Admittedly, I don't know a whole lot about it, and only really learned what I know now, much after the fact, from a bitcoin-literature context (the whole breaking away from dollar stuff). I spent many a year far less interested in politics and news than I am now
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I'm going the other way - used to be addicted to the news, bitcoin was part of a change where I'm paying less attention to the world.
Destroying Libya was a really bad move. It only makes sense if the people who orchestrated it are truly out to harm humanity. Not that it was a utopia or anything, but this is objectively worse, and the motivations are as antihuman as I can imagine.
I think I've got a decent balance these days. Far from a news junky, but at least a bit more clued in than the occasional headline and water cooler mentions of yore. I do try to pay closer attention to the big stuff, like Venezuela, these days.