Strong reasons for why people are so interested in this conflict?
Here are a few reasons Americans seem to be so interested in it:
1. We’re paying for a decent chunk of it, both financially and in terms of international political support
2. It cross-cuts American society along very unique dimensions, creating ad-hoc coalitions between people who don’t normally collaborate very much (e.g. far right white supremacists and Zionists, or far left commies and jihadists). These coalitions are already impacting American domestic affairs and will likely influence our upcoming elections.
3. In general it’s reasonable to pay close attention to situations where a thousand people are killed in a terrorist attack under the purview of a western security apparatus or when an urban area is subject to an aggressive counterinsurgency campaign (given that they tend to be humanitarian disasters even in the best of circumstances)
4. This conflict has a very high potential to unravel into a regional and even global conflict given the networks backing each belligerent
How exactly is it odd that people care so much about the situation?