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I do wonder if the significance of the Dugin mythology is overstated. He makes for good Rasputin drama, but the whole thing is a bit too lurid.
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We’ve all seen Putin’s bizarre references to the ‘de-nazification’ of Ukraine govt. A couple of days ago, in response, I tweeted ‘De-nazification begins at home’. But this wasn’t just empty 'back atcha' rhetoric. It’s time we talked about Putin advisor Aleksandr Dugin. 1/22
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I suspect he’s just a more scholarly version of Bannon or Cummings. A useful idiot for Putin. Since Putin is more complex and capable than either Trump or BoJo, and selling a more complex line, he needs a more complex and capable ideological stooge
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the book was memed hard on reddit some years ago (“loook at this MYSTERIOUS BOOK that describes the SECRET STRATEGY…”) which is points against it but now I’ve seen dual defenses of “it’s trivially obvious” and “he’s fringe” which are contradictory enough to look like disinfo
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