We don’t need a war

Abstract

On Feb. 24, Russian troops launched an attack on Ukraine. In the days since, Russian forces have struck the 44-million-strong democratic country by air, land, and sea, prompting an exodus of refugees. According to the BBC , more than 1 million people have now fled Ukraine since the invasion began and are crossing to neighboring countries such as Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. To avert some of the long-term effects of what is quickly becoming a humanitarian crisis, the European Union is preparing to grant war-displaced Ukrainians a blanket right to remain for up to 3 years in any of the countries that form the EU, the BBC says. Russian troops also occupied the Chernobyl nuclear plant, which was the site of a major explosion in 1986 that devastated the surrounding area. This news is terrifying, to say the least, and would put any government on high alert. The situation raised