I know it's awful to make a joke in this context, but the title reminds me of the oxford comma joke about how a panda "eats shoots and leaves"
(Eat (soil and leaves)) vs (Eat soil) and (leaves)?
Yes. With the Panda, it's "eats shoots and leaves" vs. "eats, shoots, and leaves"
I actually read it that way -- that is, I thought that it was just a poorly-written headline and that it was saying that there were refugees leaving the country due to the famine.
As a person who's first language isn't English I can totally see how you read it that way even if I personally didn't.
It's not Palestine. No one cares /s
To be honest it always bothers me that civil wars have been raging in one or the other African country throughout last century, genocide, ethno-state, famine etc have been raging almost all the time.
It's never been interesting enough for most media in east or in the west. Heck even some media in Africa doesn't care either. Some human rights groups care, but their funding is limited, and no one questions who is supplying weapons to African genocide propogators and I used to think it's all Russian or Russian copied Chinese weapons, but last year when I was looking at things in depth, they also have NATO weapons, but I couldn't find how they got it.
but last year when I was looking at things in depth, they also have NATO weapons, but I couldn’t find how they got it.
Way #1: Cold War-era supply to dictators who weren't aligned with the Soviets hasn't run out yet.
Way #2: Cold War-era surplus sold off en masse in the 90s.
Way #3: Western supplies for 'anti-terrorist' states and the proliferation that results from corruption within those countries.
Yep, it's nothing nefarious, exactly. You make and sell a rifle in 1972, it may well still be in operation in 2072, and obviously it will have changed hands a few times.
This is also why the US won't send or gift most people MANPADs anymore. They're still stinging (ba-dum-tss) from all the ones the Taliban fired right back at them.
In a way, the old colonial racism didn't die, but just transformed. It's less about skin colour or even culture, but there's still a belief that certain other places are different and bad things "naturally" happen there. And not here, which is why 9/11 and Ukraine got such a response.
Fuck the RSF and the army and anyone else taking food from innocent people or preventing aid from getting to them. If you want to kill someone buy a fucking gun
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