Ukrainian and syrian issues in international relations as two sides of geopolitics

Taking into consideration this state of affairs we can reach preliminary conclusion that the Kremlin is showing abnormal “offend” for the defeat in the Cold War and it finally proclaimed post-Soviet/Eurasian space as the area of their special interests, going even to the annexation of the territories of neighboring states. The counterstrategy of West is the support of democratic values, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Eurasia and its violation is the basis for the introduction of economic sanctions against Russia.

It is known that the introduction of the world's leading economic powers sanction restrictions and the fall in world oil prices to 30 dollars per barrel, in the aggregate has become the deterrent factor that stopped the advance deeper intentions of sovereign Ukraine to implement the project Novorosia. This project, recall, involved the creation of the territory of eight Ukrainian regions puppet buffer state.

The vast majority of policy experts argue that solving networked or so-called hybrid war and using the ambiguous position of some EU members such as the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria and Italy, Russia is doing her best to achieve prevention of turning Ukraine into a full-fledged geopolitical foothold for further expansion of West Pax Americana in Eurasia. Highlighting the potential for radical imbalance of checks and balances in the modern world, Russian President V. Putin predicted in one of his statements multiplication of regional conflicts indirect interests of the great powers as a result of failure to reckon with the geopolitical interests of each other. This Russian leader said that risk should primarily include unstable countries that are at the intersection of geopolitical interests of the main centers of international power. Thus, according to the Russian president's rhetoric such message essentially announced the start of a new Cold War between Russia and West [42]. Thus, during the current geo-political and security crisis in the world can observe the formation of a new international order involving the participation of all the great powers of our time. In particular the US are trying to further the participation of its allies to expand Pax Americana. Stay unipolar world traditionally opposed to China and Russia, and to a lesser extent India and Brazil. The above state advocates building a world concert - multipolarity, which is an alternative to American global construct. In such circumstances, medium and small states are almost out involving reformatting world order, and often do serve as means to counter and defend global interests of the great powers.

Therefore, Ukraine has become a field of struggle of Atlantic and Eurasian paradigm transformation of world order and international security. There is a reason to believe that the destruction of the mechanisms of checks and balances and formation of precedent for borders change will open the page in rise of conflict in modern international environment. With the aggravation between major centers of power (US, EU, Russia) although Ukraine is a significant factor of changing world order, but still it becomes more a kind of “experimental” area of geopolitics. Russia, with the great economic losses is trying to keep its neighbors in its influence despite minimal chances to win in the competition with the West. In general, depending on which of leading international players will keep Kyiv, that international player will ultimately determine not only the future of the Eurasian terrain but of the whole world order. Russia plays a double game in Syria - as causing air strikes on opposition forces fighting the regime of B. al-Assad, and in places where forces ISIS. This dualistic geopolitics aimed, on the one hand, to support the Assad's regime, whom Moscow considers the only legitimate representative of Syria; On the other hand, blows on ISIS shows support for anti-terrorism coalition of Western countries in the fight against international terrorism.

Another reason for Russia's participation in the Syrian conflict is low world oil prices. Therefore, the Russian presence in the Middle East and its controlled destabilization can act as pressure on oil monarchy, particularly Saudi Arabia. Thus, Russia is trying to create at least the illusion that the sphere of its interests is not only the Eurasian space, but also to any other part of the world.

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