In 2003 the United States government and its allies invaded Iraq in a war of aggression. Within 3 weeks, over 3,000 civilians had died under the bombs, and twenty years later Iraq has not recovered and no US official has been held accountable.

In 2022 the Russian government invaded Ukraine in a war of aggression. Currently the war is assuming the form of terrible sieges of Ukraine’s major cities. The death toll so far is unknown but around 1 million have already fled the country.

But newspapers did not cover the two events in quite the same way. That’s putting it mildly. I live in Ireland, so here are the headlines I’m seeing from our biggest newspaper. Here are five front pages each from the first week or so of the Iraq War (March 2003) and of the Ukraine War (Feb-March 2022). No further comment from me. The bias speaks for itself.