Putin's Ukraine Adventure Influenced By Dugin's Confused Ideology

Israeli journalist Amit Varzhisky says that to understand Russian President Vladimir Putin, an ethnic Tatar, analysts must get inside the head of Aleksandr Dugin, the architect of the annexation of Crimea and promoter of a confused, esoteric ideology that is anti-communist and anti-capitalist but champions a Russian empire extending from Dublin to Vladivostok and down to the Indian Ocean.

Photo Insert: Aleksandr Dugin, the architect of the annexation of Crimea

Writing for Haaretz, Varzhisky said for Dugin, the most influential thinker in Russia, the war in Ukraine is a historic moment that will usher in a new world order and it hews closely with his universal war to expel “the roots of evil, to abolish time as a destructive quality of reality, and in so doing fulfill some kind of secret, parallel, non-evident intention of the Deity itself."

Intelligence and espionage agencies around the world, leaders of states, diplomats, political commentators, and journalists are all trying to fathom Putin’s intentions and to understand the aim of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

But anyone who truly wants to get a handle on Putin’s worldview and the geopolitical vision that underlies his political and military moves in recent years, including the Ukraine campaign, would do best to listen to the words of Dugin, now better known as Putin’s Rasputin, and read his “The Fourth Political Theory.”

Dugin idolizes Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher who became the Nazi ideologue like Alfred Rosenberg (who was executed after the Nuremberg trials in 1946), and his critique of the failures of liberalism, capitalism, fascism, and communism has been tagged as sophomoric but it justifies the Slavic lebensraum and invasion of Ukraine.

Putin has to cloak his landgrab with puny narratives of Russia’s victimhood and the humiliation to arm him with a passionate desire to restore the cannibalized Russia to its former glory.

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