Putin's Rasputin?
I have started to see references to Aleksandr Dugin, with regard to Putin's behaviour and thinking, so I Googled. This essay (from 2020) seems useful. "The most trenchant of these [Dugin's] recommendations include the invasion of Georgia, the annexation of Ukraine, the separation of Britain from the rest of Europe, and the sowing of divisive seeds in the United States, each of which should sound quite familiar." https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/5/28/putins-playbook-reviewing-dugins-foundations-of-geopoliticsInteresting back-up from a 2014 letter in the Guardian (Tom Burke, 20/3/14):In "The Grand Chessboard, written in 1998 by one of President Obama's favourite foreign affairs theorists and President Carter's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, [he] argued that the US had to take control of a number of strategic countries, including Ukraine, arguing that that country is "a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country (means) Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire". He warns against allowing Russia to regain control over the country because, by doing so, "Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia"."I hate the idea that we live on a chessboard.
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