realist2023

>> Because war with China will definitely devolve into a global conflict.

We're risking global conflict with Russia now to save Ukraine. People are willing to engage in global conflicts as long as the victims look like us.

But when they dont look at us, we dont care. People will say it outright

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/17/chamath-palihapitiya-says-no...

CNBC: Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says ‘nobody cares’ about Uyghur genocide in China PUBLISHED MON, JAN 17 20226:00 PM ESTUPDATED WED, JAN 19 202210:02 AM EST thumbnail Amanda Macias

>> It's insane how this situation was allowed to exist for so long. Do other world powers not have the power to stop the genocide and concentration camps or do they just not care?

In the US we say "Never Again" w/r/t genocide and concentration camps, but ultimately we turn a blind eye to (or worse, fund/arm perpetrators.) A great example would be turning a blind eye to the Bosnian genocide and arming Saudi Arabia with US weapons as they wipe out large parts of Yemen.

The reality is that we only intervene in narrow circumstances:

1. When there is money. The example would be Kuwait in 1991, when we went "to save the people" but in reality we went to try an capture Iraqi oil

2. When the people look like us. Both left and right leaning publications couldnt care less about reporting on genocide unless the victims look like us. Ukraine is an example, they look like us, and thus they have massive help.