll would be a low thousands .

And don't forget the thousands of "refugees/Asylum seeker" that don't drown trying to cross the Med. Without a failed state this would be a much smaller problem.
 

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Drowning into the Mediterranean or enduring Ghaddafi is not unlike picking the least illness between plague and smallpox.
 
Drowning into the Mediterranean or enduring Ghaddafi is not unlike picking the least illness between plague and smallpox.

Most come from other parts of Africa to seek a better (economic) future in Europe. The criminal gangs make more money of them, than smuggeling drugs.
 
Unless he magical becomes the new pol pot that is not happening. at max the death toll would be a low thousands .
Ghaddaffi would definitely be capable of carrying out increased repression in defence of his regime. The only reason that I think it wouldn't get to this point is that I'm not sure the rebels would last long enough for events to get so drastic. Still if we assume Ghaddafi wins, I'd imagine he would double down on repression to stamp out any threats, while you would probably see a terror campaign or low level insurgency emerge. Whether or not it would last would depend on whether Ghaddafi would be willing to redress some of the grievances that caused the war or not.

No collapse of the regime also has huge ramifications for the rest of Africa, as all the weapons available after his collapse influenced the conflicts in Mali and Nigeria.
 
Ghaddaffi would definitely be capable of carrying out increased repression in defence of his regime.
yes he would be but at max your looking at another hama , your not getting death tolls in hundreds of thousands like wiking said unless he carpet gases the city of Benghazi
 
While Gaddafi wasn’t about to sentence to rebels to community service or anything the idea that he was going to kill hundreds of thousands is a gross exaggeration.
 
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