Dugin: We are on the brink of World War III, nuclear Armageddon is approaching
We have reached the point of no return
This informative piece is translated for me from Greek War News. I am monolingual. Lazy really, other languages have intellectual interest, I know and do not doubt knowledge of modern Persian, let alone Russian,or modern Greek, would be tremendously helpful in pursuing the thought of these people. However I think two traumas prevented my personality from finding the strength to learn. Surely the most traumatic was in the mandatory Spanish language class broadcast on Public Television. We students were stuck in a portable toxic classroom filled with Asbestos and had droned into our heads how to count and the crucial ritual phrase in Spanish used to stir a bowl of chocolate. Then in 9th grade learning German we were taught by a Swiss whose native language was Italian. Not clear on what we learned since her accent in both German and English was thicker than the Nordstream Pipelines recently demolished.
So now from Google I post this by a fringe Russian thinker much hyped because important Russians read him and did not send him to the Gulag.
Now I don't pretend to quite grasp the subtle upward mobility of all and everything to six or seven geriatrics. I assume the man like Kissinger can with biotech extend existence 10 more years. A man like Gates 30. Then in bliss just before death thanks to drugs they have their something or other uploaded to AI off world in some Lunar cavern and extend and pretend a few centuries more. I dunno. Science Fiction suggests it is workable. And given present global circumstances after Covid-the Great Reset-the Rapture looks feasible with a nuclear exchange. Tech is not completely destroyed but everything else is.
Again I cannot really speak about this but as an avid SF reader from 1965 to 1985 including the old pulps I once collected, in the back of mind everything conforms to speculative fiction. My 12 year stint in college dropping in and out of various majors culminating in my work in Sacramento as a student lobbyist for 3 years and my gig at 30 writing a twenty year study of Tort Reform and then moving to SF to have a real good time can only confirm my confusion about politics.
Now comes Dugin. I have read writers Dugin has read. Not all and not as closely as he. But despite having no language skills like he has I do understand very well where he bases his thought.
Dugin though is nowhere near my cynicism. Covid only confirmed to me how intuitive at 20 I was and why at 30 in the Bohemian profession setting my forehead against the Ignorant Hirelings instead of making bank was wise.
Dugin warns us and while personally I think atomic war this October will be set aside he might be right.
Translation of Greek War News
Alexander Dugin, advisor to the president of Russia, speaks about World War III in a fiery article, whose remarks are of particular importance as he is considered by many to be the mastermind behind Russia's Vladimir Putin's moves on the geopolitical "chessboard".
A. Dugin reports what Chinese analysts said a few days ago: A compromise between the West and Russia is now almost impossible as the US wants the defeat and disintegration of Russia.
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Dugin's article
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"In recent days there have been significant changes in the balance of power in Ukraine. This needs to be looked at as a whole.
Kiev counterattacks were generally unsuccessful in the Kherson region, but, unfortunately, successful in the Kharkov region. The situation in the Kharkiv area and the forced retreat of the allied forces is the turning point.
Leaving aside the psychological effects and justified feelings of patriots, we should note that in the entire history of SMO (special military operation, as Russia calls the invasion of Ukraine) we have reached the point of no return.
Everyone is now recommending emergency measures to reverse the situation, and some of them are quite rational. We do not claim originality by any means, but will only attempt to summarize the most fundamental points and propositions and place them in the global geopolitical context.
World War III
We are on the brink of a Third World War, into which the West is pushing us obsessively. And this is no longer a fear or an expectation, this is a fact.
Russia is estimated to have over 1,450 ready-to-use nuclear warheads, about 100 more than the US
Russia is at war with the collective West, with NATO and their allies (though not with all of them – Turkey and Greece have their place, and some European countries, notably France and Italy, but not only , they do not want to actively participate in the war with Russia). And yet the threat of a Third World War looms.
Whether it involves the use of nuclear weapons is an open question. But the possibility of a nuclear Armageddon is growing every day.
It is abundantly clear, and many American military leaders (such as the former commander of US Forces Europe, Ben Hodges) openly proclaim that the West will no longer be satisfied even with our complete withdrawal from the territory of the former Ukraine. we will end up on our soil, insisting on "unconditional surrender" (Jens Stoltenberg), "de-imperialism" (Ben Hodges), dismemberment of Russia.
In 1991, the West was satisfied with the collapse of the USSR and our ideological capitulation, mainly the adoption of Western liberal ideology, political system and economy under Western leadership.
Today, for the West, the red line is the existence of a sovereign Russia – even within the borders of the Russian Federation.
Wound from the West against Russia
The counterattack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region is a direct blow from the West against Russia. Everyone knows that this attack was organized, prepared and equipped by the military command of the United States and NATO and was carried out under their direct supervision.
It is not just about the use of NATO military equipment, but also Western aerospace intelligence, mercenaries and trainers.
In the eyes of the West, this is the beginning of "our end". Since we have shown some weakness in the defense of the territories under our control in the Kharkiv area, we can be defeated further.
This is not a minor success of Kiev's counter-offensive, this is the first tangible success of NATO forces' Drang nach Osten.
Of course, one can try to attribute this to temporary "technical difficulties" and postpone the substantive analysis of the situation until later. But this will only delay the realization of a fait accompli, and thereby only weaken and discourage ourselves.
Therefore, it is worth coldly admitting: the West has declared war on us and is already waging it. We did not choose this war, we did not want it. In 1941, we also did not want war with Nazi Germany and refused to believe in it until the end.
But in the current situation, when it is de facto against us, this is not decisive. Now it is only important to win him over, defending Russia's right to exist.
End of SMO
SMO as a limited operation for the liberation of Donbass and some territories of New Russia was completed. It gradually developed into a full-scale war with the West, in which, in fact, the terrorist Nazi regime of Kiev itself plays only an instrumental role.
An attempt to besiege it and liberate a number of territories of New Russia controlled by the Ukrainian Nazis, keeping the existing geopolitical balance of power in the world unchanged, as a technical operation failed, and pretending that we just continue the SMO - somewhere on the fringes of attention of the audience – it's just pointless.
Against our will, we are now at war, and this applies to every citizen of Russia: each of us is in the eyes of the enemy, terrorist, sniper.
At the same time, the situation is such that, taking into account all parameters, it is impossible to return everything to the initial conditions that prevailed by February 24, 2022.
What has happened is irreversible and we should not even worry about any concessions or compromises on our part. The enemy will only accept complete surrender, enslavement, dislocation, occupation. So we just don't have a choice.
The end of SMO means the need for deep transformations of the entire political and social system of modern Russia – turning the country into a military base – in politics, economy, culture and the information sphere.
SMO could remain important, but not the only content of Russian public life. War with the West subjugates everything.
Ideological front
Russia found itself in a state of ideological war. The values espoused by the globalized West – LGBT, legalization of perversions, drugs, the fusion of man and machine, full integration during uncontrolled immigration, etc. – are inextricably linked to military-political hegemony and its unipolar system.
Western liberalism and the global military-political and economic dominance of the US and NATO are one and the same. Fighting with the West and accepting (even partially) its values, in the name of which it is waging a war against us, a war of annihilation, is simply absurd.
Television and the media in general should become instruments of patriotic mobilization in wartime. Cooperation on the front must also exist on the internal front. It has already started slowly, but for now it only affects a small part of the TV channels. But it should be extended everywhere.
Culture, information, education, enlightenment, politics, social sphere: all must work in unison for war, that is, for victory.
Economy
Each sovereign state can issue as much national currency as it needs. If it is really dominant. War with the West makes no sense when you continue to play economic games by its own rules.
Only a war economy can be dominant.
For the victory must be spent what is necessary. It is only necessary to ensure that the sums are collected in a special fund for strategic purposes. Corruption in such circumstances should be equated with a war crime.
War and comfort are incompatible. Comfort as a goal, as a reference point in life, must be abandoned. Only nations prepared for hardship can win real wars.
In these situations there is always a new breed of economists whose goal is to save the state, especially this one. Doctrines, schools, methods and approaches are secondary factors.
We can call such an economy a mobilization economy or simply a war economy.
Our allies
In any war, the role of allies is extremely important. Today Russia does not have so many, but they do exist. First of all, we are talking about those countries that reject the Western liberal unipolar order.
They are the supporters of multipolarity such as China, Iran, North Korea, Serbia, Syria, Central African Republic, Mali, but also, to some extent, India, Turkey, some Islamic, African and Latin American countries ( especially Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela)
For their activation, all available resources must be mobilized, not only professional diplomacy, but also popular diplomacy, and for this again ideology is needed.
We must convince our allies that we have decided to make an irreversible break with globalization and Western hegemony and that we are ready to go all the way to building a multipolar world. Here we must be consistent and decisive.
The time for wavering and compromise is over. The West's war against Russia divides humanity on different sides of the barricades.
Spiritual factor
At the heart of the global confrontation that has begun is the spiritual, religious aspect. Russia is at war with an anti-religious culture that fights God and subverts the very foundations of spiritual and moral values: God, the Church, the family, sex, man.
With all the differences between Orthodoxy, traditional Islam, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism, all religions and the cultures built on them recognize the divine truth, the high spiritual and moral dignity of man, honoring traditions and institutions – the state, the family, the community.
The modern West has done away with all of this, replacing it with virtual reality, extreme individualism, gender destruction, universal surveillance, a totalitarian "abolition culture," a post-truth society.
Open Satanism and outright racism flourish in Ukraine and the West only supports them.
We are dealing with what the orthodox elders call the "culture of the Antichrist" . Therefore, Russia's role is to unite believers of different faiths in this decisive battle.
You must not wait for the universal enemy to destroy your home, kill your husband, son or daughter... At some point it will be too late. God forbid we live to see such a moment.
The enemy attack in the Kharkiv region is just that: the beginning of a real war by the West against us. The West is showing its intention to launch a war of extermination against us – World War III.
We must muster all our deepest national potential to repel this attack. By all means: thought, military force, economy, culture, art, internal mobilization of all state structures and each of us".