Neun Millionen Menschen sind geflohen. Bis zu 150.000 sind tot. Niemand spricht darüber.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/sudan-war-famine-donations-ukraine-gaza.html

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  2. Harder to blame on Jews so people are less interested.

  3. I do not think Sudan’s position would be any different if the conflicts on Gaza and Ukraine weren’t diverting attention. The European powers would be reluctant to get involved due to their previous colonial presence. China and Russia have influence over a number of African states and might position any European presence as modern imperialism.  

     I don’t see the US getting involved either, it seems like they’d probably want the African Union states to handle Africa’s own issues. 

  4. Don’t worry Sudan, surely Al Jazeera whose headquarters isn’t that far from you will cover your story and make sure the entire world hears about it.

    SURELY.

    ANY MINUTE NOW.

  5. Yeah no westerners involved to blame so the global doesn’t give a fuck.

    The most amazing thing about the Sudan war is the total lack of involvement from Africa, by now the AU should have a plan in place and be presenting it the world so they can help back and fund it.

  6. “Yes. I think that quote that you shared perfectly encapsulates how the majority of the people feel. There’s a feeling that prejudices might lead people to care less about what’s happening in Sudan. That this is just Africans killing Africans. Sudanese people do feel forgotten, because most people haven’t seen international aid. They don’t blame aid workers; they just know the funding isn’t there. They feel abandoned.”

    ☹️

  8. Good demonstration of what Russia will bring to Africa.

  9. Can we Blame Jews? hmmm …. no……

    Are there White people dying? hmmm…. no….

    Can we at least BLAME white men generally?

    Oh. Then no-one cares. No self righteous campus protests, no U.N. Declarations, no marches. No-one Cares.

    Same with millions of Uyghurs in China, Armenians in Turkey, Heck all of Syria… Can’t self righteously blame jews, find, pictures of pretty white girls dying, or blame white men? No-one cares. Move along…

  10. I can’t decide how to feel about this. On a person-to-person level, if someone tells me they’re hungry, of course I give what I can. But on a macro level, I’d probably sound like CJ saying “shit, here we go again.”

    Sending food aid will keep people alive a bit longer, but who can address the underlying structural/political/environmental problems contributing to the regular famines in that part of the world?

  11. This is the real genocide. But I haven’t seen or heard one protestor talk about it. Zero encampments

  12. People died hiding hostages and supporting Hamas : all eyes on Rafah
    Millions displaced, hundreds of thousands dead in Suda : who?

  13. Cause the news stations know this won’t generate the same amount of traffic so they don’t care.

    It’s fucked up

  14. Perhaps we could have some student protests over it ?

  15. The solution is simple, stop working for the army. Generals with no men cannot fight.

  16. My heart goes out those who are suffering.
    US won’t pay attention to Sudan, Sudan does not know how to play victim like Israel or have the clout on the US government like Israel.

  17. The west namely France and US are getting TF out of Africa. They are welcome to pester their new overlords Russia and China for help

  18. It is extremely concerning to see how we Americans reacts to these genocides. It really rips my mind apart. I literally do not have the brain capacity to be able to emotionally invest in all of these tragedies, as fucked as that sounds. I’ve been telling myself “you cannot fix the world, you probably cannot even fix your state, but you *can* attempt to fix things at a local level”.

    I am making plans to flee the southern US come November, while also worrying about Russia, while also making plans to raise money for Gaza with my pottery, and that’s about as far as my brain can handle.

    I am gay, but I am a white male. I try to use that privilege to stand up for those that cannot stand for themselves. I’m terrified. But if I’m scared, how scared are Sudanese children? How scared are Palestinians? How scared are the LGBTQ+ youth around the world? It just overloads me, quite literally. It’s an extremely privileged point of view but I don’t know how else to approach life.

  20. No one gives a shit because it isn’t a religious race war.

    Canadian protestors don’t give a shit because they are idiots who don’t actually read the news or care about any other global conflict or issue in history.

  21. Sudan has been effed up for decades. Civil war that eventually gave us South Sudan, while at the same time they were killing people in Darfur. Now another civil war in north or original Sudan, plus they are killing people from Darfur again. It slows down, but it never seems to stop.

  22. It’s a civil war with no foreign backers in a strategically unimportant part of the world. Yeah, no shit there’s nothing about it on the media.

  23. Surely it’s obvious why western (or indeed eastern) governments and citizens aren’t getting involved in a complex civil war in a far away country with few resources, little trade and that doesn’t occupy a strategic position?

    You don’t really think foreign policy is based on morality and human rights do you? It is all naked self interest. Even if there isn’t an obvious selfish angle it will still be there.

    – Europe and the US’s interest in Ukraine is obvious: if it falls Poland or the Baltics may be next. You don’t need to be a genius to see that they consider this a Very Bad Thing.

    – The US’s trenchant support for Israel is less obvious but it comes down to domestic politics. Essentially evangelicals in the US take various bible passages literally, including one about Jesus’s second coming only being possible while Abraham’s people live in Israel. And evangelicals are a huge voting bloc in parts of the US, so both parties take them seriously and have done for a long time. Freaking bizarre from the POV of the rest of the world, but when you’re the global hegemon your delusions become other people’s reality.

    When it comes to the focus of public interest there are equally obvious reasons why Sudan isn’t getting any. They don’t have a large diaspora in the west, they are culturally very different, they’re not in anyone’s sphere of influence and even colonial links are very weak. They have also been at constant war for seemingly decades in a very war prone area of the world. If the moralists in the west cared once they’re bored of it now. The Palestinians have been the focus of the western left’s attention for decades now, for various reasons, it’s hardly surprising that they’re getting a lot of coverage when something very bad happens to them.

    Much of the left’s (for it is mainly them complaining) attitude is as hypocritical as those they are criticising. You want the West to be the world’s policeman and intervene in any situation where something you don’t like is happening but at the same time the US should give up its imperialism and stop interfering with other countries. Which is it? Can’t you see that both of these things are the West imposing their values on others and the difference is entirely subjective?

    Bad stuff is happening all over the world at all times. There are currently major wars in Somalia, Ethiopia, Yemen, much of the Sahel, Syria, Congo, Myanmar and a host of other smaller one Asking why any one of these at any one time isn’t the focus of the west’s attention belies a lack of understanding of both human nature and geopolitics. It also looks suspiciously like the asker suffers from the Noble Savage fallacy, believing implicitly that benighted foreigners can’t sort out their own problems (probably caused by the west) and need enlightened westerners to bail them out.

  24. Of course they aren’t. They can’t use it as an excuse to be anti-semitic or bash America.

  25. Ukraine is a sovereign nation being attacked by an imperialist neighbor. Some ridiculous amount of the world’s food imports hang in the balance, and there is the threat of global nuclear disaster in the background. It’s also very clear who, and more importantly how, to support. 

  26. Get involved … COLONIALISM WEST BAD. Don’t get involved… WHY ISN’T THE WEST DOING ANYTHING

  28. The conflict of Sudan is way more internal and totally different. Don’t forget this is going on for decades now.

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