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New info on the #Dugina assassination. I will say again that I am happy to stand where I do (and have stood) in the "#Dugin is irrelevant" debate. He never has been a proper Rasputin sitting in Putin's office. But...
nytimes.com/2022/10/05/us/…
New info on the #Dugina assassination. I will say again that I am happy to stand where I do (and have stood) in the "#Dugin is irrelevant" debate. He never has been a proper Rasputin sitting in Putin's office. But...
nytimes.com/2022/10/05/us/…
He and his daughter would not have been targeted, and there wouldn't have been an international scramble to interpret the killing, were he as "irrelevant" as some of my much esteemed colleagues claim.
Russian, Ukrainian, and now US governments are using the death for particular political purposes. That, in the midst of all the unknowns that remain here, is clear.
The NYT calls him a "prominent Russian nationalist," and I don't see any way to deny that designation now.
The NYT calls him a "prominent Russian nationalist," and I don't see any way to deny that designation now.
Here is my first comment on the assassination. I still don't see a motive for Ukraine, BTW:
spiked-online.com/2022/08/23/why…
spiked-online.com/2022/08/23/why…
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