Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "NBC News"
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I don't think it's surprising that people identify more with people whose lives and culture are close to their own. So in Europe (and to a lesser extent North America and Australia), ordinary people reepond to a European war by thinking "that could be me and my country", far more than they do to a war in Asia or Africa. That's just human nature. Likewise I know that ordinary people in The Levant (especially Jordan and Lebanon) have opened their houses to refugees from Syria because they see them as their own people. However in European countries politicians have to respond to the demands of their people or they will be voted out, while in the Middle East, Africa and most of Asia, autocratic governments don't have to respond to the concerns of ordinary people.
So it is the concerns of the common people in western countries that is causing such rapid action in response to the war in Ukraine from western politians and bureucrats, instead of their slow, methodical and largely ineffective action against civil wars in Burma, South Sudan, Yemen, etc.
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