Ukraine is facing a future with upward of 20,000 amputees, many of them soldiers who are also suffering psychological trauma from their time at the front.
I have not been able to shake thoughts of the Iraq war in regards to mainstream western treatment of the war and just how much it seems to have forgotten that war is hell.
Those people were mostly brown and Muslim, these people are mostly white and Christian.
In Iraq the west were the aggressors, in Ukraine the “enemy” of the west is (except Putin isn’t really an enemy to those on the right who he helped get more power).
An expectation of anything but polar opposite reporting on these two wars can only come from not paying attention (or being extremely naive)
In Iraq one side of the soldiers dying were Americans or westerners with families at home. In Ukraine none of the soldiers are western. Not sure it’s entirely that oppositional, at least as far as media coverage is concerned, especially if a side is “taken”.
Those people were mostly brown and Muslim, these people are mostly white and Christian.
In Iraq the west were the aggressors, in Ukraine the “enemy” of the west is (except Putin isn’t really an enemy to those on the right who he helped get more power).
An expectation of anything but polar opposite reporting on these two wars can only come from not paying attention (or being extremely naive)
In Iraq one side of the soldiers dying were Americans or westerners with families at home. In Ukraine none of the soldiers are western. Not sure it’s entirely that oppositional, at least as far as media coverage is concerned, especially if a side is “taken”.
Ah, well, I guess naive it is then…