Author: Mekhrubon E

United Nations, currently made up of 193 member states and two permanent non-observer states, is an intergovernmental organization whose purpose is to maintain peace and security among nations. It was established after WWII with the goal to prevent future wars. Its headquarters are in New York City, where all the world’s nations can gather together to discuss problems and share solutions that benefit everyone.

On February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine, internationally considered a war of aggression, military conflict for territorial gain. In October 2021, Russia began moving troops and military equipment near its border with Ukraine, satellite images, social media posts showed missiles and heavy weapons moving toward Ukraine with no explanation. By December more than one hundred troops wear near the border between Ukraine and Russia and officials warned that Russian might be planning to invade Ukraine. Russia reached U.S. and NATO and set demands to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO in the future, but NATO and allies rejected these demands and imposed severe economic penalties. On February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine, internationally considered a war of aggression, military conflict for territorial gain. More than 900 civilians have died and another 1469 have been wounded, bombing an art school in Ukrainian port city in Mariupol leading to 800 people being sheltered.

While in the U.N, the general assembly has voted to demand that Russia stop and withdraw all its troops. The results were 142 states in favor while 5 are against and 35 are in abstention. U.E. ambassador Olof Skoog quoted “The world has spoken. The Russian government must immediately stop the aggression, withdraw its troops, and abide by the rules of the UN Charter that apply to all, equally.”This is not just about Ukraine, he continued. This is not just about Europe. This is about defending an international order based on rules we all have signed up to, and the sovereign equality of all states, large and small. This is about whether we choose tanks and missiles, or dialogue and diplomacy.” Peaceful action against the Russian Ukrainen war must be taken soon or later it can cause the world a disaster WWIII and will horribly impact each of our life.

“In the reading Chronicles of a Once Pessimistic College Freshman” By Bilal Rahmani, I think Rahmani’s Intellectual home is the college he attended. At first, he starts off like a dropout student, someone who’s forcing themselves to attend college, describes his counselor as a “dictator” for choosing a class for him, rather than helping him out and doing his choice of interest. Then he calls out college and the students very depressing and was very careless toward his class, professor, and college. He was smart and had very high test scores and felt like he didn’t belong in that environment. He lacked motivation and support. Until one day, a stunts called out the answer right before him, then classmates joined and kept on adding their thoughts,  while Rahmani also wanted to add his all of a sudden, and be part of the conversation. I think that class conversation within the whole class, students engaging with one another,  is what interested Rahmani in education, and made his college an intellectual home.