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The war between Russia and Ukraine has divided the world into two blocs, which base their support on their political ideologies. Indeed, Russia's war has led people in the West to feel increasing loyalty to both the United States and NATO and has led the wealthiest democracies in Latin America and Eastern Europe to adopt a pro-American stance (University of Cambridge, n.d).

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has generated much debate in America, not only about what how the U.S. should respond, but also about the extent to which the invasion represents a threat to democracy.

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Russia’s economy is main based on production. Its most exported products are cobalt, chrome, copper, gold, lead, manganese, nickel, platinum, tungsten, vanadium, and zinc (Britannica, w/d). Russia’s income also comes from oil and natural gas exports. In 2021 Russia made more trades with China, but usually its main trade partners are Germany, the United States, Belarus, Ukraine, and China. (Britannica w/d). Tourism is also a huge income for the country, since Some 20 million foreign visitors travel to Russia each year. (Britannica w/d)

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During the 21st century Russia and the USA were involved in war after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Following the invasion, Russia’s economy went down by 2.1% in 2022. The war is putting Russia’s economy under considerable damage and economic strain contributing to increasing inflation, and a tough job market due to the lack of available workers. (Lyngaas R, 2023) the United States imposed economic sanctions to make it harder for Russia to get high-tech components to use during war. On the other hand, the invasion of Ukraine has affected the economics all over the world, especially the post pandemic recovery.

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(Horobin, 2022)

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The war in Ukraine affected the USA economy in many ways. It caused energy prices to rise and made global markets uncertain. The war in Ukraine caused oil and gas prices to rise, impacting consumer and business investments, especially in the sectors depending on energy. Also, the sanctions imposed by the US and its allies added to economic challenges, disrupting trade and financial activities.

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According to a new poll by the independent Levada Center institute, 75 percent of Russians said in January that they supported the actions of Russian military forces in Ukraine. Russia's state-controlled media environment explains why Putin's or Ukraine's war approval rating can remain so high despite the country now being extremely marginalized in the international community and enduring the hardships of sanctions and war mobilization (Buchholz, 2023).

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(PEW RESERCH CENTER, 2022)

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(Levada Center Institute, 2023)

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The US is fighting with Russia for the artic. This is because they need to be prepared for what the future threats of the climate change has, and they´re not prepared enough, because they see Alaska as their main place to extract natural resources but it´s not the same as the artic. The main reason they don´t want to extract natural resources from the artic is because they dont want to risk a nuclear war in the artic. For the last 20 years, Russia has been the one who is caring and dominating this fight the most,

they´ve been developing more operations to extract more resources from the artic, so the US is not prepared.

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Russia has taken Ukraine because of the liberation of Donbas, the Ukrainian region which is next to Russia, but it hasn´t shown many advances to achieve that, instead, what they have taken is Crimea, the southern region of Ukraine. In this region, Russia has many pro-russians, and that´s why they wanted to take that region, to try and influence in their decisions. Because of this Ukraine is applying for membership of the NATO. NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and was formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the US. Its aim was to slow and block down the Soviet expansion. It now has 32 members, but the question is this, will Ukraine join the NATO?

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( BBC - 2024)

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There is currently a political tension that is growing day by day and this is due to several factors. To begin with, the United States is part of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) which is an international military alliance, Russia fears that NATO is encroaching on its area of political influence by accepting new members from Eastern Europe. The accession of ex-Soviet countries to NATO such as Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic has been seen as a direct threat to their security by Russia. This is the reason for the current Russia-Ukraine war, which is because Ukraine wanted to join NATO, but Russia completely disagreed with this and invaded Ukraine in order to have this country in its control and prevent NATO expansion. This war, which prevails to this day, is one of the reasons why there is a lot of tension between Russia and the United States, because the United States is one of the main suppliers of military weapons to Ukraine and despite the fact that they do not intervene directly in the war, it is still an important intervention. In addition, nuclear weapons are still a problem today, although neither country dares to drop any nuclear bomb because it would completely destroy the world and would be a global catastrophe, there is still a tension because you never know if either of them would be capable of launching it, and this is aggravated by the war in Ukraine

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Today there is no official declaration of this "cold war" between the United States and Russia, but it is very clear that there are significant tensions between these two countries, and many claim that it could be the beginning of a new cold war very similar to the one that existed more than 30 years ago. The past Cold War continues to have a significant impact today, although there was no direct military conflict between the two superpowers, the competition manifested itself mostly in the political aspect and it was due to the clash of ideologies (communist vs capitalist), which continues to clash between both countries today despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Both countries are the world representation of each ideology, the United States of capitalism and Russia of communism and this further increases the tension between the two powers.