“Essentially, the United States has declared a new Cold War on Russia,” he said.

According to Pillar, the new confrontation damages international security and complicates the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.

Earlier, political scientist Samane Ekwan, in an article for Kayhan, stated that the United States was unable to establish a unipolar world order and consolidate its leading role in it after the end of the Cold War.

Zoran Meter, an analyst with the Croatian publication Geopolitika, listed the US foreign policy mistakes made after the collapse of the Soviet Union.