Throughout human history state leaders have never got tired of the tactic of diverting attention from domestic problems to a crafted or exaggerated foreign enemy. So when we are directed to an oversea scene, we should really ask “what’s happening in my country?”
Imam shafi’i (rahimahullah) would always make du’a before a debate that Allah put the truth on the tongue of his opponent, so that people can be rightly guided, and his ego won’t be involved. Oh Allah let truth be told, and keep us unknown.
It is sad that the sense of identity in the modern time often comes from a process of “othering”. I am me because I am NOT YOU. We have totally discarded the reality of bani Adam and fanatically embraced bani X/Y/Z.