3:00 PM. The explosions resumed and have been going all day. Same sector, Irpin. To my untrained ear it sounds more like artillery than missiles. The consistency is what one would expect of an artillery assault. I hope I'm right in guessing that it is a sustained Ukrainian counterattack on the dug-in Russian positions.
Mar 28, 2022·edited Mar 28, 2022Liked by Graham Seibert
A lot of the Putin-supporting "conservatives" have been taken in by Alexander Dugin's Fourth Political Theory - "Foundations of Geopolitics is by far Dugin’s most important work. Dugin himself describes it as an “indispensable guide for all those who make decisions in the most important spheres of Russian political life – for politicians, entrepreneurs, economists, bankers, diplomats, analysts, political scientists, and so on.” In FoG, Dugin outlines his ‘Neo-Eurasianist’ geopolitical strategy, which includes a multitude of instructions on how to subvert, manipulate, and conquer various countries in order to create a Eurasianist empire.
As Dugin said, the book is highly influential among Russian elites, including the military, who used it as a textbook in their Academy of the General Staff. It was co-drafted by Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, head of the International Department of the Russian Ministry of Defence. After writing FoG, Dugin was hired as a guest lecturer by the military, to explain his geopolitical Neo-Eurasianist theory to Russian officers and the likes. Seleznyov, a former Russian State Duma speaker and a buddy of Dugin, urged that FoG should be incorporated into the Russian school curriculum.
The most important thing about FoG is that it is, essentially, straight-to-the-point and completely “mask-off,” which you’ll see when we get into the contents of the book in the following sections.
Fourth Political Theory, on the other hand, couldn’t be more different. You may have seen 4PT being praised by various nationalists in the West, as it has been heavily marketed to Westerners by Arktos Media (which publishes and translates Dugin’s work for Western consumption) and other “New Right” or “Alt-Right” influencers. 4PT is not designed for Russian consumption, but to be read by hapless Western nationalists. Dugin’s aim with 4PT is to ideologically subvert nationalists in the West, making them more malleable and likely to assist (passively or actively) him in achieving the political goals he laid out in Foundations of Geopolitics. 4PT is overflowing with psychobabble, verbose gobbledygook, and complete bastardizations of various historic right-wing thinkers — particularly notable is the manner in which Dugin mutated and completely inverted the Traditionalist School of thought. 4PT will be quoted throughout this piece, but for an idea of the sort of nonsense included in the book, chapter 13, “Gender in the Fourth Political Theory,” is devoted to arguing in favor of a-sexual transgenderism. Behind the shoddy and transparent mask of phony “Traditionalism,” nothing separates Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory from the extant ideology of the New World Order* that he claims to oppose.
* Often labeled as “Neo-Liberalism,” though I personally believe that this label is inaccurate and insufficient.
In summary:
FoG is Dugin’s political strategy document, in which he outlines highly detailed plans on how to create a Eurasian empire by subverting foreign nations, it was written for Eurasianists, to benefit Eurasianists. 4PT is an implementation of FoG’s political strategy, in that 4PT is a subversive book written for Westerners and disseminated in the West, to channel Western nationalism towards Eurasianist ends." https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/heres-a-little-article-by-aleksandr
Unz has fallen for this bit of desinformatsiya hook, line, and sinker: "All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates as an ideology, but rather as something taken for granted. The world today finds itself on the brink of a post-political reality – one in which the values of liberalism are so deeply embedded that the average person is not aware that there is an ideology at work around him. As a result, liberalism is threatening to monopolise political discourse and drown the world in a universal sameness, destroying everything that makes the various cultures and peoples unique. According to Alexander Dugin, what is needed to break through this morass is a fourth ideology – one that will sift through the debris of the first three to look for elements that might be useful, but that remains innovative and unique in itself. Dugin does not offer a point-by-point program for this new theory, but rather outlines the parameters within which it might develop and the issues which it must address. Dugin foresees that the Fourth Political Theory will use the tools and concepts of modernity against itself, to bring about a return of cultural diversity against commercialisation, as well as the traditional worldview of all the peoples of the world – albeit within an entirely new context. Written by a scholar who is actively influencing the direction of Russian geopolitical strategy today, The Fourth Political Theory is an introduction to an idea that may well shape the course of the world’s political future.
Alexander Dugin (b. 1962) is one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post-Soviet Russia. In addition to the many books he has authored on political, philosophical and spiritual topics, he currently serves on the staff of Moscow State University, and is the intellectual leader of the Eurasia Movement. For more than a decade, he has also been an advisor to Vladimir Putin and others in the Kremlin on geopolitical matters, being a vocal advocate of a return of Russian power to the global stage, to act as a counterweight to American domination." https://www.unz.com/bookstore/alexander_dugin__the-fourth-political-theory/
No real critique of this has appeared in those pages, presumably because few American "conservatives" can read any language other than English - not even French or German. If they'd read Foundations of Geopolitics - they might have a slightly different take on things, especially since FoG states, in pertinent part, that "Next comes the Ukrainian question. The sovereignty of Ukraine is such a negative
phenomenon for Russian geopolitics that, in principle, it can easily provoke an armed
conflict. Without the Black Sea coast from Izmail to Kerch, Russia gets such an
extended coastal strip, really controlled by someone unknown, that its very existence
as a normal and independent state is called into question. The Black Sea does not
replace access to the "warm seas" and its geopolitical significance drops sharply due
to the stable Atlanticist control over the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, but at least it
makes it possible to secure the central regions from the potential expansion of Turkish
influence, being extremely convenient, reliable and an inexpensive border.
Ukraine, as an independent state with some kind of territorial ambitions, poses a huge
danger to the whole of Eurasia, and without a solution to the Ukrainian problem, it is
pointless to talk about continental geopolitics at all. This does not mean that the cultural,
linguistic or economic autonomy of Ukraine should be limited, and that it should become
a purely administrative sector of the Russian centralized state (as, to some extent, was the
case in the tsarist empire or under the USSR). But strategically, Ukraine should be strictly a
projection of Moscow in the south and west (although more details about possible models
of restructuring will be discussed in the chapter on the West).
The absolute imperative of Russian geopolitics on the Black Sea coast is the total and
unlimited control of Moscow along its entire length from Ukrainian to Abkhazian
territories. It is possible to divide this entire zone on an ethno-cultural basis as much
as you like, granting ethnic and confessional autonomy to the Crimean Little Russians,
Tatars, Cossacks, Abkhazians, Georgians, etc., but all this only with absolute control of
Moscow over the military and political situation. These sectors must be radically
divorced from the thalassocratic influence coming from the west and from Turkey (or
even Greece). The northern coast of the Black Sea should be exclusively Eurasian and
And that last bit, written 25 years ago, is being carried out today. Taking *that* into consideration, it should be more widely known as having been a goal for the last quarter century of neo-Bolshevists such as Dugin and Putin. This, of course, puts Putin's theft of Crimea in the floodlights, and the "Crimean referendum" in question. This should make it apparent that he intends to take Ukraine and the other Black Sea nations one chunk at a time...
Mar 28, 2022·edited Mar 28, 2022Liked by Graham Seibert
got truncated. I'm just going to make a post to my substack. Here's where the rubber hits the road so far as the present situation is concerned, though:
"Next comes the Ukrainian question. The sovereignty of Ukraine is such a negative phenomenon for Russian geopolitics that, in principle, it can easily provoke an armed conflict. Without the Black Sea coast from Izmail to Kerch, Russia gets such an extended coastal strip, really controlled by someone unknown, that its very existence as a normal and independent state is called into question. The Black Sea does not replace access to the "warm seas" and its geopolitical significance drops sharply due to the stable Atlanticist control over the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, but at least it makes it possible to secure the central regions from the potential expansion of Turkish influence, being extremely convenient, reliable and an inexpensive border. Ukraine, as an independent state with some kind of territorial ambitions, poses a huge danger to the whole of Eurasia, and without a solution to the Ukrainian problem, it is pointless to talk about continental geopolitics at all. This does not mean that the cultural, linguistic or economic autonomy of Ukraine should be limited, and that it should become a purely administrative sector of the Russian centralized state (as, to some extent, was the case in the tsarist empire or under the USSR). But strategically, Ukraine should be strictly a projection of Moscow in the south and west (although more details about possible models of restructuring will be discussed in the chapter on the West). The absolute imperative of Russian geopolitics on the Black Sea coast is the total and unlimited control of Moscow along its entire length from Ukrainian to Abkhazian territories. It is possible to divide this entire zone on an ethno-cultural basis as much as you like, granting ethnic and confessional autonomy to the Crimean Little Russians, Tatars, Cossacks, Abkhazians, Georgians, etc., but all this only with absolute control of Moscow over the military and political situation. These sectors must be radically divorced from the thalassocratic influence coming from the west and from Turkey (or even Greece). The northern coast of the Black Sea should be exclusively Eurasian and centrally subordinate to Moscow..." https://n01r.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Foundations-of-Geopolitics-Geopolitical-Future-of-Russia-Alexander-Dugin-English-auto-translation-with-appended-original.pdf
And that last bit, written 25 years ago, is being carried out today. Crimea was the first chunk to be bitten off, now it’s Donetsk, Zaporhizia, and Kherson Oblasts, after that Odessa. Moldova appears to have been placed within the Moscow-dominated Eurasian sphere of influence. If this analysis is correct, then Romania is next, followed by Bulgaria - but Ukraine is the keystone. It should now be obvious - from this book written 25 years ago (whose full English translation I just found - French and German are easy, but Russian is hard work...) - that the outrage over the US-funded biological warfare labs and everything else was just a convenient pretext for something that was planned out decades ago. https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/putins-and-dugins-vision-of-a-greater for reference...
If as Holmans note, the corruption within the military causes field failures, Ukrainian forces will eventually push the Russians out. Hopefully they will restrain themselves in retribution.
And if history repeats itself, there will be chances for a new post-war Russia. Corruption and the evils of addiction need to be managed. Not sure if the new owners of post war Russia will be capable.
Weird that the covid pushers were all Jewish (the CEOs of Phizer, Moderna, and J&J, as well as the CDC director)... and after they made their billions, they handed off to 'stand with Ukraine or we'll deperson you', led by... Jewish Zewlinsky. Who's now getting $15B from the USA...
Some are simply blinded by an irrational ideology. There is much to admire among Jewish culture but they are not monolithic. Their culture admits to various blind spots as we do.
Indeed, all cultures have strengths and weaknesses. And Jewish culture is very varied. There are legitmate criticisms to make but it is very boring to see people blame everything that ever goes wrong, anywhere, all on some sort of nefarious Jewish plotting. A monomania of a particularly tedious variety.
3:00 PM. The explosions resumed and have been going all day. Same sector, Irpin. To my untrained ear it sounds more like artillery than missiles. The consistency is what one would expect of an artillery assault. I hope I'm right in guessing that it is a sustained Ukrainian counterattack on the dug-in Russian positions.
The BBC is reporting that Ukrainian forces have liberated Irpin.
Increasingly, this looks like the Russian army of 1905 rather than 1945.
The road back to Russia is littered with exhausted troops, tanks, etc. If Ukraine has the strength to push them hard, it could be a rout.
A lot of the Putin-supporting "conservatives" have been taken in by Alexander Dugin's Fourth Political Theory - "Foundations of Geopolitics is by far Dugin’s most important work. Dugin himself describes it as an “indispensable guide for all those who make decisions in the most important spheres of Russian political life – for politicians, entrepreneurs, economists, bankers, diplomats, analysts, political scientists, and so on.” In FoG, Dugin outlines his ‘Neo-Eurasianist’ geopolitical strategy, which includes a multitude of instructions on how to subvert, manipulate, and conquer various countries in order to create a Eurasianist empire.
As Dugin said, the book is highly influential among Russian elites, including the military, who used it as a textbook in their Academy of the General Staff. It was co-drafted by Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, head of the International Department of the Russian Ministry of Defence. After writing FoG, Dugin was hired as a guest lecturer by the military, to explain his geopolitical Neo-Eurasianist theory to Russian officers and the likes. Seleznyov, a former Russian State Duma speaker and a buddy of Dugin, urged that FoG should be incorporated into the Russian school curriculum.
The most important thing about FoG is that it is, essentially, straight-to-the-point and completely “mask-off,” which you’ll see when we get into the contents of the book in the following sections.
Fourth Political Theory, on the other hand, couldn’t be more different. You may have seen 4PT being praised by various nationalists in the West, as it has been heavily marketed to Westerners by Arktos Media (which publishes and translates Dugin’s work for Western consumption) and other “New Right” or “Alt-Right” influencers. 4PT is not designed for Russian consumption, but to be read by hapless Western nationalists. Dugin’s aim with 4PT is to ideologically subvert nationalists in the West, making them more malleable and likely to assist (passively or actively) him in achieving the political goals he laid out in Foundations of Geopolitics. 4PT is overflowing with psychobabble, verbose gobbledygook, and complete bastardizations of various historic right-wing thinkers — particularly notable is the manner in which Dugin mutated and completely inverted the Traditionalist School of thought. 4PT will be quoted throughout this piece, but for an idea of the sort of nonsense included in the book, chapter 13, “Gender in the Fourth Political Theory,” is devoted to arguing in favor of a-sexual transgenderism. Behind the shoddy and transparent mask of phony “Traditionalism,” nothing separates Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory from the extant ideology of the New World Order* that he claims to oppose.
* Often labeled as “Neo-Liberalism,” though I personally believe that this label is inaccurate and insufficient.
In summary:
FoG is Dugin’s political strategy document, in which he outlines highly detailed plans on how to create a Eurasian empire by subverting foreign nations, it was written for Eurasianists, to benefit Eurasianists. 4PT is an implementation of FoG’s political strategy, in that 4PT is a subversive book written for Westerners and disseminated in the West, to channel Western nationalism towards Eurasianist ends." https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/heres-a-little-article-by-aleksandr
Unz has fallen for this bit of desinformatsiya hook, line, and sinker: "All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates as an ideology, but rather as something taken for granted. The world today finds itself on the brink of a post-political reality – one in which the values of liberalism are so deeply embedded that the average person is not aware that there is an ideology at work around him. As a result, liberalism is threatening to monopolise political discourse and drown the world in a universal sameness, destroying everything that makes the various cultures and peoples unique. According to Alexander Dugin, what is needed to break through this morass is a fourth ideology – one that will sift through the debris of the first three to look for elements that might be useful, but that remains innovative and unique in itself. Dugin does not offer a point-by-point program for this new theory, but rather outlines the parameters within which it might develop and the issues which it must address. Dugin foresees that the Fourth Political Theory will use the tools and concepts of modernity against itself, to bring about a return of cultural diversity against commercialisation, as well as the traditional worldview of all the peoples of the world – albeit within an entirely new context. Written by a scholar who is actively influencing the direction of Russian geopolitical strategy today, The Fourth Political Theory is an introduction to an idea that may well shape the course of the world’s political future.
Alexander Dugin (b. 1962) is one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post-Soviet Russia. In addition to the many books he has authored on political, philosophical and spiritual topics, he currently serves on the staff of Moscow State University, and is the intellectual leader of the Eurasia Movement. For more than a decade, he has also been an advisor to Vladimir Putin and others in the Kremlin on geopolitical matters, being a vocal advocate of a return of Russian power to the global stage, to act as a counterweight to American domination." https://www.unz.com/bookstore/alexander_dugin__the-fourth-political-theory/
No real critique of this has appeared in those pages, presumably because few American "conservatives" can read any language other than English - not even French or German. If they'd read Foundations of Geopolitics - they might have a slightly different take on things, especially since FoG states, in pertinent part, that "Next comes the Ukrainian question. The sovereignty of Ukraine is such a negative
phenomenon for Russian geopolitics that, in principle, it can easily provoke an armed
conflict. Without the Black Sea coast from Izmail to Kerch, Russia gets such an
extended coastal strip, really controlled by someone unknown, that its very existence
as a normal and independent state is called into question. The Black Sea does not
replace access to the "warm seas" and its geopolitical significance drops sharply due
to the stable Atlanticist control over the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, but at least it
makes it possible to secure the central regions from the potential expansion of Turkish
influence, being extremely convenient, reliable and an inexpensive border.
Ukraine, as an independent state with some kind of territorial ambitions, poses a huge
danger to the whole of Eurasia, and without a solution to the Ukrainian problem, it is
pointless to talk about continental geopolitics at all. This does not mean that the cultural,
linguistic or economic autonomy of Ukraine should be limited, and that it should become
a purely administrative sector of the Russian centralized state (as, to some extent, was the
case in the tsarist empire or under the USSR). But strategically, Ukraine should be strictly a
projection of Moscow in the south and west (although more details about possible models
of restructuring will be discussed in the chapter on the West).
The absolute imperative of Russian geopolitics on the Black Sea coast is the total and
unlimited control of Moscow along its entire length from Ukrainian to Abkhazian
territories. It is possible to divide this entire zone on an ethno-cultural basis as much
as you like, granting ethnic and confessional autonomy to the Crimean Little Russians,
Tatars, Cossacks, Abkhazians, Georgians, etc., but all this only with absolute control of
Moscow over the military and political situation. These sectors must be radically
divorced from the thalassocratic influence coming from the west and from Turkey (or
even Greece). The northern coast of the Black Sea should be exclusively Eurasian and
centrally subordinate to Moscow..." https://n01r.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Foundations-of-Geopolitics-Geopolitical-Future-of-Russia-Alexander-Dugin-English-auto-translation-with-appended-original.pdf
And that last bit, written 25 years ago, is being carried out today. Taking *that* into consideration, it should be more widely known as having been a goal for the last quarter century of neo-Bolshevists such as Dugin and Putin. This, of course, puts Putin's theft of Crimea in the floodlights, and the "Crimean referendum" in question. This should make it apparent that he intends to take Ukraine and the other Black Sea nations one chunk at a time...
got truncated. I'm just going to make a post to my substack. Here's where the rubber hits the road so far as the present situation is concerned, though:
"Next comes the Ukrainian question. The sovereignty of Ukraine is such a negative phenomenon for Russian geopolitics that, in principle, it can easily provoke an armed conflict. Without the Black Sea coast from Izmail to Kerch, Russia gets such an extended coastal strip, really controlled by someone unknown, that its very existence as a normal and independent state is called into question. The Black Sea does not replace access to the "warm seas" and its geopolitical significance drops sharply due to the stable Atlanticist control over the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, but at least it makes it possible to secure the central regions from the potential expansion of Turkish influence, being extremely convenient, reliable and an inexpensive border. Ukraine, as an independent state with some kind of territorial ambitions, poses a huge danger to the whole of Eurasia, and without a solution to the Ukrainian problem, it is pointless to talk about continental geopolitics at all. This does not mean that the cultural, linguistic or economic autonomy of Ukraine should be limited, and that it should become a purely administrative sector of the Russian centralized state (as, to some extent, was the case in the tsarist empire or under the USSR). But strategically, Ukraine should be strictly a projection of Moscow in the south and west (although more details about possible models of restructuring will be discussed in the chapter on the West). The absolute imperative of Russian geopolitics on the Black Sea coast is the total and unlimited control of Moscow along its entire length from Ukrainian to Abkhazian territories. It is possible to divide this entire zone on an ethno-cultural basis as much as you like, granting ethnic and confessional autonomy to the Crimean Little Russians, Tatars, Cossacks, Abkhazians, Georgians, etc., but all this only with absolute control of Moscow over the military and political situation. These sectors must be radically divorced from the thalassocratic influence coming from the west and from Turkey (or even Greece). The northern coast of the Black Sea should be exclusively Eurasian and centrally subordinate to Moscow..." https://n01r.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Foundations-of-Geopolitics-Geopolitical-Future-of-Russia-Alexander-Dugin-English-auto-translation-with-appended-original.pdf
And that last bit, written 25 years ago, is being carried out today. Crimea was the first chunk to be bitten off, now it’s Donetsk, Zaporhizia, and Kherson Oblasts, after that Odessa. Moldova appears to have been placed within the Moscow-dominated Eurasian sphere of influence. If this analysis is correct, then Romania is next, followed by Bulgaria - but Ukraine is the keystone. It should now be obvious - from this book written 25 years ago (whose full English translation I just found - French and German are easy, but Russian is hard work...) - that the outrage over the US-funded biological warfare labs and everything else was just a convenient pretext for something that was planned out decades ago. https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/putins-and-dugins-vision-of-a-greater for reference...
If as Holmans note, the corruption within the military causes field failures, Ukrainian forces will eventually push the Russians out. Hopefully they will restrain themselves in retribution.
And if history repeats itself, there will be chances for a new post-war Russia. Corruption and the evils of addiction need to be managed. Not sure if the new owners of post war Russia will be capable.
I like the expression [their butts kicked].
Weird that the covid pushers were all Jewish (the CEOs of Phizer, Moderna, and J&J, as well as the CDC director)... and after they made their billions, they handed off to 'stand with Ukraine or we'll deperson you', led by... Jewish Zewlinsky. Who's now getting $15B from the USA...
Not everything in the world is about the Jews. Try not to force everything to fit into that particular hole.
Some are simply blinded by an irrational ideology. There is much to admire among Jewish culture but they are not monolithic. Their culture admits to various blind spots as we do.
Indeed, all cultures have strengths and weaknesses. And Jewish culture is very varied. There are legitmate criticisms to make but it is very boring to see people blame everything that ever goes wrong, anywhere, all on some sort of nefarious Jewish plotting. A monomania of a particularly tedious variety.