Watching an Invasion From Afar
Kevin Almasy
Communications x strategy to help Pell-eligible students graduate college and earn a quality first job
Like all of us, I have spent a lot of time in front of the TV and on the internet this past week watching images and video of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It has been hard to keep up with and/or digest. My personal contextualization of the scale of what I’ve been absorbing from my couch in Texas remains a struggle (though I guess that is why war feels undefinable).
The speed at which anti-invasion sentiment grew from personal outrage to global financial banishment has similarly been difficult to contextualize. Nothing like this has ever occurred before (not hyperbole).
I'm still trying to widen my aperture. But in lieu of more thoughts, below are three resources that I've relied upon to increase my understanding: