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The region continues to need that involvement – on time, on message, and on a proper democratic platform, one that is distinct from both traditional US intervention and Latin America’s traditional indifference.
The global response to the horrors in Kenya in 2008 was a spectacular contrast to the indifference that greeted the butchery in Rwanda.
Given other North Korean institutions’ apparent indifference to the mess that the Kims have made of their country, there seems scant chance of any serious change of course being initiated from within.
Given its increasingly isolated international position in Asia, if North Korea’s internal conflicts become acute, China may find it difficult to behave toward Kim Jong-un with anything but cold and anxiety-ridden indifference.
And recall that it was indifference to the non-reforming East European communist regimes on the part of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union that ultimately sealed their fate and delivered Havel from a prison cell to Prague Castle.
Havel, of course, was a beneficiary of such indifference, but he never practiced it, remaining a fighter for truth and freedom throughout his life.
This might, perhaps, create a climate in which there would not be so much particularism in the world, so much indifference, so much tolerance for obvious evils, indifference often motivated by egoism or by narrow economic or geopolitical interests.
What accounts for this apparent indifference – also evident among European politicians – to the looming political risks in Britain?
Europe’s final error was a certain level of indifference to fair burden-sharing.
The saddest part of the story is Israel’s utter indifference to the need to build international legitimacy for its drive to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
Indeed, Germany’s indifference toward the pain inflicted on Greece is inscribed in its language.
Why the indifference?
That indifference was no doubt shaped by the deeply ingrained prejudices of the time, as well as by widespread suspicion of all strangers.
But recalling the plight of Europe’s Jews in the 1930s should compel us to reject indifference to the fate of those with nowhere else to turn.
Given the public’s high regard for the Israeli defense establishment, particularly relative to the government, voters’ indifference is a mystery.
The countries of Eastern Europe had to pay a heavy price for Stalin's ambitions, Roosevelt's unrealistic expectations, and Churchill's indifference -- in short, for the West’s illusory attempt to create and maintain an intimate postwar collaboration.
Having just passed through the bloodiest century in human history, increasing the zone of indifference to the ultimate goals of others--as long as they are not directed against us--should be mankind's top priority.
But self-interested indifference does not mean a lack of mutual concern.
But, to the extent that the funds contributed to internal repression, or to the personal enrichment of the regime’s leaders, lenders may bear some responsibility, at least for relieving taxpayers of the burden of debt contracted against, or with indifference towards, their interests.
Even sadder is that while Pakistani newspapers widely condemned these attacks and criticized local officials’ indifference, there has been almost no coverage in the international press.
Talks between their respective foreign ministers were called off when the Pakistanis proposed meeting Indian Kashmiri separatist leaders – a common practice, to which earlier Indian governments had responded with official indifference.
But Japan’s political system is unlikely to remain a matter of popular indifference for much longer.
The author Anne Applebaum has compared Western indifference to what is happening in Xinjiang today with the willful determination of European governments and the Vatican to ignore the famine Joseph Stalin engineered in Ukraine in 1932-33, and the Nazi concentration camps a decade later.
Instead, he chose to wax eloquent from a bastion of European elitism, uttering words that ordinary Poles will greet with indifference, if not hostility.
This apparent indifference has a lot to do with what many believe Charlie Hebdo represents: the freedom to express yourself in a way that might provoke others.
During his third presidential term – he is now on his fourth – he focused more on defending his entourage from accusations of corruption or indifference than on keeping ordinary Russians happy.
This is both standard and essential in most natural sciences; in economics, by contrast, there is mostly indifference and occasionally even fierce resistance to it.
These are among the wages of Trump running the White House as a family business and of his indifference toward governance norms.
In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown indifference, at best, to acts of political violence by Hindu extremists, often directed at Muslims.
A less-publicized incident from the previous year underscores the extent of the Trump administration’s indifference to the plight of journalists.
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