The Influence Of Russian Strategic Culture On Putin’s U.S. Policy

Strategic culture has important guiding significance for the formulation and implementation of a country’s foreign policy.It is a behavior mode based on its own history and reality adopted by decision-makers in a country’s strategic decision-making,so as to guide them to use military or non military means to achieve the country’s strategic objectives and maintain the country’s strategic interests and strategic security.Russia’s strategic culture has gone through thousands of years and has been formed under the influence of geographical factors,religious factors and historical factors.Its connotation includes paying attention to geopolitics,strong great power complex,both eastern and Western attributes,and obvious monk Wu spirit.Russia’s strategic culture is in the same strain and different from that of the past Russian periods.Such a strategic culture has had an impact on Russia’s policy towards the United States after the Ukrainian crisis.Russia-US relations are inherently fragile.Because of the historical legacy of the cold war,the development of bilateral relations is tortuous,and there are many factors of distrust and instability.Since the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis,this mistrust and instability has reached its peak,and bilateral relations have also fallen to the bottom.The US crackdown on Russia is comprehensive,including economic sanctions against Russia,sanctions against officials,military pressure and provocation.In the face of this series of actions of the United States,Russian President Vladimir Putin abandoned his past strategic patience and directly fought back against the United States.The intensity and time of confrontation are unprecedented.Putin’s counter attack policy against the United States is intended to maintain Russia’s great power status and Geopolitical Security,because this is determined by the historical relationship between Ukraine and Russia and Ukraine’s geopolitical relationship with Russia.Russian strategic culture has affected Putin’s policy objectives,implementation means and decision-maker Putin himself.Since the Ukrainian crisis influenced by Russia’s strategic culture,Putin’s policy towards the United States has had a certain impact on both Russia and the United States: for Russia,Russia’s domestic and international situation will be more difficult;It will encourage Russia to continue to give full play to the characteristics of "double headed eagle" and deepen its relations with Eastern countries;At the same time,it will also pay more attention to the construction of its own defense forces.For the United States,the United States will continue to exert hegemonism to put pressure on Russia and force Russia to yield;It will also continue to intensify its penetration into Russia’s Geopolitical Security Zone,so as to achieve the purpose of dividing and disintegrating Russia’s strategic security zone.In fact,the development of China Russia relations has brought: China and Russia should pay attention to each other’s core interests and major concerns,consult on an equal footing and jointly safeguard the achievements of bilateral cooperation;Looking at the essence through the phenomenon,find out the internal motivation of Russia’s foreign policy,and better guide China’s policy towards Russia;In addition,in the face of the conflict of interests between China and Russia,we can also find ways to solve the conflict according to the summarized laws and safeguard China’s national interests to the greatest extent.