There are plenty of stories receiving inadequate attention these days. One of those is famine created by war, as reported here in the Washington Post:
The world is in the grip of an astonishing and acute crisis: More than 20 million people in South Sudan, Somalia, northern Nigeria and Yemen face starvation in the next six months, according to the United Nations. Nearly 1.4 million children are at “imminent risk” of death. The scale of the hunger epidemic was described last month by U.S.-based researchers as “unprecedented in recent decades.”
Unmentioned in the story: the U. S. is up to its neck in all of the conflicts mentioned above. Special Forces operations have been reported in all of them over the course of the last year. I can’t vouch for the veracity of the reports, of course, but that there are reports is undeniable.
Famine is always political. It’s either a weapon of war, a consequence of war, or a product of indifference.
South Sudan is a complete mess, the result of dumb do-gooders in the Bush and Obama administrations enabled by the bipartisan Sudan caucus in Congress.
The US doesn’t have any significant military involvement in South Sudan though. There’s really nothing for us to do there except support UN humanitarian efforts and protect the Embassy in Juba.