Again you've added a good point. Although i have empathy for op, since me too i lurk most of the time, never posted, and yet i see the thing being centered around either the us or europe.

Thanks for clarifying that you're not racist, but its curious that you describe the islamic world as savage, again centering yourself in the west as the enlightened and modern person. And who decided we are at the center of the world? Colonialist slave owners?

I didn't mean to come across as someone who would turn a blind eye on any atrocities. Its just that the instability, and therefore violence that ravages the Middle East (maybe that's what you mena by savage?), more often than not comes from coups or the imf restructuring those economies on behalf of the US and the EU. I have no explanation for the Saudis, not sure how they've got to that point. I don't turn a blind eye on this violence, I just try my best to not put such a big group of people in the "bad" box. (at least thats how i make sense of this)

Also i'm 100% sure, at least most of the poor nations have the capacity to develop, and we can see that recently with at least some diplomatic ties being reinstated or made stronger (Iran - Saudi Arabia - Syria - ...), and trade routes that escape the sanctions, which affect a really long list of poor countries. For a problem that is out of our control, its weird to expect that everything gets solved in 2 seconds, with rationality and friendship. Does this make sense or should i back this with some sources?

thanks for the news

The only ones who have, so far, actually used nuclear weapons were the British with the depleted uranium bullets. Although to my surprise, these are not considered nuclear weapons by the BBC, even though the Ukrainian soil will probably stay poisoned for quite some time. I hope nobody used to live in the area, because someone would probably try to get back to their old house

Or did i miss the news and the Russians used nuclear weapons?

Kuwait just tryna save the day. Meanwhile, Iraq is a lot more enthusiast (if a country can't behave decently, its ambassador might as well move out).

Most people just ignore it

In a way yeah sure, but the unconscius doesn't forget 24/7 ads. We can't possibly escape them since they're literally everywhere. Whatever you buy, is done under the influence of at least some kind of advertisement (buy cheap/ fancy/ green/ fuckall)

We could focus on the problems of our own country, and maybe try and solve them in some capacity. But why do that when we can look far away, at problems that don't affect us in the slightest? Usually it boils down to "I'm not doing good, but they are doing much worse". It's a soothing balm, that takes away the need to go irl and do something.

TLDR: we're lazy.

Rather than blaming the individuals for the doom of the entire country, i'd point the finger at the institutions that let this happen.

Several european govs never truly dealt with their dictatorships from ww2, be the nazis, the fascists, or whatever the spanish and portuguese were doing. Throw in all the collaborators as well. These ideologies never really went away. If you'd like to dive more into the topic, Bes D. Marx and Yugopnik have some excellent material on yt, with additional sources in the video descriptions

even a slave owner had that much common sense. I mean, there are better people to quote from but i think we got the point

oh god did u get the "actual starvation" thing from yeon mi park? Here u got different text, same energy

a very powerful man takes advantage of his position against some of the most powerless individuals available? no way! Nonetheless, whenever i bring this up irl the general reaction is dismissal, which is kinda confusing.