🌏 The New Phase of Global Power Balance

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After 1991, the United States emerged as the world’s sole superpower. The former colonial powers of Europe, weakened since World War II, aligned themselves under its leadership. Following the Soviet collapse, NATO’s rapid expansion accelerated—beginning with Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic in 1999, and continuing through 2004, 2009, 2017, and even 2024. This expansion gradually pushed Western military structures right up to Russia’s borders.

Russia–Ukraine War: Long-Term Strategy and Global Political Impact

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Russia is fighting in Ukraine against a broad coalition of NATO and the European Union, which are providing weapons, financial assistance, training, and strategic support. In this front, Ukraine is only one hand of the West through which it is trying to exert strategic pressure on Russia and force it to bend.

NATO, Russia, and the Cycles of Distrust

NATO, Russia, and the Cycles of Distrust

Cold War Origins of Suspicion

The roots of mutual distrust reach back to NATO’s creation in 1949. In the immediate postwar years, Western planners quietly considered military scenarios against the USSR—such as Britain’s “Operation Unthinkable” in 1945—which envisioned armed confrontation. Though never executed, the plan revealed the enduring Western assumption that the Soviet Union was a potential adversary.

From Moscow’s perspective, NATO’s very nature was offensive: a bloc built not just to defend, but to contain and pressure the USSR. To Western leaders, NATO was a shield; to Soviet strategists, a spear.