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"A New Foreign Policy for Europe: Give Russia a free hand on the Continent", Curtis Yarvin.

The influence of a far-right ideologue on the Trump administration.

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On January 17, 2022, one week before the start of a large-scale war, Curtis Yarvin wrote an article entitled "A New Foreign Policy for Europe: Give Russia a free hand on the Continent".


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In the article, he described the goals and measures of Trump and Putin in relation to Ukraine and Europe, which are now being put into practice.

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Yarvin goes on to write in the article that it is now Russia's destiny to restore order in Europe. But since America is stronger than Russia, Trump really needs to make Putin understand that it's okay to withdraw from Europe.

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The software developer Curtis Guy Yarvin, also known under the pseudonym "Mencius Moldbug", is a "neoreactionary" thinker and far-right blogger who has great influence on key figures in the new Trump administration.

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He is considered the founder of the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the "Dark Enlightenment" or Neoreactionary Movement (NRx): "The future could be an ultra-capitalist and hyper-technological neo-monarchy."

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Under the pseudonym "Moldbug", Yarvin gave a talk on "rebooting" the US government at the 2012 BIL conference. He used the acronym "RAGE", which he defined as "fire all government employees".

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From 2007 to 2016, he ran a blog titled "Unqualified Reservations," in which he argued that American democracy was a failed experiment and should be replaced by a monarchy or a cooperative.

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Curtis Yarvin's ideas have had a major influence on the Trump right, which includes Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians.
In January 2025, Yarvin attended Trump's inauguration gala in Washington, D.C.

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Yarvin has links to the far-right US website Breitbart News, which its former chairman Steve Bannon described as "a platform for the alt-right".
The American billionaire Robert Mercer, one of Trump's biggest donors, has invested 10 Mio. USD in Breitbart.

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It was revealed that Steve Bannon, chief White House strategist under Donald Trump (2017), read Yarvin's blog and that Yarvin reportedly established a connection to the White House by communicating with Bannon and his aides through an intermediary.

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Yarvin said his White House contact was Twitter user Bronze Age Pervert - a pseudonymous far-right internet personality.
Yarvin later gave a copy of Bronze Age Perversion book "Bronze Age Thinking" to Michael Anton, a former top national security official in the Trump administration.

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JD Vance is also deeply rooted in the far-right scene. On X, JD Vance follows anonymous niche posters such as Bronze Age Pervert, Raw Egg Nationalist and Lomez, who have either expressed racist beliefs or, in the case of the latter, published books by racists through his publishing company.

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JD Vance not only maintains a close relationship with Curtis Yarvin and is considered his confidant and friend, but is also referred to as "his disciple" and shares his ideology. One of these ideologies is to turn the USA into a monarchy.

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J.D. Vance cited Jarwin's RAGE concept and suggested that if Trump were to become president again, he should "Fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, [and] replace them with our people."

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In 2023, Vance became a senator with financial support from Thiel, the inventor of Palantir. Before his political rise, Vance worked for several of Thiel's companies.

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Yarvin had a particular influence on technology investor Peter Thiel, who described freedom and democracy as incompatible. Thiel invested in Yarvin's company Tlon, who in turn claimed to have "coached" Thiel.

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Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, is another pillar of the NRx movement and a fervent financier of Yarvin and other neoreactionaries. The multi-billionaire Thiel wrote in 2009 in a text for the Cato Institute: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

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Together with Thiel, Vance is an investor in Rumble, which is favored by the right-wing scene. Rumble is one of the most important platforms for Russian propaganda.

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Yarvin has found many supporters in the powerful and increasingly political ranks of Silicon Valley, including Marc Andreessen.
He is a software developer and investor. Andreessen also sits on the board of Facebook Inc.

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The extremist ideology of Curtis Yarvin is also being implemented by Musk.
Elon is gradually implementing a version of Yarvin's Butterfly Revolution - a plan to take control of the state infrastructure without ever staging a formal coup d'état.

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Curtis Yarvin advocates a complete restructuring of the government. His plan is no longer a theory, but is already being implemented through Musk's involvement in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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Recent developments in US politics raise anxious questions about the growing influence of tech billionaires on politics.
Vance, Thiel and Musk have spoken out about the need for an autocracy - Yarvin's vision of technocratic rule.

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Yarvin's influence on MAGA has attracted the attention of the Russian new right-wing think tank «Katechon», which was founded by the oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev and whose editor-in-chief is Dugin.

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Yarvin's ideas gradually seeped into the minds of the right-wing mainstream. His following became so large that it established a base in the White House.
History is full of examples of psychotic utopians who promised a "Golden Age" and in reality created an oppressive tyranny.

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