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Re:The Dead Children We Must See by LAC-Tech on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @07:37PM (#38453811)
The one thing that I think has changed between now and the last time there was a major conflict is that the internet exists.

I would put it slightly differently. News has been more democratised - and we can argue whether that's good or bad - but people are more and more compiling their own version of events rather than relying on a tiny handful of elite journalists at prestigious institutions to compile it for them. There are also now a lot of English speaking Arabs online, which means their voices are heard more and more often.

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Re:The Dead Children We Must See by parl_match on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @07:39PM (#38453840)
I was being more broad, but yeah, I generally agree. It also has weakened the voice of a mainstream narrative from western powers (particularly the US gov).

Actually, and this is an aside, one of the reasons there's been such dissonance from western countries on this issue is the US' power has had a marked decrease since the Iraq Invasion. An invasion that was part of a long tantrum response to another atrocity. History repeats itself.

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