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RĂZBOIUL DIN UCRAINA: FAPTE-PERCEPȚII-PERSPECTIVE
THE WAR IN UKRAINE: FACTS-PERCEPTIONS-PERSPECTIVES

Author(s): Mircea Udrescu, Eugen Siteanu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Military history, Geopolitics
Published by: Editura Academiei Oamenilor de Știință din România
Keywords: Ukraine; Russian Federation; Europe; aggression; war; imperialism; democracy;

Summary/Abstract: Today, the issues of peace and war have returned to the old continent where the Russian Federation launched the war against Ukraine shattering the democratic utopia of the impossibility of war and reason and diplomacy as the dominant post-Cold War theme. It was found that post-imperial frustration generates neo-imperialism because Vladimir Putin considered that a democratic model for Ukraine, on the borders of Russia, undermines Putinism and therefore the imperfect Ukrainian democratic system must be destroyed. At the same time, Russia has always dreamed of a great power status and found that Russia alone cannot cope with this status and only the Russian World as a formula for restoring the post-Soviet Empire can help it reach the imperial heights it wants; for this she must conquer Ukraine. This article also deals with the return of the war of aggression on a large scale in Europe without, however, making predictions about the future of this Russian-Ukrainian war.

  • Issue Year: 1/2024
  • Issue No: 74
  • Page Range: 38-46
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian
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