I think most people only generally care about conflicts under two circumstances. The first is in places where they have preformed opinions - Israel and Palestin

I think most people only generally care about conflicts under two circumstances. The first is in places where they have preformed opinions - Israel and Palestine is a huge example there. It's also why the "messaging" from the media was completely ineffective on that conflict. People don't care about spinproganda in things they already have opinions on. But on things they don't have opinions on, they mostly only care if the media focuses on it. And the media tends only focus on things that the US political establishment focuses on. And said establishment only cares about conflicts that stand to affect our geopolitical influence one way or the other. So for instance the Saudi "intervention" in Yemen is a great example of this reality playing out in real time. It's had hundreds of thousands of deaths and basically nobody cared, because the media scarcely brought it up. And the media rarely brought it up, because the US establishment didn't care. Relations with Saudi Arabia have completely tanked and they're fighting groups like the Houthis - so it was just a couple of "enemies" killing each other. Except now the Houthis have become quite relevant to US geopolitical interests, and so suddenly conflicts involving them become relevant to the US political establishment, and thus receiving substantially more coverage in the media. You can see this quite clearly through a Google Trends query for "Yemen." [1] The Saudi "intervention" began in 2015. Internal conflicts in Yemen have been going on for far longer than that. Interest suddenly spiked in Yemen in the middle of October 2023. The Houthis began prohibiting Israel linked traffic through the Suez Canal on October 19th. [1] - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=yemen&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...