Excellent point. I've mentioned to several folks that Wikipedia is listing 30-40 wars currently ongoing in various places. To those who were claiming the US has a "moral obligation" to intervene in 'unjust' wars, I inquired if there might be people or wars higher on the list than Ukraine, that needed the attention of the US military acting as 'Globo Robo Cop'. Most of them got pissed, and one also started splitting hairs about European invasions vs. 'jungle wars' vs. 'civil wars' - but after all of their talk about America needing to intervene in Ukraine 'to save human lives', it just looked hypocritical, the way they ignored all of the other wars on the planet...
The civil war in the Congo was the bloodiest conflict since WWII. Most people never knew it was happening, much less cared.
Of course it’s hypocritical. But we’re not supposed to look for the truth. We are supposed to blindly accept every pronouncement from the Ukraine Ministry of Truth or Ginger Goebbels.
There are always 30 wars going on and it may shock you to learn people have a right to decide what they care about most.
Let me know how many of those wars
1 Are in Europe
2 Involve the largest European country against the 2nd largest
3. Involve our nuclear adversary as the aggressor
4 involve countries that have a huge impact on world food and oil supplies
5 will give Russia Black Sea access
6 would give Russia access to Poland
7 That will likely lead to China attacking Taiwan
The list could be longer but please take a look at those 30 wars and let me know if any of them match the reasons I’m concerned about Ukraine - plus humanitarian reasons.
I can’t help it that you are unaware of the strategic importance of this particular war.
The TV didn’t tell them to care about those wars . . .
Rwanda. Tiny hands floating in a red river. Cover of Time.
We did nothing.