We got involved in Iraq to secure the oil economy. Burkina Faso has nothing we want. Similarly we watched while Rwanda, another place unimportant to billionaires, tore itself apart.
Yes it’s always about the money, the biggest and in this case lacking motivator. There’s no major economic impact from the conflicts in Africa, at least not directly noticeable. But there‘s more to it. Not much for goverments and billionaires, but why do we don’t care as much? The media usually doesn’t cover what governments feel is most important, they just want clicks and ad revenue. Dying black people in Africa just isn’t a profitable topic because people, the readers, don’t care as much about black people dying in Africa.
If Ukrainians were black… is nonsense, cause neither white Russia or white europe would have tolerated a black nation in that area.
But what if those African children in schools getting kidnapped and their limbs chopped off were white. It would definitely be more covered by the media and more read by readers. We’d probably send in enough troops to really deal with the situation. Uyghurs are basically half-white, apparently that is not enough to make the world give enough shits. Gotta be fully white.
Obviously it’s more than skin color. Americans shoot and kill 5-6x more American kids per year than Russians kills Ukrainian kids. Why do other nations not protest much, boycott till they introduce common sense gun laws and disarm the clearly dangerous public. Why just messages of sympathy and prayers. Cause that’s just America being America, different culture. Apparantly white kids dying isn’t that much of a bigger issue than black kids dying when there’s too much money involved.
The reason those places have nothing you want still has a lot to do with the color of their skin. If they were white calvinis enclaves… If Iraq was white, democratic instead of a tirany…
How about Afghanistan? If they were white they’d be a EU candidate or special state of the US. I blame countries like my own for giving colonization and anything close to it such a bad name…which again comes down a lot to skin color.