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2022-03-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin's ‘Brain' Calls Russian War in Ukraine ‘Fight Against American Hegemony,' Warns World Will End if Russia Defeated
[Breitbart] Russia’s fight in Ukraine is aimed at America and “global liberal elites,” according to Russian ultra-right ideologue Alexander Dugin, who has been called everything from “Putin’s brain” to “Putin’s Rasputin,” as well as “the most dangerous philosopher in the world.” He also warned that a Russian defeat would spell the end of the world.

Prominent Russian philosopher, historian and sociologist Alexander Dugin claimed in an interview with Al-Jazeera on Saturday that Russia faces an existential threat and is thus posed to succeed in the current conflict.

“Russia is destined to win. We have no other choice,” he said. “This is an existential threat to us, so victory is our only choice.”

“After our victory, the world will not be the same as it is today,” he added.

When asked if the fight in Ukraine was ultimately aimed at the U.S., Dugin, whose Foundations of Geopolitics helped reshape the views of Russia’s political and military elite in the late 1990s and gave a new form to old prejudices against the Western nations by means of the “Eurasianist” ideology, replied in the affirmative.

“This is a fight against American hegemony, but not only the hegemony of the Americans,” he said, adding that the current confrontation is also directed against “the global liberal elites who are trying to take over the world.”

In particular, the anti-liberal philosopher claimed Russia is “fighting against the hegemonic totalitarian liberal system, and not against the U.S. as a country, or Europe, or Ukraine as a country.”

“It is a war against (those) principles,” he added. “It is a war of ideas.”

According to Dugin, had former President Donald Trump remained in power, the current scenario would never have unfolded.

“If Trump were still in power, all of this would not have happened,” he said. “He was realistic and refrained from exerting pressure on us. He did not care too much about Ukraine or the spread of NATO.”
Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-22 09:05|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Joe Biden Meets with Top CEOs: Global Catastrophes Present ‘Opportunities’ to Lead ‘New World Order’
Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-22 09:06||   2022-03-22 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes indeed. Led by China. Rotsa ruck, Prugs!
Posted by Don Vito B. Hayes6196 2022-03-22 09:12||   2022-03-22 09:12|| Front Page Top

#3 He's not wrong:

Russia is “fighting against the hegemonic totalitarian liberal system. It is a war against (those) principles. It is a war of ideas.” According to Dugin, had former President Donald Trump remained in power, the current scenario would never have unfolded. “If Trump were still in power, all of this would not have happened,” he said. “He was realistic and refrained from exerting pressure on us. He did not care too much about Ukraine or the spread of NATO.”
Posted by Gomez and Tenille5969 2022-03-22 09:31||   2022-03-22 09:31|| Front Page Top

#4 A small extremely corrupt Ukrainian government warring against a much larger, extremely corrupt Russian government.

Extremely corrupt plutocracies look on, hoping to salvage a post-conflict gain.

War is our business, and business appears to be very good.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-22 09:45||   2022-03-22 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5 hegemonic totalitarian liberal system

Pro tip: Next time buy better tires first.
Posted by Matt 2022-03-22 09:52||   2022-03-22 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Duhh. The most dangerous philosopher in the world sounds a pretty average thinker with working brain. Anybody on the street in any country except America could have told you this.
Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-22 09:56||   2022-03-22 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes, yes. Americans are the dumbest. That explains why it is America that's bogged down in Ukraine. Oh, wait...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-22 09:59||   2022-03-22 09:59|| Front Page Top

#8 If you listen to what Brandon says at Skidmark's link you will see that he is indeed pushing for a New World Order. Brandon says:

There’s gonna be a new world order out there, and we’ve gotta lead it. And we’ve gotta unite the rest of the world in doing it.

So, is the "we" of which he speaks America or, as Dugin asserts, "global liberal elites". Either way, it sounds a bit like John Lennon's Imagine.

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... You...

We know that Brandon doesn't care much for borders and we doubt that Putin ever cared much about John Lennon. IMHO, none of them can be trusted.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-22 12:53||   2022-03-22 12:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Imagine a New World Order ruled by faceless, nameless elites secluded in their exclusive enclaves who use puppets like Brandon to execute their vision for the rest of us. Once in a while you might hear about a gathering in places like Davos where they hash out their agenda for the coming year. Or maybe you don't hear about it because they control what you see and hear. How else could all the mainstream media outlets in the country be singing in such harmony about the need to Stand with Ukraine, a country about which most Americans know absolutely nothing and care even less?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-22 13:04||   2022-03-22 13:04|| Front Page Top

#10 No wonder they all hated Trump.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-22 13:07||   2022-03-22 13:07|| Front Page Top

#11 
I had a favourite Yes Man,
his name was Dum Dum Duugin.
Ever he thought I'd like to hear
he'd gush in tones hi-falutin'.

'Tis prophesied, he'd utter,
thick mustache aflutter,
that Rooshia will win
with all this well aimed shootin'!

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-22 13:11||   2022-03-22 13:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Who the funk is "Brandon"?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-22 13:29||   2022-03-22 13:29|| Front Page Top

#13 FJB.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-22 13:45||   2022-03-22 13:45|| Front Page Top

#14 too much credit to Davos, no one even looks at Allen and Co. meetings, where the CIA have been in attendance for the last 10 years
Posted by 746 2022-03-22 14:16||   2022-03-22 14:16|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ do the world a favor and give them the Yavoriv treatment.
Posted by Spinenter Grerenter6527 2022-03-22 14:36||   2022-03-22 14:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Fight Against American Hegemony? Nonsense, this is a fight to expand Russian territory and guarantee a warm water port before the Russian population drops to the point they can no longer bully people.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-03-22 17:45||   2022-03-22 17:45|| Front Page Top

#17 /\ Fight Against American Hegemony?

Yep, we conquered Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama, Honduras, and El Salvador. All currently beckons of democracy.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-22 17:55||   2022-03-22 17:55|| Front Page Top

#18 "beacons of democracy"
Yes. Like the one-party state & tinpot dictatorship of Ukrainia
Posted by Flugum and Company3402 2022-03-22 18:12||   2022-03-22 18:12|| Front Page Top

#19 I understand that the bacon of democracy is up to $8.99 for the 14 oz package...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-22 18:15||   2022-03-22 18:15|| Front Page Top

#20 Sacrifice! For democracy plutocracy and autocracy
Posted by Blackbeard Fillmore7608 2022-03-22 18:26||   2022-03-22 18:26|| Front Page Top

#21 #19 - Late Snark O' The Day entry
Posted by Frank G 2022-03-22 18:55||   2022-03-22 18:55|| Front Page Top

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