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PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN WORLD POLITICS. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE DANGERS THAT ARE IN STORE FOR THE UNITED STATES WHICH ARE FRAUGHT WITH THE RISK THAT WE WILL DRIFT BACK INTO A COLD PEACE. THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT AMERICA AND RUSSIA HAVE INVESTED SO MUCH POLITICAL CAPITAL IN THEIR PARTNERSHIPS THAT TEMPORARY DIFFICULTIES CANNOT AND MUST NOT MAKE US DEVIATE FROM THE PATH OF COOPERATION.

"Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks moved in to seize the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin famously stood on a tank to address the crowd assembled. He then departed to Paris to muster international support and, if needed, to form a Russian government-in-exile. He participated in the negotiations at Brezhnev's former hunting lodge in Belazheva, Belarus where the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus agreed to secede from the Soviet Union and form a Commonwealth of Independent States. Kozyrev's pro-Western orientation made him an increasingly unpopular figure in Russia as Russia's spiraling economy and the emergence of ultra-wealthy oligarchs soured ordinary Russians on Western ideas of democracy and market capitalism. The Firebird takes the reader into the corridors of power to provide a startling eyewitness account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the struggle to create a democratic Russia in its place, and how the promise of a better future led to the tragic outcome that changed our world forever"--

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 consolidated the West which seeks to secure the Putin regime's strategic defeat in Ukraine. While refraining from a direct support of the Kremlin, China has demonstrated throughout this conflict a "pro-Russian neutrality" declaring a "no limits partnership" with Moscow which might result in a new bipolar confrontation between the West and the non-Western power centre with China and Russia on top of it. Being unable to directly confront the consolidated West, Beijing and Moscow have embarked on the path of a hybrid warfare strategy to modify America's hegemonic behaviour by shifting global normative narratives, delegitimising the US leadership in the eyes of the broader international community and gaining support among the countries of the Global South.

The recent deterioration of US–China and US–Russia relations has stumbled the formation of a better world order in the 21st century. Washington's concerns of the "great power realignment", as well as its Manichean battle against China's and Russia's "illiberal regimes" have resulted in the activated alliance-building efforts between Beijing and Moscow, prompting the Biden administration to consider some wedging strategies. Despite their coordinated preparation to deter the US power, the Chinese and Russian leaderships seek to avert a conflict with Washington by diplomatic means, and the characteristic of their partnership is still leaving a "window of opportunity" for the United States to lever against the establishment of a formal Sino–Russian alliance.