“A holy war against the Antichrist and Satanism” represented by the “modern Western value system”: Alexander Dugin thus defined the Russian invasion of Ukraine, “a question of being or not being” that Russia will do everything to win, “even up to a nuclear collision”.
In the West it has earned the nickname ‘Putin’s Rasputin’, or even the ‘brain’ of the Tsar, because Dugin’s slogans are increasingly frequent in the speeches of the Kremlin leader. Starting with the concept of ‘New Russia’ to indicate the Ukrainian territories to be “liberated”, or the repeated references to Russian orthodoxy that the Tsar flaunts by having himself immortalized in church and presenting himself as a champion of Christianity and tradition.
And there is no shortage of sallies in Italy of the philosopher father of the ‘Fourth Political Theory’ (bypassing fascism, communism and liberalism) which in 2018 blessed the yellow-green government.
“Salvini won, who with his sweatshirts and T-shirts helped stop demonizing populism, and also the Five Stars. Together with them the people won, in this new fight against the elites to find their own identity “, he said then. However, the “great sympathy” for the Northern League leader, whom Dugin had interviewed in Moscow in 2016, did not last long.
“Its transformation in an atlantist and liberal sense is a shame, because it has lost the dimension of true populism”, commented Dugin a couple of years ago, disappointed by “the influence of the US liberal right on Salvini”. In one of the latest releases, the new Rasputin had indicated Giorgia Meloni as the new favorite, for her criticism of the anti-Covid measures and the distance “from the failed policies of the globalist and liberal Draghi”: “I have a presentiment, it will make its way”, the prophecy.
Dugin, 60, the son of a Soviet intelligence officer, came to the fore in the Russian news in the early 1990s, in full collapse of the USSR. At the time he wrote in the far-right daily Den, where in 1991 he published his manifesto: ‘The great war of the Continents’.
He theorizes that Russia is “an eternal Rome” which has the task of fighting the materialism and individualism of the West, “eternal Carthage” to be razed to the ground. Then he founded the National Bolshevik party, together with the rocker of Russian literature Eduard Limonov, a mix of fascist and communist ideological elements to overcome both. So much so that the organization’s flag was a hammer and sickle in a white circle on a red background, a sort of communist swastika.
In 1997 his ‘The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia’ became a bestseller, so popular that it was also sold in supermarkets. He indicates, opening the way to the engineers of chaos, the tools to destabilize the West, the United States in the lead: disinformation and soft power. “Eurasia and the heart of Russia remain the scene of a new revolution. The new Eurasian empire will be built on the basis of the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, of American strategic control, the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us “, he wrote.
In 2002, two years after Putin’s rise to the Kremlin, he christened the birth of the ‘Eurasia’ party, which attracts many members of the new tsar’s entourage. In 2014 he was at the forefront of supporting the pro-Russian Donbass separatists, but his incendiary claims were deemed excessive at the time, especially when he appealed to the “massacre” of Ukrainians, and cost him a prestigious role at Moscow State University. from which he is thrown out. Nonetheless, Dugin becomes a regular guest on TV talk shows, proof according to many of the wide acceptance he enjoys on the upper floors of the Kremlin.
Source: Ansa
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