Part 1

                                                            Clash of civilizations

The West sees the war in Ukraine as non-provoked Russian aggression against Ukraine, and the sanctions imposed on Russia as response to this aggression to inflict damage on Russian economy that could undermine the Putin regime and force the Kremlin to stop the war. Ultimately, Moscow will have to compromise with Washington and to abandon its ambitions to make Russia equal in power and influence to the United States as a world power.

Russia views the war in Ukraine as an operation to eliminate the threat to its existence created by the West and as the first stage in confrontation with the United States that will allow Russia to ensure the necessary level of strategic security and to destroy the existing system of financial, economic and political relations in the world created on the principles of Western democracy and based on the political and financial dominance of the United States.
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