• cynesthesia [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    dugin is a liar or an idiot if that’s what he’s writing. warm water port in crimea is pretty geopolitically relevant. its got a massive land border along the populated side of russia, so obviously strategically relevant if it is filled with NATO missiles pointed at Moscow also. ‘just NATO moving closer’ is blowing off a lot of stuff.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      ‘just NATO moving closer’ is blowing off a lot of stuff.

      Good point.

      dugin is a liar or an idiot

      Probably mostly the former, is my assumption, but I can’t rule out the latter. Would make sense to perceive his book (Foundations of Geopolitics) as a mix of doctrine and russo-centrist propaganda, and his statements like that as an approach to manufacturing consent for future (at the time) invasion of Ukraine.

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          1 year ago

          Hasn’t his importance in Russia been exaggerated by western media?

          I have no idea, myself, being that his writing was purportedly used for academy curriculum, which may or may not be a partial or complete fabrication.

        • GaveUp [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          Absolutely, Western media has to shine spotlights and magnify nut cases like Dugin because the Russian government is pretty competent and generally correct in their statements when it comes to geopolitics

            • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              1 year ago

              Don’t have to like Putin to agree you need to listen when he speaks, as he delivers threats and warnings that he often is serious about and follows through with. His red lines were extremely explicit and clear, and were flagrantly crossed at many points - and he eventually pushed back as he warned he would. He is competent and makes rational moves, and he just iced the dude who tried to coup him 2 months to the day after he said he would.

    • I love how they’ve been peddling the “warm water port” thing since the cold war. Soviets were somehow always expanding in order to get that holy land of a “warm water port” and if they got it they would take over the world.

      Now it turn out that the port was in ukraine the whole time! Dummy Soviets, you should have looked in your own country!