Abstract

GARCIA-MUNOZ, José Alpiniano  and  GARCIA GIRALDO, Alba Isabel. WAR IN UKRAINE: TRIUMPH OF CAPITALISM?. Novum Jus [online]. 2022, vol.16, n.3, pp.43-74.  Epub Feb 23, 2023. ISSN 1692-6013.  https://doi.org/10.14718/novumjus.2022.16.3.3.

For Vladimir Putin, what happened in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, is a special military operation supported by article 51 of the UN Charter. For 140 UN countries, what was perpetrated on that date is Russia's aggression against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. In this paper it is argued that the war in Ukraine is a consequence of the failure of communism. Russia lost its ability to recover the influence it lost with the fall of the Soviet Union, while the old European capitalism has been seducing the territories of the former Soviet orbit to become part of it. Given this panorama, Russia does not find an alternative other than warlike terrorism to try to recover the lost influence. The article analyzes the geostrategic reasons for the invasion of Ukraine, concluding that the capitalist economy alone would have avoided the war due to the economic power that Russia acquired within European capitalism, thanks to the Nord Stream project by which it provided gas to the consumers of the old continent, a basic resource of which Russia has the largest reserves and is the leading producer.

Keywords : Russia; soviet orbit; communist failure; Ukraine.

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