[vc_column_textWe reproduce the premise of the first excerpt of The Russian Project for the United States : Putin’s inspirational source is called Aleksander Dugin, nicknamed ‘Putin’s Rasputin’, is an advisor to the Duma and the president of Russia.
he was also the founder and member of the National Bolshevik Party (*), the National Bolshevik Front and the Eurasia Party. Emblematic is the slogan he coined: ‘Russia is everything, the rest is nothing! “..
The term ‘Eurasia’ sounds familiar, because it is found in Orwell’s ‘1984’.
And here it becomes more disturbing because of the suggestion it evokes. Eurasia, in fact, according to the Orwellian account in the novel 1984, is one of the three continental superpowers born after the hypothetical atomic war of the 1950s invented by George Orwell. The form of government hypothesised by the great British writer is neo-Bolshevism, born from the ashes of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
For Dugin, therefore, this dystopian novel is not a warning: it is a model to aspire to. As an old Soviet philosopher, Dugin is anti-capitalist, anti-liberal, anti-democracy, pro-dictatorship. For Dugin it is Stalin rather than Lenin, the great ideological hero.
Like Putin, Dugin also believes that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was a disaster.Dugin in his writings proposes the re-establishment of the Soviet-era empire by force.
In 2008, when Putin invaded Georgia in the same manner as he invaded Ukraine, Dugin urged him to attack Ukraine…
Alexander Dugin conceives of Russia as the ruler of Europe but also of Asia and particularly of Iran, from which Russia obtains armaments (rocket launchers, for example).
She studied classical literature, spent four years in the USSR from 1973 to 1978, graduated in Russian and taught history of the USSR and international relations at the Sorbonne in Paris.
The first excerpt can be found here.
“… For years, Putin has dreamed of undermining dollar hegemony, a goal as important to him as the destruction of NATO. Trump’s protectionist hobby, vigorously promoted in the Kremlin under the slogan ‘national interests first’, is the best way to achieve this goal.
“What the Wall Street Journal called ‘the dumbest trade war in history’ with Canada and Mexico threatens to blow up vast swathes of the economy, eliminate thousands of jobs, and jeopardise US security, ” writes historian Ian Gardner, who asks : ” Why would a president who promises a ‘golden age’ inaugurate his reign by first igniting a series of fires, social and political, that seem to undermine every foundation of American economic, diplomatic, and cultural power?” “ Moreover, Trump has created a reserve fund for cryptocurrencies. The idea is to weaken sovereign currencies and undermine the monetary system. In the minds of Silicon Valley billionaires, cryptocurrencies will enable the abolition of an essential sovereign prerogative of the state.
Add to this the fact that Trump has dealt a blow to US arms exports, as the US has proven in Ukraine that it is not a reliable supplier. In short, Moscow is rubbing its hands: in just a few weeks, Trump has managed to alienate the entire world, starting with his staunchest allies.
The nature of Putin’s hold on Trump
This dramatic alignment between Washington and Moscow has prompted observers to question whether Trump is an agent of the Kremlin or simply a ‘useful idiot’. A recent remark by Trump sheds some light on the relationship between the two men: ‘Let me tell you, Putin has had a tough time with me. He has been subjected to a fake witch hunt, in which they used him and Russia. Russia, Russia, have you heard about this deal before? […] It was a democratic lie. He had to go through all this. And he did.” Trump sees Putin as a comrade-in-arms, a man who has his own enemies (the liberals, the ‘globalists’) and who, like him, has suffered because of them. Trump is as much a predator as Putin.
He cannot imagine a transaction where both partners win: in a deal, there is always someone who is the butt of the joke. Trump and Putin are convinced that the whole world is conspiring to fleece the US and Russia. For them, controlling a Lebensraum is worth more than conquering markets. Trump might subscribe to this remark by Alexander Prokhanov, the champion of Eurasianism:‘Forget the inviolability of borders. For every empire, borders are fluid; they can and must be moved. The more space you control, the less likely you are to be eaten by others.
The American president admires the way Putin has defeated his enemies at home and is ready to take deferential advice from him.
Like Putin, Trump is above all a man of resentment and revenge. Nothing consolidates an alliance better than shared hatred. Putin masterfully plays on Trump’s paranoid conspiracy theories and his unhealthy thirst for revenge. It convinced him that supporting Ukraine was Biden’s policy, so he absolutely had to distance himself from it if he didn’t want to turn to men who had served in the Democratic administration. It convinced him that turning the FBI into a police force to deal with opponents would infuriate ‘liberals’. In short, it made him believe that all the pro-Russian measures he suggested were the best way to fool his opponents in the old establishment.
The set of decisions we mentioned above suggests that Trump is closely supervised by Russian or Russian-controlled ‘advisers’, just as communists were in the future popular democracies in 1945-1946, e.g. a Rakosi or an Ulbricht. The Trump administration only shows consistency in what is promoted by Moscow in Russia’s interest.
Trump’s daily proximity to Kremlin personalities is also revealed in his rhetoric. As soon as Putin declared Zelensky ‘illegitimate’, Trump started singing the same refrain, repeating the nonsense of Russian propaganda without realising that he was betraying his closeness to his Russian mentors. Trump calls the border with Canada ‘artificial’: exactly what Putin said about the border with Ukraine.
We even see Trump engaging in Russian insults. Thus, indignant at the Wall Street Journal ‘s criticism of his policies, he calls the publication ‘globalist’: the ultimate insult from Vladimir Putin.
This contamination by Russian propaganda is also evident within the Republican Party. So Senator Mike Johnson claims that the anti-Trump protesters are paid by Soros: exactly a copy and paste of what the Russian media kept repeating about the opposition to Putin’s regime…”.
Below : Alexander Dugin expressed his contentment with Trump’s actions on X
