Foundations of Geopolitics

[The Hammer]

Let's take a look at Russia's long game shall we. Maybe we can see what's going on currently, through their lens.

Foundations of Geopolitics - Wikipedia

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"The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia (Russian: Основы геополитики: геополитическое будущее России) is a geopolitical book by Aleksandr Dugin. Its publication in 1997 was well received in Russia; it has had significant influence within the Russian military, police forces, and foreign policy elites,[1][2] and has been used as a textbook in the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian military."

Brexit:

"The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from the European Union.[9]"

US current volatile state of affairs:

"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]"

Ukraine:

"Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics". Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent"


Granted some things in this book are not going on, or may not be possible. But this surely looks like a play by play in many respects.

 

[Eddi]

I'd heard of this but had forgotten what it's called

 

[The Hammer]

I'd heard of this but had forgotten what it's called

Yup. We live in interesting times.

 

[Eddi]

Yup. We live in interesting times.

I'm going to give a friend of mine a copy of it for Christmas he likes stuff like that

 

[Viker]

"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]"

Seems that's going as well as planned.

 

[The Hammer]

Seems that's going as well as planned.

With the Internet, probably better than they anticipated.

 

[Augustus]

But this surely looks like a play by play in many respects.

More like a prescient observation of global trends, otherwise it seems to assume far more ability to control events than Russia actually has.

Other than Ukraine, their role in events is negligible.

“Deglobalisation” is largely a response to neoliberal policies and their consequences. These are self-created, not “Russian disinformation”.

The desire to blame Russia is the same desire that fuels conspiracy theories or the belief that religions are regressive forces mostly about “controlling the masses”: a desire to think events and human history have a direction towards progress and that only malign actors prevent this from occurring.

It’s the dying embers of enlightenment humanistic universalism, which was never universal, just the culturally contingent output of Christian Europe (and its offshoots).

Many simply find it hard to accept that history has no direction and is chaotic, cyclical and beyond human control.

 

[Mock Turtle]

More like a prescient observation of global trends, otherwise it seems to assume far more ability to control events than Russia actually has.

Other than Ukraine, their role in events is negligible.

“Deglobalisation” is largely a response to neoliberal policies and their consequences. These are self-created, not “Russian disinformation”.

The desire to blame Russia is the same desire that fuels conspiracy theories or the belief that religions are regressive forces mostly about “controlling the masses”: a desire to think events and human history have a direction towards progress and that only malign actors prevent this from occurring.

It’s the dying embers of enlightenment humanistic universalism, which was never universal, just the culturally contingent output of Christian Europe (and its offshoots).

Many simply find it hard to accept that history has no direction and is chaotic, cyclical and beyond human control.

I'm sure many know in what directions not to go though - as to tyrants, theocracies, anarchies, etc.