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Steve Medeiros

Steve S Medeiros is a socio-cultural anthropology PhD Candidate in the Experimental Anthropology Lab at the University of Connecticut; a US Army combat veteran; and Affiliated Researcher at The William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences (WJI) at UMass Boston. His work is focused on sociality and psychological kinship in Ukrainian volunteers during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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They are just Shaheds!

by Steve Medeiros
A few days into the U.S.-Iran war, after Iran attacked many of its neighbors, my friend in Kyiv asked her 11-year-old son if he had heard about what was happening. Unworried, he replied they were firing "just Shaheds," and continued playing his game. Ukrainians by now have seen thousands of such attacks. Russia had been pounding Ukraine's energy infrastructure particularly hard lately, leaving precious little time for electricity to charge devices or for kids to play their video games. Iranian