in order to understand the mindset of the archenemy of the civilized world, this is the required reading 👇
and yes, for the first time I have read it 23 years ago, in summer 1999.
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just a glimpse of this Dugin "seminal" book "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia", written in 1997.
yes, it is the map of the cordial geopolitical divide of zones of influence in Europe between two best friends: Russia and Germany
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and this explains why I was always against lumping russia & China together.
Dugin in 1997 was seeing China's territories as a part of russia's borderlands. He proposed to divide China like this👇
I bet there are Chinese statesmen, who are old enough to remember this.
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a little more on this China-related topic.
Former China's Ambassador to Ukraine about Russia’s impending defeat and the IR after the war.
Gao’s comments address China’s interests at a closed conference, bcs the debate going on in China beneath the surface.
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"Certainly russia wants to stop the war and hold on to its gains; some Chinese might gather from Chinese media reporting, that Russia wants peace; those troublesome fascists in Ukraine just need to lay down their arms and listen to reason...
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... I imagine many invaders such as the Japanese in China in WWII might have been willing to get a cease-fire or even a settlement if those pesky resisters of the Imperial forces would just stop fighting...
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Japan did make a deal with puppet governments in Manchuria and Shanghai to make a sort of peace one might say."
The tone of the article doesn’t suggest UA & the USA are opposing peace — Gao states that RF wants to hold on to its gains while UA wants to repel the invader.
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it's all here and this is WOW, honestly: gaodawei.wordpress.com/2022/05/10/fmr…
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Yusheng knows Dugin maps from above. And Gao's parallels btwn Japanese invasion in China & russia's invasion in Ukraine are striking also bcs Dugin in 1997 has NOT seen China as a global player AT ALL.
Dugin was betting on russia's alliance with Japan & on division of China.
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