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Going through weak spots in the periphery pretty much dictate sea travel. No roads, no roadblocks. People cross into the US via the Sonora desert, rather than by just walking from Juarez to El Paso.

The old 'White Man's Burden' keeps coming back, in stranger, more modern forms. Used to be, Those People were incapable of governing themselves -- now they're incapable of mounting their own revolutions. Either way, they're clearly not up to the task.

No! No! Those people don't have any agency. They cannot do -- they only be done to. Anything that happens over there has to be the result of outside forces, like the US, CIA, NATO, the EU, the ECB, Israel, big oil... The shadowier the better.

The US didn't, not in North Africa. It backed Mubarak to the hilt, and went to great pains to get Gadaffi onside after actual armed clashes throughout the 80's.

There were thousands dying annually trying to cross the Med, and thousands penned up on Pantelleria and Lampedusa, long before Gaddafi fell.