Interesting. Dugin says Putin’s ambition to reclaim the post-Soviet space is purely geopolitical, not religious (spiritual/cultural). If fully true, that would mean that Putin’s religious rationale (faith) is a pretense, a front.

That, like communist leader Stalin during WWII, the rallying call and evocation of “Holy Mother Russia” or “Holy Rus” is merely a hijacking, manipulation and abuse of religion to marshal the moral and spiritual forces of the motherland for a false cause: the rebirth of imperial socialism/communism under the guise of global polarity (divide and conquer…the New World Order, or hijacked West)?

This would possibly help answer a question: is ex-Soviet KGB leader Putin fulfilling Anatoly Golitsyn’s warning in “New Lies for Old” that the (supposed?) fall of the Soviet empire – along with Perestroika and Glasnost – was part of a great, grand deception (in the face of an economically failing empire) that would lead to great national security errors of judgment by the West?

That, as the Virgin Mary said at Fatima and also possibly contained in the mysterious “Third Secret” Russia (if Malachi Martin is to be believed in “Keys of this Blood…”) would deceive the West. Malachi Martin suggested Russia would make geo-strategic moves that would checkmate and imperil the West.

Could a combined Chinese/Russian front against the West be far behind?

But then Dugin says Putin is not an ideologue (communist) but a pure power player. Unless Putin is lying to Dugin. Well, there is no grasp of the geopolitical without the understanding of competition for (scarce?) resources and the political economy. Of course, Ukraine – the bread basket of Europe – is loaded with them: oil, gas, etc.

At the least, then, Putin is a corporate (institutional) sociopath or psychopath…amongst his peers on the global stage. Biden, Xi and Kim Jong Un for instance. The moral and spiritual animating dynamic is just that to him. A center of power to draw on to unite and sustain his people as they are used like objects to fulfill his global ambitions…a characteristic of sociopathy, or worse, the dark triad: narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy.

Food for thought as we grapple to comprehend what’s really going on.

Let me digest this…in light of the Marxists and communists that litter the illegitimate Biden Regime at all levels and pose a domestic threat to our liberties…not to mention global peace, prosperity and security.

Is Dugin the new Rasputin for the 21-st Century? How did that work out for Czar Nicholas?