Russia’s geopolitics in the current international scenario and the Ukrainian conflict

Abstract

During periods of change in the processes of the global economic structure, a profound destabilization of the system of international relations occurs in the course of the destruction of the old world order and the formation of a new world order. The possibilities for socioeconomic development based on the existing system of institutions and technologies are being exhausted. Meanwhile, on the periphery of the global economic system, a new, more effective system for managing the development of economies is emerging. Therefore, the lamentable situation in Europe and the world may resemble the situation that led to the First World War, since the Soviet Union no longer exists, and the struggle between great powers is no longer for an ideology, but for commercial and geopolitical interests between powers. Due to this situation, Ukraine is now the focal point where the interests of the relatively declining international system and the new international actors emerging in the BRICS group are being debated. This is a conflict in which the countries of the European Union and the United States are participating to weaken one of the BRICS countries, Russia, with the strategy of disintegrating Russian territory, full of natural resources, and thus, with these resources in the hands of the West, confront China, the country that the West considers a threat to its global hegemony.