"The fall of the Soviet Union represented a great
opportunity for the world to mend Cold War wounds"
beyond its territorial boundaries. As
such, Stalin convinced both Churchill
and Roosevelt that a post-World War II
world would need to take the Russian
security fears into consideration and
include a curtain of buffer states in its
periphery. In other words, “Russia’s
security and global influence have
always been linked to the state’s ability
to defend itself from attack”. To achieve
this they have expanded their borders
into more geographically defendable
locations, sometimes forming buffer
states that could serve as early warning
systems in case of a massive attack.
The fall of the Soviet Union
represented a great opportunity for the
world to mend Cold War wounds and
join together in the same march.
However, the Americans were less
interested in bringing Russia closer to
the west and more determined to
declare the triumph of capitalist
democracies
versus
socialist
oligarchies. The United States has
failed to use its tools, such as Nato, to
reshape its foreign policy so that it
reflects a world where Communism is
no longer a relevant enemy. Instead,
and while proudly wearing the colors
of victory against its ideological
adversaries,
communism
has
“perpetuated the logic of confrontation
and division”. From a strategic point-
of-view, both Russian and Western
interests in Ukraine seem to be
undoubtedly strategic in nature, just as
Cold War 2.0