Meanwhile, in Syria, the Civil War continues. Ten years and over one half million dead, and the world yawns.
11 in Libya.
Excellent point. I've mentioned to several folks that Wikipedia is listing 30-40 wars currently ongoing in various places. To those who were claiming the US has a "moral obligation" to intervene in 'unjust' wars, I inquired if there might be people or wars higher on the list than Ukraine, that needed the attention of the US military acting as 'Globo Robo Cop'. Most of them got pissed, and one also started splitting hairs about European invasions vs. 'jungle wars' vs. 'civil wars' - but after all of their talk about America needing to intervene in Ukraine 'to save human lives', it just looked hypocritical, the way they ignored all of the other wars on the planet...
Because they don’t have nukes…. Yet
That’s lot more of a proxy war than a civil war.
1/3 territory Turkish control, 1/3 USA/kurd, 1/3 Syrian (assad)
The world isn’t yawning, the world is doing it!
There is a big difference between a civil war and an invasion from a foreign power.
Syria is a pure civil war.
Yemen was a civil war which became civil warS with multiple sides, then invading forces (Saudi and UAE) on behalf of the civil war participants.
Ukraine - if Putin had just invaded the Donbas, would have been similar to Yemen’s case and we wouldn’t have cared.
But putin tried to swallow the country whole. And failed.