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.
Americans did talk up about ISIS being a new level of threat, like an ultra-terrorist group. But the migrants were discussed as a "European migrant crisis". I seem to remember right wing pundits saying ISIS would sneak into France or wherever to destroy Christiandom. Because 1 poison m&m would spoil a whole bowl of them. (The most American analogy I can imagine).