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Do not miss my father's assessment of Putin's plans. @Halsrethink spent time with him years before he became the Russian leader. He longs "for was a return of Imperial Russia, not Soviet Russia." This war is just beginning. unherd.com/2022/06/putins…
🧵 "Peter, he told me, had set in motion the magnificent strengthening of Russia completed by Catherine the Great: the establishment of Novorossiya, or Imperial Russia, spanning all of the Baltic Sea, the Nordics and Poland, nations to the W and to the S to the Azov and Black Sea
May 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Putin’s Rasputin: The Dangerous Mind of Aleksandr Dugin by @domingoladronlink.medium.com/F3rurs8RSpb. “Dugin believes this new Eurasian empire is the Russian people’s birthright, to rule once again over lesser peoples in the lands surrounding them”
2. According to Dugin, Russians are a messianic people, possessing “universal, pan-human significance”. This is an end if days type of thinking.
Apr 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Sergey Karagonov: “it’s about the final crash of the international system that was created after WWII and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We are witnessing the collapse of an economic system – of the world economic system – globalisation in this form is finished.
2. I found this interview w Karangov, advisor to Putin, cryptic and difficult to comprehend. The core idea is that Russia’s current leaders must “win” just because they want to be in charge. newstatesman.com/world/europe/u…