"The Shift in International Power Dynamics Due to the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War: An Analysis of the Performance of the United States and China"

The research focuses on the paths of international relations after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, due to the West’s insistence on including it in the European Union and NATO, which provoked Russia. Because this meant a threat to Russian national security, the escalation led to a loss of control over the management of the crisis, turning it into a Russian-Ukrainian war whose effects were reflected globally, after Russian President Vladimir Putin used the policy of proliferation and deterrence to confront the United States of America - and the European Union (NATO) and refute the policy of economic encirclement. This is the policy that sees the necessity of preventing the rise of the Russian bear or its alliance with the Chinese dragon, and American President Joe Biden began to focus on the policy of confinement and imposing a cordon so that Russia does not leave its geographical space, which made it feel threatened, dissatisfied and looking for change, as it is considered one of the revisionist international powers, and this An indication of the signs of a new, tripolar international order, To prevent this, the United States of America and the European Union worked to impose packages of sanctions on Russia and Russian figures, In return, the Russians insisted on moving forward to overthrow Kiev, threatening a third world war, and that the international system was witnessing a new cold war, which made