As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues, the U.S. and its NATO allies are fueling the tension by supplying weapons to Ukraine, aiming to establish a unipolar global order under their hegemony, according to an Italian scholar. Vincenzo Costa, a philosophy professor at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, said that the core cause of the conflict is NATO's eastward expansion and that the U.S., the main driver behind the crisis, has been providing Ukraine with weapons and military training since 2014.