The Ukrainian people have been facing a major invasion by the Russian military with bombing and armored ground forces. The horrific situation has already killed thousands of people, and more than one million have fled. As cities are being bombarded, people have taken...
Russia has sent its powerful military forces to invade and occupy Ukraine. The U.S. and its European allies have responded, as they said they would, with economic sanctions against Russia. The actions of the rulers of all these countries has nothing to do with the...
Looking at the tension between Russia and Ukraine, it seems very easy to identify Putin as the “bad dictator,” and the United States as the “honest broker,” trying to de-escalate a potential war. After all, Russia went to war against Ukraine in 2014 to...
Right now, it seems like every day U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin trade threats over Ukraine. On Jan. 24, Biden said he was putting 8,500 U.S. troops on so-called “heightened alert,” meaning that they are immediately ready for deployment...
Ukraine has become the focus of the world’s attention. Three months of mass-protests centered around the Maidan square in Kiev has led to the removal of the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and the creation of a new government claiming to represent the...