Meanwhile all those dead Yemenis don't even warrant a mention, especially since it might have people asking why we were over there helping kill them in the first place

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I saw a single decent report on Yemen and it was on pbs in like 2014 or 2015 maybe. It showed how the Saudis are bombing the shit out of them with ordinance made in the USA and all the starving children dying because of the blockade on any asstancd getting to them.

I haven't seen any comparable coverage since.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

The war in Yemen had very little coverage in the West. People are talking about all the drones being used in Ukraine, but they'd been using drones with similar devastating effecet in Yemen - the main difference being they tended to target people rather than tanks.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

See, Yemen is a bad place where bad things are allowed to happen. By Western logic stuff only becomes real if it enters our imaginary bubble of perpetual safety. That's also why 9/11 and the Ukraine invasion got such a big reaction.

To be clear, the bubble is not real, it can all happen here.