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The Deadliest Conflict is not what you think

If you want to know about the world there are three or four importance sources of information, and yet they show the world in a completely different light.  TV5, CNN and Al Jazera.   They all have their bias so you still have to think, TV5 is great about everything that is not Africa, Al Jazera is great about all things that are not the middle east, and CNN is not great it a source of sensational news that repeat the same thing over and over, but they do have a global reach (I may explain at the end).

By far the worst most dangerous, with the most death and the greatest attacks on civilians is Sudan, that terrible country which seems to go from one great tragedy to another, remember Darfur...

The cruelty, the number of deaths is scale worse than Ukraine and twice that of Gaza (lets not forget that its a tiny territory).   Yet there are demonstration about Gaza and money about the war in Ukraine, and virtually not a single news article about Sudan, with the exception of Al Jazera!  Why?

First, we don't understand or dislike some of the participants; As they say the Jews are not wrong.   America went to war with Iraq after 9/11 because of the attack -- yet there were no links between the 9/11 attack and Iraq, no one protested for the Iraqi!   Russia invaded and took over the land of eight countries between 1999 and 2020 and no one said or did anything.  Why Ukraine? Why Gaza?   

Normally no one would have cared about Ukraine, during the first 30 days of the war, they fought alone.  The Ukrainians proved plucky and the Russian so very incompetent as to almost be comic relief.  Running out of gas after three days and food is special!   Also the Russians are our natural enemies

Sudan is nothing to us, 99% of the population would be hard pressed to show it on a map of Africa.  I understand that a fair percentage of the population would have a problem with locating Africa...still.   As I mentioned Sudan goes from one tragedy to another.  

Finally, Sudan is economically irrelevant, full of losers!   People do remember the tragedy of Darfur, but just the famine and the decades old conflict.  As for the Palestinian and their supporters, well the Jews have screwed the pooch in so many ways.   I find it incredible that the Israeli's strongest supports of destroying Gaza are often orthodox jews -- who do not serve in the military.  There are some incredible own goals in the world, like Gays and Lesbian for Trump or for Palestine.  In both cases, they would be jailed by the people they support.  BTW what does people's sexual preference have to do with foreign policy?

Anyway, CNN used to be (30 years ago) not only the gold standard in international reporting but also the only game in town.   For the past 30 years they have treaded on their reputation that has long ceased to be true, but it is now the only US media that gives even the smallest interest in international affaires.  

The truth is, there is no truth, Sudan is by far the worse conflict in the world right now, and it is almost never mentioned.  That's interesting


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