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When I think about Ukrainian refugees right now, I think about these pictures of scene

of the roads leading out of the country. They've been jam-packed, some people have simply

ditched their vehicles on the side of the road and walked into countries like Poland or

Hungary, with their rolling bags bumping behind them. According to the UN, 870,000 people

have fled. In under a week. Yeah. And the UN saying that it's going to surpass a million

within days.

I called up Serena Peric because she studies refugees at Northeastern University. She said,

looking at pictures like this, it's hard not to think back to Europe's last refugee crisis.

If you think back to 2015 and the Syrian refugees that were arriving in Italy and Greece

that summer, this week is 10 times higher rate of refugees leaving the country than at the

highest point of that crisis. And that felt overwhelming. We had never seen such huge

numbers. How could we possibly absorb this many people? That was the rhetoric at the time,

at least. And this week we've seen 10-fold level of displacement.

You know, I saw one journalist point out something that struck me. They said that the people

we're seeing now, it's not just that it's just the beginning. It's that these are the people with

the means to get out early. Like they've got cars, they can hit the road. It just made me wonder,

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