By Aleksandr Dugin
Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin is a extremely revered political thinker, analyst, and strategist in Russia whose repute within the West is being questioned by legacy media by way of focused propaganda.
Due to his philosophical closeness to Vladimir Putin, his daughter Darya Dugina was murdered just a few weeks in the past by a Ukrainian particular agent who in flip obtained killed later in revenge as effectively.
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Listed below are Dugin’s ideas on the current state of affairs in Russia and past.
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For Moscow, this can be a mortal battle – however just for the necessities to turn into an empire.
For us, due to this fact, every part is at stake. Then again, the Sea (West) wouldn’t endure a lot even when it have been to lose all of Ukraine.
We’ve been preventing for eight months, spilling rivers of blood, dropping many lives, together with harmless ones, breaking all ties and agreements, taking dangers, advancing, retreating, putting, and taking blows.
And already terrorist assaults on Russian territory have turn into the norm, and every new assault is getting nastier and harsher, and everybody has the unusual feeling that we’re ready for one thing.
A sort of crimson line… Every little thing that may very well be crossed has been crossed.
Within the present state of affairs, it’s neither attainable to give up nor to barter. Both we are going to win, and victory might be complete, or we are going to lose, after which we won’t even be allowed to open our mouths.
We aren’t ready for something. There’s nothing to attend for.
We should be a part of the battle and go to the entrance; those that aren’t with us are in opposition to us, the entrance isn’t solely exterior the western borders of the Motherland, but it surely runs inside Russia.
It’s now in every single place, and if somebody appears to be like like a traitor and acts like a traitor, they’re more than likely a traitor.
There is no such thing as a want to attend any longer.
Every little thing relies on us, on every one among us. Energy alone, with out the individuals, with out society, in a purely technical, surgically exact, and speedy method, because it appears to have been deliberate at first, has not been capable of win this battle.
whether it is now our battle, the authorities even have obligations earlier than the individuals and society.
Methods should be formulated clearly and unemotionally.
Then every part will go because it ought to, and nobody will wait any longer. One doesn’t wait on the entrance; one fights on the entrance.
In a individuals’s battle, the individuals are the ability. The state ‘is’ us.
The federal government’s at the start obligation to the individuals is to win the battle. Sure, altogether, however to win.
If there are not any sources, let’s create them collectively, discover them, and pull them out of the bottom.
If there are incompetent idiots on the prime, let’s look downstairs, two-story, three-story; let’s flip to those that have been sidelined, silenced, ignored, and feared for varied causes.
That is clearly the place the answer lies.
If individuals are patriotic and wanting to take part in Victory, sparing nothing, then allow them to attempt; in the event that they fail we are going to take others.
We’ve an excellent nation, however we should open the doorways resulting in victory and glory and mercilessly weed out these connected to their place.
It’s essential to cease the method of rotation of elites in important situations for the nation; when one decides to be or to not be, it’s in itself a betrayal.
There are not any crimson strains; we’re on the opposite facet.
The enemy’s assaults will proceed in all instructions: the battle has been occurring for a very long time inside Russia and may attain everybody.
Outdoors Russia, the demonic scum will assault and tear each Russian aside, with out listening to their excuses.
The individuals’s battle begins when a lethal menace looms over all the nation and the a part of it that doesn’t contemplate itself a individuals or has by no means considered it, and this half is now a goal.
The entrance is right here, now.
On occasion, we have to name a spade a spade. The unstated and half-truths produce labyrinths of ambiguity, which in flip create whirlpools and turbulent currents during which reality disperses, and dissolves.
Transferring within the wake of the conjuncture, phrases and discourses degenerate irreversibly. Finally, nobody believes anybody anymore, and every part comes crashing down.
We’re shut so far, so we should have the braveness to make issues clear.
The restrict is the undermining of the Crimean bridge.
Then there’s the reality – as arduous as it could be – and the arduous highway to salvation and victory. Or… And this you may guess for your self, I don’t wish to scare anybody – everyone seems to be, I feel, sufficiently conscious of the gravity of our state of affairs.
There’s worldwide regulation, and there’s geopolitics. Worldwide regulation describes how issues ought to look; geopolitics describes how issues are.
There’s at all times a spot between ‘being’ and ‘seeming’.
Geopolitically talking, in 1991 Russia suffered a colossal defeat within the battle of Land versus Sea (Heartland versus Rimland, based on the classes of classical geopolitics, Ed.).
We surrendered, threw down the white flag, and known as it Yeltsin (the Yeltsin Centre is identical factor, a monument to defeat and betrayal).
Furthermore, we accepted the ‘reality’ of the enemy, its worth system, its norms, its guidelines, parliamentarianism, liberal democracy, the ideology of individualism, hedonism, and luxury, the market.
Thus the Russian Federation was born, as a vassal of the West, and Moscow was pressured to acknowledge the independence of its former territories, the republics, which gained their independence from us and mechanically grew to become depending on the West.
The place the Land goes, the Sea comes. That’s the regulation. Three of the Baltic territories have been instantly included in NATO; the others fell into line.
Internationally, this was mirrored within the Russian Federation’s recognition of the independence of the previous elements of Higher Russia, but it surely was solely a mirrored image of geopolitical realities.
Motherland had misplaced and was pressured to acknowledge the need of the victorious Sea.
We have been additional ‘pressured’ to provide away Chechnya, the North Caucasus, the Volga area, the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East.
‘Take all of the sovereignty you need,’ it learn.
On the finish of 1993, Yeltsin all of a sudden realized and determined that he was now not ‘pressured’.
Thus started the primary Chechen marketing campaign. It was a horrible, shameful, monstrous marketing campaign, however… it was the primary signal that there was one thing in Russia that resisted its full occupation by the Sea.
The liberals have been on the facet of the separatists.
Our reformers noticed themselves as a colonial administration, the gauleiter of subjugated areas in a geopolitical battle. The Russian Federation was conceived as a colonial entity with minimal sovereignty, and this sovereignty was to turn into much less and fewer.
The post-Soviet house, and within the plans of Western strategists the post-Russian house, was to regularly come underneath the direct management of NATO, and the fifth column of liberals ruling in Moscow on the time was to facilitate this course of in any method attainable.
This included sabotaging the primary Chechen marketing campaign.
This culminated within the Khasavyurt peace course of and the consolidation of the oligarchs round Yeltsin, who had fully misplaced the individuals’s belief and skill to control.
Common Lebed is the prime instance of a high-ranking Russian army officer who betrayed the state and went into the enemy’s service.
All of it ended within the late Nineteen Nineties when the Western-controlled Wahhabis invaded Moscow and Dagestan and directed terror (assaults, sabotage, raids).
Russia’s ‘forcing’ in direction of additional disintegration continued. The state of affairs grew to become important, as it’s now, certainly extra so than then.
Then got here the Putin period, which was a radical change, at the start in geopolitics. The Earth refused to disintegrate and started a determined wrestle to regain sovereignty.
That is the second Chechen marketing campaign, very troublesome, however victorious.
It solid the phenomenon of Kadyrov and the ability of the Mainland, Eurasia, and Hartland, which defended itself in opposition to the assault of the Sea.
Putin is now on the highway to geopolitical reconquest; that is his mission.
Putin is Eurasia returning to its subjectivity. And nothing else. Every little thing else is non-Putin.
On the stage of worldwide regulation, Russia’s rise from its knees has already been compressed right into a framework of recognition of the independence of the nations of the previous USSR, and this type of ‘coercion’ has been secured by the geopolitical potential of NATO.
In a speech in Munich in 2007, Putin challenged this establishment within the geopolitical steadiness on a theoretical stage.
In 2008, in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia challenged the post-Soviet establishment in follow.
That’s, the strengthening of our geopolitical sovereignty led us to dare to vary the post-Soviet borders. Geopolitics got here into play, compressing worldwide regulation.
Then got here Maidan, the reunification of Crimea, and the Donbas insurrection.
Maidan grew to become the Sea’s gesture of assault, whereas Crimea and Donbas grew to become the Earth’s response. As soon as once more, we have now restructured worldwide regulation to suit geopolitics.
Worldwide regulation accommodates an ambiguous clause in regards to the precedence of the territorial integrity of nation-states and on the similar time the fitting of peoples to self-determination.
In follow, it at all times leads to a geopolitical steadiness of energy between Land and Sea.
The Heartland insists that South Ossetia and Abkhazia are unbiased, whereas Crimea, at this time’s Donetsk and Lugansk Republics, Kherson, and Zaporizhia are ours.
Sea insists Yugoslavia isn’t any extra and Kosovo is ‘unbiased’. Solely pressure. Solely geopolitics.
And worldwide regulation adapts put up factum to what emerges in geopolitical follow. Geopolitics is the bare reality, whereas worldwide regulation is a superstructure, a go well with, a body.
Now contemplate the SMO (Russian particular army operation): it was initiated as a result of the nation determined to take an extra step to revive its place within the steadiness of energy.
Moscow’s conduct within the Putin period, and thus within the interval of restoring geopolitical sovereignty, has not been very in keeping with worldwide regulation, which established the existence of nation-states within the post-Soviet house.
The distinction is that Russia underneath Yeltsin was semi-colonial, whereas underneath Putin it has taken the highway to true independence.
Nevertheless, the Yeltsin Centre exists, as does Moscow’s formal recognition of Ukraine as a ‘nation-state’.
There are additionally liberal reformers in Russia itself, as continuity and whilst a compromise between betrayal and loyalty.
This ambivalence led to 2014.
Stopping our eastward motion in Ukraine and making an attempt to accept Crimea was a mistake. That is now apparent to everybody.
Why preserve mendacity in regards to the ‘crafty plan’?
There was none, however the connection to Yeltsin’s middle, the attachment to the Nineteen Nineties, the West, globalism, and the ocean was accountable for this deadly mistake.
We’re again to the identical level, solely in a a lot worse beginning place, which might have been solved by the success of the SMO in its first section, however this didn’t occur.
From a geopolitical viewpoint, Russia can not even permit the very existence of Ukraine because the bridgehead of the Atlantic, Sea, and Western Terrorist Organisations.
All geopoliticians – from the founding father of this science, Mackinder, the previous Entente Commissioner for Ukraine, and Zbigniew Brzezinski to our Eurasians and the fashionable Russian college of geopolitics – have understood this very effectively.
Russia is a topic, an empire, an unbiased geopolitical pressure solely along with Ukraine (not less than along with Novorossia).
That is… the regulation. Mackinder and Brzezinski have concluded that the West should get Ukraine out from underneath Russia’s ft in any respect prices.
Russian geopoliticians have come to the precise reverse conclusion: Ukraine and Russia (in addition to different elements of Higher Russia, the post-Soviet house) should stand with Russia or not less than be impartial.
Direct hostility and management over them by the Sea is dominated out, and no worldwide regulation is an impediment right here. If we’re certainly Russia, then there needs to be no anti-Russia alongside our borders.
In different phrases: the Belovezh Accords (Minsk agreements) as a signature of our loss solely exist so long as Russia stays underneath the Western rule, weak and mainly occupied, led by a colonial elite.
If Russia is actually sovereign, it’s the just one that needs to be so in all the post-Soviet house.
That is what the SMO is all about.
When diplomacy, economics, and worldwide treaties start, all this now not issues. Solely geopolitics stays. Solely victory, in any respect ranges and on all fronts.
That is the primary time that Russia intends to assessment the geopolitical outcomes of the Chilly Warfare on a big scale.
It implies that Russia has determined – it has already determined, we’re speaking in regards to the current previous and the current, not simply the long run – to vary the unipolar world order and enter into direct battle with the Sea Civilisation, with its Anglo-Saxon core.
It’s a mortal battle for Moscow – however just for the necessities to turn into an empire.
For us, due to this fact, every part is at stake. Then again, the Sea wouldn’t endure a lot even when it misplaced all of Ukraine.
There’ll nonetheless be some ways during which the West will attempt to stifle it with sanctions, commerce restrictions, and technological hunger.
However for us, the weak point of the SMO is just deadly.
It’s unattainable, nor crucial, to elucidate to anybody that we have been pressured to provoke it and that we have been guided solely by humanitarian concerns. That is rhetoric. We’ve staked every part on the actual sovereignty of civilization.
It’s, due to this fact, crucial to appreciate this. Russia has determined to vary the world order and now all the society should be rapidly rebuilt in a brand new Eurasian and patriotic method.
It issues the ability buildings, the place clearly many issues collected throughout the semi-colonial period.
Partially, there’s actual sabotage – the skillful promotion to key positions of blatantly inept figures, the marginalization of deserving and robust leaders, the deliberate immersion in numerous technical particulars, and, lastly, outright corruption – successfully legalized by capitalism and the ‘Yeltsin Centre’ period.
We see this within the conduct of Voentorg throughout the partial mobilization and in every single place else.
The primary drawback at this time is our power potential, the roots of which lie in society, the absence of ideology, the snug and decadent life-style, and the truth imposed on us after the defeat and capitulation of the Nineteen Nineties.
We’re reaping the fruits of a paradigmatic psychological occupation of Russia.
Putin has already given the tip sign, however to whom has he given it?
If not the direct influencers, then the merchandise of this long-term sabotage – the spoiled, corrupt, cynical, and sometimes merely incompetent and intellectually inferior (in caring for their very own bellies, nevertheless, they’re fairly full) representatives of the elite that developed within the black Nineteen Nineties.
And this garbage is designed to make sure Russia’s victory in probably the most troublesome confrontation with a monstrous enemy, resolute, technically outfitted, and maniacally satisfied of its rightness…
That is definitely not in regards to the Ukrainians, who’re zombified victims among the many Jap Slavs, and who’re our brothers.
It’s in regards to the West, in regards to the Sea civilization, in regards to the plans of the globalist elites to show world domination right into a triumph of Devil’s civilization, and they’re decided to do it.
Look what fashionable Western gender and post-humanist tradition and philosophy have become, a veritable direct chanting of hell.
In Russia itself, a second of radical, speedy, and pressing change has arrived.
A second when the phrases ‘brothers and sisters’ somewhat than ‘expensive Russians’ come from the guts.
“All for the entrance and all for victory” somewhat than the pathetic babbling of officers making an attempt to unite the inseparable.
The sacred battle of all the nation not for all times however dying, and the foundations of worldwide regulation that nobody respects.
To interrupt by way of the fronts, we should battle arduous inside. The period of half-measures and compromises is over, and our battle has each likelihood of being, this time, the final.
Translation by Lorenzo Maria Pacini
This put up is mirrored and was revealed first in Russia.
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