To the Issue of the Causes and Prerequisites of the Global Political Crisis of 2022

Abstract

This study comprehensively analyzes the causes and prerequisites of the global political crisis of 2022 associated with the start of the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine and the global confrontation between Russia and the West. The relations of the Russian Federation with Western countries from the moment of its formation to the present were examined in detail. As a result, conclusions were drawn that the West initially placed Russia in a lower position in comparison with itself, developing strategies to weaken it and hold it back. The West considered itself the winner of the Cold War, and therefore viewed Russia's attempts to build a multipolar world as a threat to its hegemony. As a result, Western countries began to provoke conflicts near the borders of Russia, bringing Russophobic regimes to power in states neighboring the Russian Federation in order to achieve the isolation of Russia. After Western countries refused to resolve the situation through peaceful diplomatic means, Russia launched a Special Military Operation in 2022 to end the Ukrainian crisis and ensure its own security by force. But it was Western countries who turned this conflict from local to global, providing military-political, economic and informational support to the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine and starting a global civilizational confrontation with Russia.