Last summer, NATO constantly supplied Ukraineequipment, which has drawn Ukraine into the conflict with Russia. France's Macron called this conflict a dose".Heart tonics”。Against this background, Putin believes that the conflict has allowed Russia to regain and consolidate its status as a superpower. So, by what exactly did Russia restore its position?
First of all, inEconomyIn addition, Russia has successfully resisted sanctions from the United States and Western countries, showing amazing resilience. This is despite the fact that Western countries had planned to drag Russia down through sanctionsEconomyAnd to subvert Putin's regime, but Russia has become more resilient. According to a number of European financial institutions**, Russia in 2024The rate of economic growthIt will be three times that of the entire eurozone. Along with the increase in oil and gas revenues, Russia'sEconomyThe situation is stable and continues to grow.
Secondly, inMilitaryaspects,The conflict in Ukrainestrengthened the Russian oneMilitaryStrength and status. With the United States and Western countries stopped on UkraineMilitaryAid, the Ukrainian regime is in jeopardy, and the Russian army takes the opportunity to launch a new ** trend. At the same time, Russia has increased its investment in the armed forces, completely negating the previous oneMilitaryReforms, which have reinvigorated the Russian army.
In addition, for:InternationalThe consolidation of its position, Russia, aware of the perceived threat by Western countries, paid more attention to manufacturing. The conflict in UkraineThe huge demand has given impetus to the development of Russian manufacturing, and Russia has truly recognized that its sheer size is a potential threat to Western countries.
However, we cannot prematurely assume that Russia has regained its superpower status, as this will take much longer to observe and verify. Perhaps, after the decline of the United States, Russia's superpower status will become more obvious.
The collapse of the Soviet UnionLater, Russia had hoped to join the "civilized world" of the West and maintain close relations with the United States. However, over time, Russia has come to see the West for what it really is and to recognize that its sheer size makes it a threat to the West.
Over the past few decades, Russia has tried to passMilitaryreform and reduce the size of the army to cope with its own".Militarybaggage". However, before the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia showed a certain decline in the face of the global hegemony of the United States and the rapidly developing China.
But when the United States and its Western allies imposed sanctions on Russia, forcing Russia to begin to pay attention to the development of the manufacturing sector and increase its effortsMilitaryBefore the investment of forces, Russia made up its mind to get rid of itMilitaryThe shackles of reform. This decision allowed Russia to regain its vitality as a vast empire.
From this series of changes, we can see that Russia is sober and aware of its own size advantage after recognizing the attitude of Western countries. Russia is inThe conflict in Ukrainemade them realize that as long as they remained large, they would be seen as a threat by Western countries. Therefore, Russia took the demand brought about by the war as an opportunity to pay attention to the development of manufacturing and strengthen itself by increasing investment in the armed forcesMilitaryStrength.
To sum up, Russia passedEconomywithMilitarygradually restored the status of a superpower. However, we will need to continue to monitor its future developments, especially whether Russia's superpower status can be more clearly confirmed in the competition with the United States.