However, this imperialist thirst is also related to the geopolitical insecurity of the Ukrainians that transpires inside and outside. A country extremely divided and polarized in terms of its place in the world, with little more than half of its population yearning to belong to the European sphere of influence and the rest to the Russian one. This strategic lack of definition has fluttered the foreign national interests, those who fight to seal hegemonies and stamp global superiority.
Although the conflict presents a complex game of multilateralities, it puts forward the repositioning of Russia on the international scene. Recovering its status as a global power and seeking parity in international relations forces it to defend its spheres of influence.
Emphasizing its domain spaces is the main asset of its international strategy that is spliced with resentment and humiliation for having lost the Cold War and with it the implosion of the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 republics.
We cannot ignore the fact that Vladimir Putin described the fall of the USSR as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”. For this reason, it reliably seeks that NATO stop its policy of open and globalizing doors and prevent Ukraine from entering the Euro-Atlantic alliance, claiming legal guarantees. Without a doubt, the West violates its security.
With all the intention of controlling his most immediate environment and defending his national interests, Putin interrupts the geopolitical plans of the United States and China to continue with their bilateral escalation encrypted in a new Cold War. In the spirit of undermining the bipartisan policy of the Chinese First Inside the United States, the Kremlin is beginning to receive the attention it has longed for and requested for decades, thanks to the provocation mounted in Ukraine with the recent deployment of more than 100,000 Russian troops on its western border.
The message is unrelenting: Before China can be checked, subtracted and counterbalanced, they will first have to deal with Russia and address its historic claims. To remain a bystander in the Sino-American conflict would be to leave the fate of Russia in the hands of third parties.