![]() values and interests… seeks to restore its great-power status and establish spheres of influence near its borders.” The problem is not that the two nations view each other as rivals or competitors. Russia, according to the 2017 United States National Security Strategy, “wants to shape a world antithetical to U.S. From the American point of view, Russia serves as a globally destabilizing and disruptive force working to enhance its own global influence. Russia believes that Western nations’ desire to maintain hegemony weakens international and domestic institutions, destroys the Russian economy, and increases geopolitical instability. Unlike the Cold War, however, today’s Russo-American rivalry has less to do with the ideological incompatibility of Communism and Liberal-Capitalism and more to do with diverging strategic cultures and the logic of realpolitik. The war’s battlespace is everywhere and, until recently, not isolatable to any particular point on a map. does not recognize and refuses to accept. ![]() ![]() Russia is engaged in an undeclared state of war that the U.S. ![]()
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