By Esther Brito Ruiz, American University School of International Service and Jeff Bachman, American University School of International Service | …
The U.S. has provided Ukraine more than $75 billion in military and other aid to support its war efforts. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesWar entails suffering. How and how often that suffering is reported on in the U.S., however, is not evenhanded. Take, for example, the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in March 2015 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The media attention afforded to the crises reveals biases that relate less to the human consequences of the conflicts th