Ultranationalist Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin pinned hopes on Moscow's relations with the U.S. beneath Trump's administration in an interview with CNN aired on March 30.
Dugin, a fervent supporter of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has lengthy been an advocate of Russian imperialism and a number one determine of Russia's flip towards hardline nationalism and authoritarian rule.
The ideologue can be a suspect and needed in Ukraine beneath the articles of genocide and encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
In an interview with CNN, Dugin praised U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he represented an ideology that "adjustments the steadiness on the earth."
"In these new situations, I feel Putin's Russia and Putin personally stops to be the primary enemy, the primary evil man," Dugin claimed.
"Trumpists and followers of Trump will perceive significantly better what Russia is, who Putin is, and the motivation of our politics," he added.
In line with Dugin, Washington and Moscow have now found many frequent factors. He stated, nonetheless, that it could be too early to speak about an alliance between the U.S. and Russia towards Europe.
"If, for instance, Trump would withdraw the U.S. from the struggle towards us in Ukraine, there could possibly be a scenario that we are going to battle towards European globalists, European liberals in Ukraine with out America," Dugin claimed, parroting long-standing Russian narratives about Washington's involvement in Russia's all-out struggle towards Ukraine.
Dugin grew to become broadly identified after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine was justified partly by a few of his earlier works on Russia’s superiority and its mission to create a "Eurasian Union," a plan for the combination of Russia with the nations that have been previously a part of the Soviet Union.
Within the early phases of the Moscow-instigated struggle in Donbas in 2014, Dugin informed Russian state tv that "Ukrainians must be killed, killed, killed."
The identical 12 months, Dugin stated on the VK social community that "Ukraine must be cleansed of idiots. A genocide of cretins is a given."
"I don't consider that these persons are Ukrainians… They’re some race of bastards that crept up from the sewers."
In August 2022, he misplaced his daughter in a automotive explosion that was almost certainly meant to focus on him.
The Kyiv IndependentThe Kyiv Independent news desk