did he really think they would just watch him undermine their currency with all those advanced weaponry??Well the thing is, either way, his moves would have benefitted us and undermined them. That's why he got taken out.
I don't buy that Gaddafi loved africans at all, but he was on the right track with his gold-backed currency plan. The dollar is not backed by anything stable. The only reason the standard unit of currency in the international markets is the dollar is that of the petrodollars, and every 1 in 3 business exchange is done by an american. And it's just convenient since America is the biggest superpower, and no other currency is a candidate, so people don't feel the need to change it. The euro is too unstable.
So if a foreign currency backed by real stable gold, then nations would drop the dollar in a second. And the usd would depreciate immediately. This is a significant threat to all the western countries because it would make them much less relevant, and african nations would have evolved very fast.