Stop Making Jokes About Ukraine and Start Seeing It As the War Zone It Has Become

Russia has invaded Ukraine in what has become a devastating series of events leaving the world to ponder what will come next.

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Generation Z has lived through a lot. 

Many of us were born into a world of terror, opening our eyes for the first time in the direct aftermath of the September 11th attacks and the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and neighboring countries that followed. We came up in a time of historic racial tensions and achievements including the United State…