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What should we do? Nothing, because it most likely won't help.
I'm not saying that we didn't help other opressed people in the past we shouldn't now. I'm saying that we are not helping other opressed people with similar needs today so how do we choose?
On what basis do Ukranians deserve help but Palestianans and Yemanis do not? Or Somalis?
What is happening is that we, the public, are being played. Because in one war the aggressor is our adversary and we have no interest in their success as they don't buy much from us. And in the others the aggressor is our ally who does buy loads of stuff from us.
There is no principle at work here, it's pure economic interest. I would love there to be a principled foreign policy - I cheered loudly when New Labour came in with that in 1997 - but it didn't last five minutes, certainly not five years to Iraq or to Saudi arms deals. And I don't believe it is going to start any time soon.