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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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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

It was discussed as a book that reflects Putin's thinking, particularly regarding his invasion of Ukraine, and was recommended reading for the Russian military. It detailed possibilities for Russia including invading Georgia, annexing Ukraine, and sowing discord in the US.

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

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It was discussed as a book that reflects Putin's thinking, particularly regarding his invasion of Ukraine, and was recommended reading for the Russian military. It detailed possibilities for Russia including invading Georgia, annexing Ukraine, and sowing discord in the US.

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

raised three distinct possibilities in 1997 that Russia should invade Georgia, it should annex Ukraine and should attempt to separate Britain from the rest of Europe and that the seeds of discord should be sown in the United States.

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 world in the other.

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