I'll point out the obvious: Ukraine is simply too close to home for many of us Europeans - they're our neighbors, colleagues, friends, we vacation in Kiev, they're our football rivals. We broadly share culture, race, etc.
Few of those can be said about Iraq which is far away enough to seem some sort of abstract topic.
So, having war at home (vs. in a newspaper) is completely novel for us and therefore unacceptable.
Few of those can be said about Iraq which is far away enough to seem some sort of abstract topic.
So, having war at home (vs. in a newspaper) is completely novel for us and therefore unacceptable.