As always BAR contributors provide commentary and analysis on a variety of subject matters, but Ukraine is the editorial focus this week. Carpathian Ruthenia rests on the southern slopes of the eastern Carpathian Mountains, bordered to the east and south by the Tisza River, and to the west by the Hornád and Poprad Rivers.The region borders Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania, and makes up part of the Pannonian Plain.. Pro-Ukraine demonstrators carry signs and Ukrainian flags near Russia’s U.N. Mission in New York, Feb. 24, 2022 (AP photo by Seth Wenig). Two days later, India abstained on a vote at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that set up an international commission of inquiry into Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Of the 15 members of the Security Council, 11 voted in favor and Russia unsurprisingly used its veto to kill the resolution. For months President Vladimir Putin had denied he would invade his neighbour, but then he tore up a peace deal, sending forces across borders in Ukraine’s north, east and south. Russian leader Vladimir Putin invaded and colonized Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula, an occupation that continues to this day, and backed Russian proxies in eastern Donbas who continue to wage war for the past eight years. On March 2, the United Nations General Assembly voted, 141 to 5, on a resolution condemning Russia for invading Ukraine. Russia and the US-led NATO military alliance have recently been at odds over Ukraine, among other issues. Despite virtue signalling their support via Twitter the Obama administration did little to help Ukraine in 2014. This issue of Black Agenda Report gives special attention to events in Ukraine. • The U.S./NATO has not threatened China with war. In the fifteenth century Ukraine clashed with the Crimean Khanate. The region is predominantly rural and infrastructurally underdeveloped. • Taiwan is extremely vital to U.S. national security interests & produces semiconductors, defense tech, etc. The solidarity between China and Russia reflected in Friday’s joint statement goes far beyond the immediate crisis in Ukraine or the tensions over Taiwan and has an epochal significance heralding a new era in international relations based on a pluralistic world order where the role of the US will no longer be exclusive or defining. Ukraine has basically three options ranging in severity: functionally cede a chunk of eastern Ukraine to Russia like it did in Crimea, hit … During the period 1500–1800, this region was taken under Russian control. “You matter, Africa matters,” said Phee, who was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in April 2021 to … China, India and the United Arab Emirates abstained. • China has made overt threats of annexing Taiwan. Russia has now launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine using some of the most sophisticated, modern weaponry in defiance of the rest of the world. By air, land, and sea, Russia has launched a devastating attack on Ukraine, a European democracy of 44 million people. The United States government on Sunday announced that it was providing $54 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion. They were ages 8 to 15 and lived in five countries — the U.S., China, Fiji, India and Sweden. • Russia has made zero threats of invading/annexing Ukraine. The United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Mary Catherine Phee, on Thursday morning, called on African nations to join America in condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, asserting that unity remains the best way to restore peace in Europe. Between 2009 and 2018, she asked nearly 140 girls to draw a princess. Even Ukraine itself, in spite of its deep and demented fear and loathing of Russia dating back a thousand years to the first emergence of … This week Black Agenda Report focuses on the conflict taking place in Ukraine. In fact, inflation is climbing through through the roof. Ukraine is a patchwork of morsels that belonged until recently to different empires – Austro-Hungarian and Russian – as well as several nations, such as Russia, Poland and Romania. A barrel of oil is already over US $100; prices of natural gas, flour and other commodities are rising. This has thrown the whole world in crisis. Ad Policy ... and to reject fake “peace initiatives” that suggest an equivalence between colonizer and … A Fulbright scholar who lived and worked Ukraine and a Russian history professor based in Las Cruces spoke about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. • Ukraine’s economy is 1/40th that of Taiwan and is in free fall. On the culture front between “Rashka” and Ukraine. It regroups Catholicism and Orthodoxy, and has millions of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers with deep historical, cultural and economic links with Russia. The steppe and forest-steppe of Ukraine and southern Russia is good agricultural land, but it was traditionally held by pastoral nomads.Any state that could drive off the nomads and fill the land with tax-paying peasants would expand its power enormously. Northern borderlands initially colonized by Rus princes increasingly diverged from the Kyivan culture with the rise of the Duchy of Muscovy. Washington and its allies have been accusing Russia of plans to invade Ukraine by amassing 100,000 troops and armaments near the border with the former Soviet Union country. India, the world’s largest democracy, abstained from the vote.