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"The American Empire Should Be Destroyed" Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology

James Heiser

Over two decades have passed since the “Cold War” between the Soviet Union and the West ended. Many citizens of the former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact nations have embraced the opportunities which come with expanded civil liberties and economic growth, but extremists exploit nostalgia for the d...

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It was mentioned as recommended reading for the Russian military and was discussed as a potential influence on Vladimir Putin's thinking on invading Ukraine, especially as it relates to a rejection of Western influence and the promotion of Russian autocracy.

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Dugin's most influential work, it's called 'The Foundations of Geopolitics'. It was written in the 1990s, it's recommended reading by the Russian military and which Putin is almost certainly familiar...

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It was mentioned as recommended reading for the Russian military and was discussed as a potential influence on Vladimir Putin's thinking on invading Ukraine, especially as it relates to a rejection of Western influence and the promotion of Russian autocracy.

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Dugin's most influential work, it's called 'The Foundations of Geopolitics'. It was written in the 1990s, it's recommended reading by the Russian military and which Putin is almost certainly familiar with.

This is not a war with Ukraine, this is a confrontation with globalism as a whole, planetary phenomenon, confrontation at all levels and ideologically, Russia rejects everything in globalism, monopolarity, Atlanticism on the one hand, liberalism, anti-tradition, technocracy, a great reset in the word in the other.

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