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Alexander Dugin is one intellectual I can think of, but the change he is talking about is not about changing Russian's current course, but rather paving the way
by slt2021 2y ago
Alexander Dugin is one intellectual I can think of, but the change he is talking about is not about changing Russian's current course, but rather paving the way forward given the current Russian regime's course.
American professor Mearsheimer has interesting interviews with Dugin discussing foreign policy and US-RU relations
- n4r9 2y agoI doubt those are the sorts of intellectuals meant in this context! Although interesting how Mearsheiner blames Eastern European countries' NATO membership for the Ukraine war, whilst Dugin has literally called for Russian expansion via conquest since the 90's.
- UltraSane 2y agoThe author of "Foundations of Geopolitics"? He has essentially engineered the current Russian geopolitical strategy. It is breathtakingly cynical and remarkably effective. Why can't Russia be as good at making their citizens wealthy, happy, and healthy as they are at manipulating politics in other countries and creating fake culture wars to divide and weaken their "enemies" which they seem to think is almost everyone.
- trilbyglens 2y agoBecause their culture is deeply broken and built on generational trauma.
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- UltraSane 2y agoThe trauma and warped values goes all the way back to the mongols.
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- slt2021 2y agoPeople in the Western world misunderstand Dugin's idea of Eurasianism. Dugin's critique is fair and has strong moral and historical ground. Eurasianism is mirror like response to Western led EU/NATO alliance. The problem with EU/NATO is Western countries have little to zero regard to the wellbeing of the Global South, and only pillage and drain resources (decades of American forever wars in Global South that only stole resources and caused deaths and refugees as an example) Eurasianism is the idea that global south should unite economically/militarily just like EU/NATO and look after each other, because neighbouring countries in Eurasia are landlocked and have strong incentive to cooperate and coexist peacefully. In fact it is influence from the US/EU/NATO that sows chaos and wars that destabilizes the global south. thats the idea: Eurasian states should cooperate with each other, and not be used as a battering ram against Russia (prime examples are Georgia and Ukraine, both had have healthy economic relations with Russia until 2008 when Bush G.W. decided to give NATO ascension and these countries were used by NATO as a disposable battering ram)
- petre 2y ago> The problem with EU/NATO is Western countries have little to zero regard to the wellbeing of the Global South, and only pillage and drain resources. Russia does exactly the same, look at what Wagner and its continuators are doing in Africa.
- UltraSane 2y agoWhy are you blathering about the "global south" when Russia is shooting very powerful missiles at hospitals in Ukraine?
- benterix 2y agoI'm sorry, what you say makes zero sense in the light of Russians killing Ukrainians, it's just plain old imperialism pure and simple.
- dragonwriter 2y ago> Why can’t Russia be as good at making their citizens wealthy, happy, and healthy as they are at manipulating politics in other countries and creating fake culture wars to divide and weaken their “enemies” which they seem to think is almost everyone. They could be, but, you know, priorities.