Russia has officially invaded Ukraine, and reports have indicated Chinese aircraft entered Taiwan’s airspace. Some social media users have questioned if the United States is heading into a new global conflict and if they would be drafted into service. Service in the U.S. military has been voluntary since 1973, but Congress could at any time reinstate…

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine now officially underway, worldwide attention is focused on Eastern Europe amidst fears of a world war. Ukrainians who fought Russia back in 2014 are picking up arms once again to defend their homeland. While this is all playing out, Vladimir Putin continues to play President Biden like a fiddle.…

Residents and leaders of the world responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with near universal condemnation. Protests formed at Russian embassies around the world Thursday. According to OVD-Info, a rights group that tracks political arrests, over 1,600 protesters in Russia have been arrested. Over 900 of those have been arrested in Moscow. “My message to…

Taiwan’s defense ministry confirmed on Twitter that China flew nine planes into Taiwan’s air defense zone. None of the planes made it to Taiwan itself. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has flown into the air defense zone regularly over the last couple years. Thursday’s flight of nine planes pales in comparison to…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is now underway, a move President Biden called “unprovoked and unjustified”. Russia attacked Ukraine with air and missile strikes, along with ground forces coming from three directions. Reports suggest Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, has also been attacked. “It is a major move by Putin and an unwise one that the West has to counter,” said…

In 2020, Mercer University professor Dr. Chris Grant was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to live and conduct academic research in Ukraine. First, the pandemic delayed his plans to move from Georgia to Kyiv. Now, his plans have changed again due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In January 2022, Grant and his 12 year-old daughter left…

Russia has launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine’s government pleaded for help as it said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in a “full-scale war” that could rewrite the geopolitical order. “Russia has embarked on…

As Russia invades Ukraine, the Biden administration is responding with a typical and ineffective strategy: sanctions. We’ve tried this time and time again with no success. Even the Russians have openly stated sanctions are a waste. The Russian UN ambassador said, ‘We’ve been sanctioned so many times, we’ve lost count, we’ve learned to live with it.’…

Russia has followed through with its months-long threats of invasion of Ukraine. The Russian military has not focused on securing the separatist republics of eastern Ukraine; rather, the Russian military, under the direction of President Vladimir Putin, has launched missile and air strikes across the country with an aim of crushing not only the Ukrainian…

As two of the United States’ biggest foreign policy issues, some have compared the tensions between Russia and Ukraine to the tensions between China and Taiwan. On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the two situations are not the same. Her comments came as Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called for the island…