The role of the Russian-Ukrainian war in exacerbating the European Union's energy crisis

Abstract

Abstract: It is not surprising that Russia seeks to regain the position it lost following the collapse of the Soviet Union in late 1990 and early 1991, which represented a resounding end to the Soviet empire and its geopolitical ambitions, given that it considers itself the legitimate heir to the Soviet Union. It has returned through a strategy of self-building to be an internal starting point for moving towards the regional and then international framework. Within the framework of the geopolitical orientation on how to restore regional and international status, there was no deep intellectual separation regarding the importance of the regions that were under its control, or in its previous strategic perspective compared to the current perspective of the Russian Federation.