I'm so flabbergasted people can't see past their nose regarding current events, it all reminds me very much of OIF/OEF propaganda levels. Be vigilant for real psyops (as opposed to the soft army stuff that hit frontpage recently)
Really makes you think...
Ukraine is a (mostly christian) democratic country who's main exports are not drugs or oil. The leadership doesnt declare holy war on other countries.
Also there's the focus on the history of the USSR and Ukraine in europe, alongside their efforts to join western alliances. Afganistan or Saudi Arabia or Iraq never tried to join the EU or NATO.
Cultures that are alike tend to by sympathetic to each other. That's it.
In regard to US vs Latin America - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America%E2%80%93United_S...
Commercial interest and local defense. When Putin fueled separatist armies prior to the invasion, this was equivalent to the banana wars in Latin America, fueled by the US. The world stage generally ignores these kinds of regional 3rd party conflicts.
We shouldn't downplay the war in Ukraine just because US does what US does. Also what's happening there is not important just because "Ukraine is a (mostly christian) democratic country who's main exports are not drugs or oil." but because Ukrainians are fellow humans, like the rest of us, and are victim of an unfair confrontation against a bully few times bigger than them.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
Edit: grammar
There was no internet during these periods and the media was either complicit in omission or narrative (they were BAD democracies corrupted by the drug cartels!) so the outrage was limited. Again, this isn't some mystery to ponder. Tribalism is alive and well and the narratives do their job.
> Also what's happening there is not important just because "Ukraine is a (mostly christian) democratic country who's main exports are not drugs or oil."
I didn't say anything about importance. Please don't misquote me to push your agenda.
>Cultures that are alike tend to by sympathetic to each other. That's it.
So Saudi Arabia is like the US and that's why it is supported by them?
It is abhorrent what Russia is doing in Ukraine. Thankfully the international community is reacting appropriately. It is also equally abhorrent what is going on in Yemen (which the US has a part in). Unfortunately, the international community is not reacting appropriately here. It was also abhorrent when the US invaded Iraq (on false pretenses).
Afghanistan supplies drugs(opium poppy) to pharmaceutical companies for turning into American painkillers. I don't know why it should matter if a countries main export is oil anyways?
Also who exactly declared a holy war on other countries? That seems like a vaguely anti Islamic charge that doesn't really apply to most countries in the middle east. Perhaps Iran(long after western intervention I should add) and one or two others.
>Ukraine is a (mostly christian)
I think you said the quiet part out loud.
Makes me think EU and allies want to stop this war as early as possible, for some reason, and all these reactions is how they think that will happen.
Such an attack isn't something comparable to any war from WW2. If the world can't punish attackers painfully enough, we will see more similar events...
Which countries are the UK in bombing civilians right now?
And realistically, there is nothing UK can do that would prevent KSA killing people in Yemen, even if UK did want do.