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I feel like it's more about money and international implications than whiteness. If China attacked a country like Taiwan or Vietnam, there would likely be a ton of press over it as well. An Ethiopian civil war has less economic implications globally.
Plus it's a civil war. I grew up in the Balkans and I can tell you that people gave so few fucks about the war of my country, that when the Ukraine war started they weren't bringing up Yugoslavia as a recent European conflict, they were talking about WWII. If your country isn't gonna make a huge impact on the global markets, nobody cares (even if you're blonde like many ex-Yugoslavians).
US is currently occupying a larger percentage of Syria than Russia is of Ukraine. Where are the sanctions, the outrage, and so on?