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Are you sure? I am pretty sure that Putin's vision is grounded in Alexander Dugin's view of a multi-polar world, and that he sees Russia in essence as the center of a Slavic region different from, but not necessarily in opposition to the west, as long as the west stays in its region. As I am sure you know Russia was provoked both by the 2014 U.S. supported Banderite coup, and the later murder of thousands of Russian speaking Slavic citizens in Donbas.

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The PBS documentary, which I used as my source, was kind of biased. This bias rubbed off on my article. But at least for now, Putin's Russia is still an enemy of the US. He is an autocratic leader. There is something of a culture clash between Western values and Russian traditionalism, that part is true.

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Feb 10·edited Feb 10Liked by Hot History

No, no, no, a thousand times no. The U.S. is the process of dying from an excess of consoomerism and decadence. Putin is not an enemy he, and his favorite philosopher Alexander Dugin are great exemplars of what the multi-polar path ahead looks like. All regions of the world are in the process of re-claiming their historical roots and trying to figure out how they relate to a digital post industrial economy. This process is unstoppable, the BRICS economies are pulling ahead of the U.S./Europe/Israel economies both in terms of absolute value, and it terms of the spirit of creative innovation. Trying to maintain the hegrmony of the U.S./U.K./Israel hegemony over the world is futile, and trying to actively do so will only lead to a global war in which millions of people pointlessly die.

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