Originally posted April 7, 2014. Alexander Dugin has Vladimir Putin’s ear. Dugin is perhaps Russia’s biggest promoter of Eurasianism, a philosophy that is powerfully expansionist. Dugin sees Russia much bigger than it is today and is a champion of expanding further in the Ukraine. Dugin’s philosophy is anti-Western, anti-liberal, and totalitarian in nature. Alexander Dugin’s […]
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Putin Advisor Alexander Dugin: Anti-American, Anti-European and Powerfully Expansionist
Originally posted April 14, 2014. Alexander Dugin’s neo-Eurasianism conceives of a Eurasian state that would incorporate all the former Soviet states and would go so far as to establish a protectorate over all EU members. For Dugin, the enemy is the United States. Alexander Dugin also would have Vladimir Putin push into the east and […]
Who Is “The Surgeon” Alexander Zaldostanov?
Originally posted October 20, 2015. And who are the Night Wolves? Zaldostanov is the leader of the Russian nationalist biker gang known as the Night Wolves. The 5,000-some-member gang conducts stridently nationalistic rallies loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zaldostanov views his gang as holy warriors and travels widely extolling Russian greatness and warning of […]
The USA is Chimerical
In The Fourth Political Theory by Russian political commentator and writer Alexander Dugin, chapter 14 is sub titled The Evil of Unipolarity. “All traditionalists should be against the West and globalization, as well as against the imperialist politics of the United States.” Alexander Dugin’s nationalistic, classical Eurasian view is that a Russian-Eurasian state must incorporate […]
Changing the Face of Europe Forever? Part I
Originally posted November 10, 2015. Pat Buchanan alerts readers to the warning of Hungarian President Victor Orban: “A modern day mass migration is taking place … that could change the face of Europe’s civilization. … If that happens that is …irreversible. … There is no way back from a multicultural Europe. … If we make […]
Descent into Chaos, Part II
Originally posted August 26, 2015. In his chapter “Global Revolution, The Manifesto of the Revolutionary Alliance,” Alexander Dugin, Russian writer, political commentator and advisor to Vladimir Putin, lays out his frightening and threatening view of the future. (The) oligarchy has devalued not only labor, but also the capital connected to the market fundamentals, which has […]
Descent into Chaos, Part I
Originally posted August 20, 2015. For over a decade, Alexander Dugin has been an adviser to Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin on geopolitical matters. Dugin is one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post Soviet Russia, having been active in politics there since the 1980’s. According to Dugin, the 21st century will be […]
Putin’s Objective in Syria
Vladimir Putin intends to secure Russia’s Mediterranean naval facility in Tartus, Syria. Putin recognizes that his natural allies are the Assad regime the Iranians (Shia) and the Shia militias (like Hezbollah). Putin can rely on these groups to fight on the ground to help extinguish ISIS and potentially save the Alawites in the process. He […]
Donald Trump Opposes Free Trade?
What Trump correctly opposes are free trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The National Interest notes this while adding that Trump favors draconian punishments for illegal immigrants, says it’s time to get tough with China and Japan on trade, supports a strong U.S. military, claims to have opposed the 2003 Iraq intervention, declares that the […]
Putin Indicts U.S. Foreign Policy
Vladimir Putin took to the floor of the U.N. for an address on a U.S. foreign policy that, as Pat Buchanan notes, “has produced a series of disasters in the Middle East that we did not need the Russian leader to describe for us.” From Putin: “An aggressive foreign interference has resulted in a brazen […]
