Ignoring? The US attempts to provide aid seem pretty futile, but I don't see the US as ignoring the situation.

Hmm, what a comparison, in one case a tyrant, pursued by the doctrine of "Russian world" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world) kills hundreds of thousands of people for the sake of annexing territory. And in the other situation the US president not solving the problem of starving people on the opposite side of the globe in a country that does not even belong to NATO.