There was the threat of military action and regime change if they didn’t. See Libya and Iraq after they decided to sell oil in Euros.

You mean Libya that was bombarded by France and other European militaries with relatively small US involvement? The same Libya that bombed planes[0][1], killed people in front of embassies[2], helped prop up monsters like Idi-Amin[2], waged war against Chad[4] and Egypt[5] and suggested breaking up Switzerland because dictators son brutalized his servants[6]?

The country which was in midst of protests which their government, dictatorial btw, decided to violently suppress?[7]

Yeah, nice guy all around that Gaddaffi. Oils the only reason anybody would want him gone.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTA_Flight_772

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda%E2%80%93Tanzania_War

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadian%E2%80%93Libyan_conflic...

[5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%E2%80%93Libyan_War

[6]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya%E2%80%93Switzerland_rela...

[7]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Libyan_Civil_War

[8]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombin...

Oh yes, perfect excuse to kick a country and its people back into the stone age.

Defensive military alliance - NATO - go!

Gee, I wonder how many similar incidents we can count among NATO states going back from 1988