It's very kafka or PK dick or some other surreal author thing. I know there's a genocidal war in Yemen where the Saudis and the US are indiscriminately murdering as many Yemeni people as possible using famine and disease and the destruction of all civilian infrastructure.

Meanwhile, in Ukraine, people are finding dead civilians in towns and labelling it genocide.

But the numbers of dead civilians, relative to other modern wars, is very small. Like "The US kills this many people at a single wedding then writes them off as collateral damage" small.

And there's no recognition, reflection, or awareness of this. It's like the War on Terror never happened. It's like Yemen doesn't exist. It's like staring through the internet in to a parallel reality. it's so, so fucking bizarre. And I honestly don't know what to make of it. Pure ignorance? Maybe, people are very uninformed. Racism? Probably, Ukrainians have been promoted to "White People" while Yemenis are firmly brown. Completely guileless hypocrisy? It's okay when our side does it? We're the good guys so our murders are justified while the evil orkish enemy are bad guys and their murders are unjustified?

Fucking bizarre. Just fucking bizarre. And absolutely no mention of similar killings by Ukrainian forces in Donbas.

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    i mean, these are the same media outlets that all ran "check out these fuckin' nazis in Ukraine" articles a few years ago, but now swear blind that it's Russian propaganda

    • MalarchoBidenism [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's been surreal watching the media narrative go from "Yes, there are nazis in Ukraine but that doesn't justify Russia's invasion" to "What nazis? You mean Azov? They're not nazis anymore, only some of them are, maybe. The real nazis are the Russians. Ukraine is akhshually the least nazi country in Europe you fool, you absolute moron"