Problem
War in Ukraine Module: U.S. and Western Support for Ukraine:
A. How was the attack on the city of Dnipro representative of Russia's current military strategy in Ukraine? Why is Russia targeting Ukrainian cities and residential areas located far from the front lines?
B. Why are the U.S. and its allies supporting Ukraine in its conflict with Russia?
C. What economic sanctions has the West applied to Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine? What were the U.S. and its allies hoping to accomplish with these sanctions?
D. Why was Russian energy originally excluded from Western sanctions?
E. How effective has Western sanctions been in undermining Russia's war effort? Why has the Russian economy been relatively resilient in the face of Western sanctions?
F. How has Western military aid impacted the war between Ukraine and Russia? Why is the U.S. and its allies providing a new round of advanced weapons to Ukraine now?
G. What is the U.S. strategy for supplying Ukraine with military aid? How has this strategy produced distinct stages in the war?