Founder of ‘Eurasiaism’ justified by war… Putin’s expansionist foreign policy making
“Putin like the sun…Putin is absolute and irreplaceable”
‘Putin’s philosopher’ Alexander Dugin (60), who lost his daughter in a mysterious car explosion, has emerged as a target for assassination.
The New York Times (NYT), CNN and other American media reported that Dugin was a target because of this, calling him a far-right thinker and “planner” of the invasion of Ukraine.
The New York Times described Dugin as the founder of “Eurasianism,” which emphasized the revival of the Russian Empire and justified the invasion of Ukraine, and had a profound influence on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to war.
Dugin, who was initially an anti-communist dissident, advocated for Russia to become the center of the world against Western influence when the Soviet Union disintegrated in the 1990s.
This far-right nationalist ideology, which stayed on the margins, has emerged as the mainstream of Russian politics in recent years, and has finally come to be called ‘Putin’s Philosopher’.
President Putin also often expressed his sympathy for the Soviet Union’s past, which divided the world order during the Cold War to the extent that he even referred to the collapse of the Soviet Union as a ‘historical tragedy’ and ‘the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century’.
The New York Times pointed out that Dugin’s philosophy was reflected in President Putin’s declaration of war on February 24, when Russia invaded Ukraine, stating that he would liberate Ukraine, which had been leaning toward the US-led West.
CNN praised Dugin as the person who laid the spiritual foundation for the so-called ‘Russia World’, which sees Russia as the center of the Eurasian Empire that resists the corruption of the West, and as a maker of Putin’s expansionist foreign policy.
It is said that Dugin contributed to the cause of its strength by reviving the concept of ‘Novo Rossiya’ that Ukraine is part of Russia ahead of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
He did not hide his hatred of Ukrainians who refused to assimilate into Russia.
In May 2014, when dozens of pro-Russian demonstrators were killed in Odessa, Ukraine, they urged Ukrainians from all walks of life and the region to launch an all-out rebellion, saying, “Ukraine must either disappear from the earth or start over.” .
The United States put him on the list of sanctions in 2015 for being involved in Russia’s forced annexation of Crimea.
A far-right extremist on the margins, Dugin made a name for himself in his 1997 book, Foundations of Geopolitics, which laid out a vision for the Eurasian Empire from Dublin, Ireland to Vladivostok, Russia, in the Far East.
The book, which advocated for the spread of social and racial conflict and unrest in America, became a bestseller in Russia at the time.
John Dunlop, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute, said in 2004 that “no other book has had a greater impact on the Russian military, police and foreign policy makers than this one.”
Dugin also took the lead in expressing support for the Putin regime.
2007: “Putin has no more enemies.
“Even if there is, they are mentally ill and need to be tested,” he said, praising Putin.
In his 2007 work ‘Putin v Putin’, he analyzed that Putin possesses two qualities: a positive and cautious ‘moon-like’ attribute and a ‘sun-like’ attribute to revive the Eurasian Empire and engage in confrontation with the West. .
In March of this year, right after the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, local media praised Putin, saying, “Putin, like the sun, won, and it was already planned.”
“Russia has crossed the Rubicon, and I’m personally very happy with it,” he said.
Recently, a website called ‘Geopolitica’ is pouring out Russia’s far-right ideology and disinformation aimed at the West and the international community, CNN reported.
Just before her daughter died in the explosion, Dugin wrote on her Telegram channel, “If the entire Russian society does not have a wartime organizational system, we will not be able to win this war.” “Russia as a civilization must face the West .
That means we’re going to the end,” the New York Times reported.
Dugin’s daughter, Darya Dugina, 30, who has been working as a journalist and political critic, supported her father’s ideas and appeared on Russian state TV to prevent the invasion of Ukraine.
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