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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 41, March 2022

him with skills through which he was able to enter and NATO, to draw the features of the new
the labor market and life, as it equips its students international order, and that the general shape of the
with the knowledge and the ability to improve skills crisis shows us from his point of view that it is one
and abilities, as well as the ability to invest in oneself of the new Cold War conflicts between the Russian
and deal with everything systematically, and it and American powers. Since the fall of the Soviet
teaches its students the ability to become unique Union until now, America has been at the frontline of
from other students and The fact that the majority of the world order, and with the rise of Russia as a
remarkable scholars have graduated from the rising power again, with China near behind, America
institution, in addition to ministers and distinguished has felt threatened, as evidenced by the American
personalities who are members of this platform of national security strategy, whether under Trump or
Feps, provides evidence to how this place owes him Biden, which asserts that China and Russia are
a lot. Dr Ahmed indicated his gratitude to a number America's strategic adversaries and that these
of professors, headed by Prof. Dr. Abdul-Malik countries, from America's point of view, pose a
Odeh, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al-Rashidi, and Prof. Dr. threat establishing a multipolar world order and to
Muhammad Al-Sayed Salim "God's mercy be upon overthrow America's leadership, which in their
them" and Other personalities, such as Professor Dr. opinion was the cause of the destruction and
Ahmed Youssef, are still among us, and he devastation, as America intervened in the
recognizes that they were always distinctive in every international sovereignty of a multitude of countries
sense, that their connection with them was not only around the world, the Ukrainian crisis popped up as
academic, but also human, and that they always one of the areas of conflict, and the crisis here was
contained their students, and that he was grateful to utilized by everyone, as they took advantage of the
every professor who taught him during his college contradictions in Ukraine and the division between
years. eastern Ukraine, where the Donbass region, the
rebels who spoke Russian and are of Russian
ethnicity, and western Ukraine, which wants to
secede from Russia and join the EU and Nato and
therefore Ukraine has been used as an arena for the
strategic conflict between Russia and America,
where the Russians support the rebels in the Donbass
who want independence and separation from
Ukraine, and the West supports the Ukrainian
government and the Ukrainian Army, He believes
that the conflict has now been staged, despite the fact
that it began in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea,
and that it is now a proxy war between Russia and its
Then we went on to another issue, as the Russian- allies, who back the separatist republics of Donetsk
Ukrainian situation is unquestionably the talk of and Lugansk, and the West, led by NATO and the
the hour. We were curious as to how you, as United States who support the Ukrainian government
experts, saw this situation in terms of origins and and army, which attempted to abuse the situation and
repercussions. create a conflict with Russia when seeking Ukraine's
Dr Ahmed argues that this crisis is one of the new NATO membershipRussia did not remain silent
war arenas, that it is a part of the great conflict about this matter and considered it a threat to its
between America and its allies on the one hand, and national security, and all this was taking advantage
Russia and its allies on the other, that it is a proxy of the internal turmoil in Ukraine. Russia wanted to
war conflict, and that Ukraine is a card that has been show the countries of Europe and the world that it is
used by both parties, whether Russia or America and not Russia that lost the Cold War in the nineties.

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