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If you want a long but clear image of the Russian geopolitical chess game, read "The Fourth Political Theory". Putin loves this book. https://en.wikipedia.org/
by jchook 7y ago
If you want a long but clear image of the Russian geopolitical chess game, read "The Fourth Political Theory". Putin loves this book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Political_Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Political_Theory
- pizza 7y agoJust out of curiosity (not judging), what concrete observation makes you say Putin supports Duginism, as opposed to, say, Dugin said some things years ago that just now coincide with some recent news?
- jchook 7y agoI learned about it via a political science professor at the University of Virginia. Even the Wikipedia on Dugin's older book says, "The book has had a large influence within the Russian military, police, and foreign policy elites[1] and it has been used as a textbook in the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian military.[1][2]" The correlation between suggestions in the Fourth Political Theory book align a little too perfectly with recent events: - Break GB from the EU [2] - Heightened racial tension in the US [3] - Annexation of Crimea and Ukraine - etc. Hard to ignore how much Russia operates "by the book". Also in the Wikipedia for FPT I linked earlier, "The book has been cited as an inspiration for Russian policy in events such as the War in Donbass..." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_Brexit_referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...