Aleppo (Syria) has a horrifying mass death right now

[Alexander The So-so]

There's an article I found which lists and describes charities you can donate to, and actions to possibly take, to try to help. Everything counts right now.

www.upworthy.com/7-real-things-you-can-do-right-now-about-the-catastrophe-in-aleppo

[Alice Syndrome]

This is a shitshow. Both the government and the rebels would burn the entire country to the ground if it meant ruling the ashes.

[Mochi Lone Wolf]

Innocent people caught in the middle of a real life game of Risk.

It's okay, though, the three superpowers involved are doing all they can to help by.....sniping at each other in New York at the U.N.

[Chainsaw]

Dec 14, 2016 20:02:42 GMT -5 Dr. T is an alien said:

Dec 14, 2016 19:24:50 GMT -5 Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill said:

I honestly believe that this horrible, pointless war won't end until everyone in the country is either dead or escaped.
I can't even comprehend what these poor people, are going through.

I am not going to say that the war was ever the right approach, but it wasn't completely pointless.

I think of Syria as one of the first, if not the first, war waged due to climate change. Syria has been hit with a very long term drought (going on for at least 4 years now). This drought devastated the agriculture business in Syria and forced many rural workers to move to the cities to look for work. This influx of workers, combined with the economic turndown caused by the loss of agriculture, resulted in horrendous unemployment.

This, in turn, led to a desperate populace. This desperation made the populace ripe for outside influence to foment armed dissent. Now, I won't go into the outside influence since that violates the "no politics" rule.

It's the warmup swings of what the future of a lot of countries, if not all countries, are going to look like in 30 years. If that.