Why does no one in the West care?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czewgl1171lo

150,000 deaths

Women and girls mass raped

Many crimes against humanity. Mass genocide.

It's because the perpetrators aren't Jewish.

We have very little diplomatic leverage in the situation. There is no clear “ask” to target the UK government with.

I think people do care but there is very little content coming from Sudan because of the poor communications infrastructure. So this means it gets much less media coverage.

From this thread it seems that people dismiss conflicts in Africa as “tribal” or “their own problem”. This isn’t really true as there are many foreign influences in this war but obviously that is what people think.

Fascinated that people see the UK’s role in Africa as being “the world’s police” . That’s not what happened.

I believe ‘the West’ does care, but it has very few/no solutions. It’s not like Russia, as sanctions/striking trade details/quarantining funds outside the country will do nothing as there is so little of that to work with. Apart from the West literally storming these countries and taking them over, which would cause an even bigger outcry, what is the solution? Aid is provided, but mainly that is often mismanaged by corruption in these countries, so what do you believe is the answer here?

Yes - that is the question. Any ideas from those who think TheWest should get involved?

Tbh it seems to be the UN quote all the time. These countries even though is sad need to sort themselves out.

Don't be ridiculous. Many people are far less critical of Israel specifically because it is a Jewish country and they don't want to be seen as Anti Semitic.

I don’t think historically the Uk had that role in Africa. I think the U.S. had a good go at being the world policeman backed up by the west post WW2 I think manipulating / interfering in another country comes back to bite you. Get rid of a despot and it creates a vacuum generally filled by someone equally bad (although perhaps for different reasons?)

I mean if you go far back enough we did, 'Pax Britannia' and all that.

This with bells on

Ukraine and Gaza are wars of aggression. One country has invaded another or two countries have declared war. Yemen and Sudan are civil wars with different local factions fighting each other. The first type of war can sometimes be solved with a peace treaty and international sanctions, and sometimes needs other countries to to intervene to make it clear that further expansion will not be tolerated, eg Russia. But a civil war is almost impossible to fix. As others have said, what do you want to do when both sides are committing atrocities? If we did intervene what would we then do?

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What a guilt trippy headliner “ why does nobody in the west care”. Give over.

It doesn’t involve Jews so it doesn’t interest people and I’m afraid that’s the truth

I am referring to the whole continent, there are conflicts all over. Don't be so patronising.

Some sense at last.

I care but I fear I’m in the minority. Sudan isn’t as trendy as Palestine. A lot of people can’t see past their own nose.

The West has made it very clear that it will only get involved in conflicts where there is a benefit to themselves. Even if that means supporting aggressors.

This conflict is a tragedy. It's unbelievably upsetting to read about. Most discourse I see around it involves using it as a political football, rather than being discussed in its own right. Including on this thread sadly. Or in charity appeals as a PP said.

I think you’re imagining that.

As an Irish person whose country was on the receiving end of Britain “barging in and helping everyone “. A huge amount of issues are hangovers from Britain’s vile and rampant colonisation -see Rwanda to name just one. “Barging in and helping everyone” is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve read about the British forces on here . Please read up on your history and the impact it has had globally .

While I agree with the sentiment, it has to be said that Rwanda is Belgium's mess, not the UK's.

They're too comfortable

Also, what Reese said

These problems need to be sorted by African countries - not the white saviors

I thought we more colonised and stole stuff as opposed to trying to tell them how to run their own affairs.

I care but I’m not sure what people think the west should do for this conflict?

I thought colonsisation meant mposing political control and interfering with how things were done.