Afrasianet - Since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the world's attention has shifted towards this war, whose effects did not stop at the borders of the two warring countries.

However, its economic, political, and human fragments affected those who have no interest in it, and the consequences of it will be reflected on the entire international scene, and the existing world order after World War II.

The Russian-Ukrainian war is not only a war between the two direct confrontation parties; But it is a war behind which the United States of America stands, present in all its details, and led to igniting its fuse and fanning its flames, from which neither the Americans themselves nor the European allies were spared; This is to tame the whole world with its flames; To achieve a new alignment, in its battle to maintain the global hegemony of the American-led West that continued after World War II, and began to suffer from the erosion of global influence in the last two decades.

The importance of the war between Russia and Ukraine is also due to the nature of the two countries - the first is an "active strategic player", and the second is an "important and critical geopolitical axis" - according to the perspective of American strategic geography, and America's geopolitical interests in Europe and Asia, in the words of the American diplomat and political scientist of origin The late Polish “Zbigniew Brzezinski” in writing “The Great Chessboard” in 1997. At that time, Brzezinski identified five major geostrategic players and five pivotal geopolitical states in the new political map of Eurasia, "Europe and Asia".

The main geostrategic players are: France, Germany, and Russia; China, and India. As for the critically important fixed geopolitical axes, they are: Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and South Korea; And Turkey and Iran, although Turkey and Iran are considered geostrategic to some extent, and within their limited capabilities in general. Speak here to Brzezinski.

Unipolar America Since the end of World War II, the world has lived through a bipolar struggle for fifty years, between the two largest powers in the world, America and the Soviet Union. with the aim of achieving global domination.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the United States became the sole pole in the world, and the first superpower that has no competitor.

The US states, superior to others, combined hard power and soft power. As for hard power, it is represented in the use of physical military means to coerce or change, and as for soft power, it depends on influence, institutions, diplomatic tools, spreading ideas, and others.

With the American supremacy in hard and soft power, the United States of America possessed other reasons of superiority that gave it the ability to coerce it.

Through which you can use coercion better than your enemies, which are as follows: America occupied the central position in the interconnected world systems; With what it can harm, even China, with its importance in the global economy.

The United States of America also has the best intelligence capabilities, and in this regard is superior to all countries in the world at all. – The United States of America also has a balanced economy, and the largest share of the global economy’s output, and despite the decline in this share in 2021 and its significant change over the past 60 years, the gross domestic product amounted to ($ 22.9 trillion), about 25% of the global economic output in 2021, and China came in second place in terms of nominal GDP, which amounted to about $ 17 trillion in 2021, although China represented the largest industrialized country in the world.

Based on the above, the obsession that dominates the American strategy maker is how America maintains its global dominance?

Hence, the task facing the United States is to manage conflicts and relations in Europe, Asia, the East, and the Middle East, in a manner that does not enable any competing country to rise to threaten American interests or the state of prosperity prevailing in America.

Brzezinski expressed this in The Great Chessboard, saying: “In short, the Eurasian geostrategy adopted by the United States includes the targeted or decisive management exercised on dynamic countries geostrategically, and the careful containment of geopolitically influential countries, by taking into account the dual interests of America.”

In preserving in the short term its unique global power, and in transforming this power in the long term into global cooperation of an institutional nature that is increasing with time. retreat and attempts to maintain dominance The second decade and the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a decline and contraction for the United States of America. On the external level, the decline of American influence in the Middle East, and the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan dealt a strong blow to American prestige, and with it the confidence of many of America's traditional allies was shaken.

On the domestic level, it was the economic downturn, the repercussions of the Corona crisis, and the divisions between Republicans and Democrats.

The American decline, both internally and externally, encouraged many to take steps to challenge American hegemony.

This prompted him to say that the United States was aging, and that the world was preparing for its relinquishment of the seat of global sovereignty, and all eyes were directed towards China as a competitor to American hegemony.

The most urgent question within the United States of America, as well as on the international level, was: Has the United States lost its international prestige?

Have the plans to maintain Western hegemony led by America failed?

With the beginning of the war in Ukraine, another question was raised:

Did the war come to open a door for the revival of Western hegemony?

Referring to the causes of the war, we will find that there are historical reasons and immediate reasons, and the place may not be able to detail these reasons, but it is worth noting here that the relationship between Ukraine and the West has been tense since its independence from the Soviet Union, and the idea of including Ukraine into NATO was not on the table until 1990. 2008, according to a report published in the American magazine “

The Diplomat” by researchers from the University of Oxford, that William Burns, the US ambassador to Russia at the time, had warned that even promising to join NATO in the future would lead to “creating fertile ground for Russian intervention in the peninsula.” Crimea and Eastern Ukraine”. Based on the foregoing, it is clear that this war is the result of a geopolitical crisis. Its main mover was hinting at the possibility of Ukraine joining the European Union, and Russia sensing danger from efforts to include Ukraine in NATO.

Where this means the presence of NATO forces and US weapons on its western borders.

There is no doubt that the American act is behind the ignition of this war, but can this act extinguish its repercussions, which affected America itself and behind it Europe, the subservient follower of America?

America is fully aware that the attempt to break up Russia is an unattainable dream, no matter what it does and is doing by imposing sanctions and pumping weapons on Ukraine impulsively and pushing Europe with it. And she realizes that she will not succeed in achieving this goal.