On the 340th anniversary of the signing of the “Eternal peace” in Moscow: the geopolitical fate of the Ukrainian space in a metahistorical perspective

Abstract

Based on historical-genetic and structural-functional analysis, as well as the method of binary oppositions, the author analyzes the significance of the “Treaty of eternal peace” between Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, according to which the results of the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667 were legally enshrined at the interstate level. A scientific understanding of this date is of particular importance in the context of a radical shift in Russia’s favor on the fronts of the Special military operation and the intensification of international dialogue aimed at finding optimal conditions for sustainable long-term peace. The author views the Special military operation as an objective and necessary response to the most pressing challenges of the time, expressed in the position of the collective West on geopolitical isolation and radical weakening of the Russian state with the prospect of depriving it of geopolitical subjectivity and turning it into building material for the so-called “new world order”. It is emphasized that what is happening in the space now called “Ukraine” is far from the first time. The article is based on a metahistorical approach and contains an analysis of the geopolitical technologies of the collective West. The author examines the optimal conditions for ending the conflict.