alexander-dugin-author-putin-deady-playbook

Thank you my friend PO1 Tony Holland for posting the perspective from washingtonpost.com editorial written by David Von Drehle. Alexander Dugin author of Putin deadly playbook.
I decided to some research on Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin who was born in 1962 and earlier notable Russian fascists including "Konstantin Rodzaevsky General Vladimir Kosmin leader of the Russian Fascist Party, which he led in exile from Manchuria following the Russian Bolshevik revolution and wars.
To be honest I think Vladimir Putin has been most influenced by Russian religious and Russian fascist political philosopher Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin

What does Putin want ? | Ivan Ilyin | Political Theories
Who does Putin follow? What Ideology runs Russia ? Ivan Ilyin was a Russian religious and political philosopher, white émigré jourrnalist and an ideologue of the Russian All-Military Union.
Ivan Ilyin argued that Russia should not be judged by the Communist danger it represented at that time but looked forward to a future in which it would liberate itself with the help of Christian Fascism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B59ZZWsdeGU

Excerpts from {[souloftheeast.org/tag/ivan-ilyin]]
As expressed in this 1928 essay, Russia’s philosopher of national renewal Ivan Aleksandrovich Ilyin (1883-1954) understood well the nature of power and authority. Power, he saw, descended from God and due to the great weight of its responsibility shared close proximity with the other world, with death. A traditional elite responsible for defending its people and their well-being would be imbued with faith and martial virtue, for each of them would answer to the Dread Judge at the end of time. Translated by Mark Hackard.

To doubt whether Russia shall draw forth from her depths a religious, vigorous and state-cultivating intelligentsia would mean to doubt Russia herself and her future. She can and she shall. And Russia herself will be reborn, will strengthen and grow. But the sooner this is done, the better; the quicker shall come her restoration; the less blood, suffering, hazards and dishonor there shall be. And the first thing the new Russian intelligentsia must understand and ponder is this: the volitional nature of the state and sovereign authority.
State power, in its most essential idea, should belong to the strongest and the most noble. For he who takes it accepts and exercises it with will and namely with noble will; he stands at the helm and on guard – at the head of the people and guarding the sacred. And therefore he should prepare his will not only for leadership and coercion, but for the honorable death of a guardian and a leader.
Living in the state and building it, men are united not simply by territory or common subordination; they are united in a concerted, willed effort and willed action; they unite to set forth and recognize those most noble leaders and those strong and loyal guardians, who are called to create for them, for their sake and through them, the cause of popular unity and flourishing – those who are called to support and defend this unity and uphold what is sacred to the nation even at the cost of their death. Therefore state power by its essence presents us this drama: the struggle and death of the best men for the existence and holiness of their people. And this drama, most clearly expressed in the face of the warrior or the soldier, makes each citizen participating in authority a warrior standing his post, a guardian ready for death.
We must understand and ponder this once and for all: he who assumes power takes on not only authority and not so much authority as he does the duty to rule. He thereby accepts not only higher rank and honor, but higher responsibility and danger. And he who seeks status and desires honor – but does not want responsibility and fears danger – such a man is ambitious without the capability for authority. His reign can only lead to general destruction.
To be near power is to be near death. And how many of the best men in history – Tsars, leaders, great captains and heroes – have proven witness to this by their own ends! I said that sovereign authority should belong to the strongest and the most noble.
To the strongest: I speak, of course, not of muscles, not of weapons or a rallied mass of men. I speak of will. For authority is a matter of will. The vocation of authority is not only to see and understand; for this there are men of experience, men of intellect, men of science and men of knowledge. The vocation of authority is to select, decide, direct, persist and compel. This is its cause, its nature, its purpose."




Excerpts from {[https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2022/02/24/alt-right-and-identitarian-links-to-aleksandr-dugin-tldr-version/]}
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that:
1. Aleksandr Dugin is a satanic freak and almost certainly a spook (GRU/KGB agent).
2. The main nationalist coalition in the West, consisting of the Alt-Right, New Right, and Identitarian Movement, has direct links to Aleksandr Dugin, and thus “Russian” foreign intelligence (which works on behalf of the same rootless globalist oligarchs as Western intelligence agencies).
Please bear in mind that the evidence contained in this article is by no means exhaustive.
If you want to find more, you can easily uncover it. Dugin has been publishing nonsense online for decades.



Background from {[washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/22/alexander-dugin-author-putin-deady-playbook/]]
"On the eve of his murderous invasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a long and rambling discourse denying the existence of Ukraine and Ukrainians, a speech many Western analysts found strange and untethered. Strange, yes. Untethered, no. The analysis came directly from the works of a fascist prophet of maximal Russian empire named Aleksandr Dugin.
Dugin’s intellectual influence over the Russian leader is well known to close students of the post-Soviet period, among whom Dugin, 60, is sometimes referred to as “Putin’s brain.” His work is also familiar to Europe’s “new right,” of which Dugin has been a leading figure for nearly three decades, and to America’s “alt-right.” Indeed, the Russian-born former wife of the white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, Nina Kouprianova, has translated some of Dugin’s work into English.
But as the world watches with horror and disgust the indiscriminate bombing of Ukraine, a broader understanding is needed of Dugin’s deadly ideas. Russia has been running his playbook for the past 20 years, and it has brought us here, to the brink of another world war.A product of late-period Soviet decline, Dugin belongs to the long, dismal line of political theorists who invent a strong and glorious past — infused with mysticism and obedient to authority — to explain a failed present. The future lies in reclaiming this past from the liberal, commercial, cosmopolitan present (often represented by the Jewish people). Such thinkers had a heyday a century ago, in the European wreckage of World War I: Julius Evola, the mad monk of Italian fascism; Charles Maurras, the reactionary French nationalist; Charles Coughlin, the American radio ranter; and even the author of a German book called “Mein Kampf.”
Dugin tells essentially the same story from a Russian point of view. Before modernity ruined everything, a spiritually motivated Russian people promised to unite Europe and Asia into one great empire, appropriately ruled by ethnic Russians. Alas, a competing sea-based empire of corrupt, money-grubbing individualists, led by the United States and Britain, thwarted Russia’s destiny and brought “Eurasia” — his term for the future Russian empire — low.
In his magnum opus, “The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia,” published in 1997, Dugin mapped out the game plan in detail. Russian agents should foment racial, religious and sectional divisions within the United States while promoting the United States’ isolationist factions. (Sound familiar?) In Great Britain, the psy-ops effort should focus on exacerbating historic rifts with Continental Europe and separatist movements in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Western Europe, meanwhile, should be drawn in Russia’s direction by the lure of natural resources: oil, gas and food. NATO would collapse from within.
Putin has followed that counsel to the letter, and he must have felt things were going well when he saw window-smashing rioters in the corridors of the U.S. Congress, Britain’s Brexit from the European Union and Germany’s growing dependence on Russian natural gas. With the undermining of the West going so well, Putin has turned to the pages of Dugin’s text in which he declared: “Ukraine as an independent state with certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia,” and “without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics.”
So what comes next, should Putin manage to “resolve” Russia’s “problem” in Ukraine? Dugin envisions a gradual dividing of Europe into zones of German and Russian influence, with Russia very much in charge thanks to its eventual stranglehold over Germany’s resource needs. As Great Britain crumbles and Russia picks up the pieces, the empire of Eurasia will ultimately stretch, in Dugin’s words, “from Dublin to Vladisvostok.”
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Seems Putin is definitely following this ‘playbook’ as evidenced by the destruction in Ukraine and the division within the US PO1 Tony Holland

Thank You for sharing this with us!!!