Ukraine in the Focus of the Confrontation between the American-Centric West and Russia

Abstract

The world is experiencing crisis systemic transitional transformations. The asymmetry of existing strategic potentials and balances of power is increasing. Accordingly, the antagonistic variability of geopolitical approaches to reformatting the world order is expanding. The previous conflictogenicity has abruptly passed into the stage of a tough confrontation, fraught with a rapid increase in interdependent risks – military-strategic, geopolitical, geoeconomic. The axial lines of confrontation/rivalry between the USA and Russia, the USA and China, integrated Europe and Russia are becoming increasingly contrasting, on which acute conflict divisions and splits in the Middle East are superimposed. A dangerous military-political arc has formed around Russia through the targeted efforts of the united West led by the USA. The clearly expressed internationalization of the Ukrainian crisis has actually turned into a hybrid war of the West against Russia. The natural aspiration of Russia, like any country, to protect national and state interests, strengthen its spiritual and historical heritage, and expand its cultural and civilizational presence in the world is viewed with caution and suspicion by the US government and the countries that blindly orient themselves toward them, as a kind of marginal challenge to all of humanity and an encroachment on the value foundations of civilizational development.