"Libya's Strongman: The 42-Year Legendary Path of No Return for a Middle Eastern Tough Guy"

Muammar Gaddafi, a strongman who has faded from the historical stage, is a figure more powerful and even more controversial than Saddam Hussein. He lifted the Libyan people out of poverty and made Libya the richest country in Africa; but he also turned his guns on his own people, violently suppressing dissenters. He was a "tough guy of the Middle East," an anti-American hero who opposed hegemony, colonialism, and imperialism, and embraced the perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing. Later, however, he took the initiative to move closer to the West.

He knew best how to consolidate his rule and how to maneuver with Western countries like the US, UK, and France. He could be considered the most resolute, the most skilled, and at the same time, the most疯狂.

He was a lonely old man, though pitiable, but after 42 years of monopolizing power, and with the political system in Libya lagging far behind the progress of the economic situation, he had already lost touch with the people. His downfall was inevitable, and his own personality would not allow him to turn back.