Gaddafi was one of the weirdest leaders in modern history
No amount of opium in the world could induce enough constipation to create a bigger piece of shit than this.
wasn't gadaffi the one who tried creating a bikini bodyguard group only for them to be worthless at guarding him
Yep, he just conscripted tall beautiful women from around Libya to be his Amazon guard. Like, if you get a Tomyris out of this that’s an accident.
If you want an Amazon guard you need to recruit the angriest ladies of their own volition. And yeah they’re not necessarily going to be tall and conventionally attractive, but the real intimidation is a pissed off 5’0” mom judo throwing someone for ignoring her telling them to stop.
He also conducted nightly inspections of their genitals to confirm that they are still virgins. This would be done by checking if the Hymen was still in tact, which of course doesn't mean anything. That can tear during ordinary physical activity, just at random for no reason, or as multiple health books felt weirdly obligated to specifically call out, during horseback riding.
I can only imagine the poor women who caught the shit end of that in the Amazon Guard mounted detachment.
Sun Tzu managed to get a group of palace concubines to drill like soldiers, I think Gadaffi just didn't want to put the work into training his Amazon guard
True, I also think that Sun Tzu had other advantages here like pre selecting for a ruthless group. Random conscription of tall and beautiful women gets a very unmotivated military group
Adam Curtis' Hypernormalisation has a great section on the weirdness of Gaddafi, if anyone wants a 3 hour, cerebral fever dream of a documentary to accompany their meme before bed.
if anyone wants a 3 hour, cerebral fever dream of a documentary to accompany their meme before bed.
Fucking read my mind.
I think Turkmenbashi could give him a run for his money. He renamed the months, including after his mother and his horse, had a huge gold statue of himself built on a rotating pedestal configured to always face the sun, and made most of the national school programme rote memorisation of his book of brainfarts.