Aleksandr Dugin is the most famous political philosopher in Russia. His ideas are considered so dangerous the Ukrainian government murdered his daughter, and Amazon won’t sell his books. Tucker Carlson talked to him in Moscow.
Watching this interview while sitting in a kitchen in Russia is a little odd, however, what Dugin explains does seem to lineup with my perspective as an American in Russia. The explanation for why leftists (progressives) in the USA seemingly reversed their entire worldview about Russia in a decade does seem to make sense.
I have shared that modern Russian social society is much more traditional than the expressed Western value system you find embodied in progressives. Russia is far more nationalistic and less globalist; meanwhile, the USA has moved far closer to globalism and is less nationalistic. Within this shift, the change in democracy also reconciles.
As Dugin notes, Western democracy is no longer about the majority of the citizens; the national identity has been erased in favor of governing rules by a minority. The commonality of sex (two genders) has been erased in favor of multiple-gender identity, expanded individualism, which is simply a reflection of the fractured bond of commonality. It is an interesting conversation. WATCH:
It should be noted before people in the USA and English speaking “West” start running around with romantic images of Russia, that the Russian people do not think about such issues… AT ALL. The average Russian thinks about social politics about as much as the average American, which is to say – not much at all.
However, all of that said, someone asked me about COVID-19 in Russia and what was the general sensibility of the issue. I have had some rather fascinating discussions thanks to that question.
I never thought I would find a population more cynical about COVID-19, the “pandemic of ’20/’21” and the vaccine protocol than Americans on average. I was wrong. In my conversations with Russians about it, the average person in Russia was far more cynical than the average American.
I’m not sure why, but a larger than 50% group of the Russian people did not buy into the fear and hype. From the conversations I have encountered, more than half the population didn’t trust the claims by the Western medical establishment.
Additionally, fewer than half the population of Russia appear to have accepted the vaccine. We are told the vaccine compliance rate for the first injection in the USA was around 65 to 70%. It does not seem like 70% of Russians took the vaccine; it seems that Russia had a much lower compliance rate based on responses to the question.
I’m not exactly sure why the biggest segment of the Russian population didn’t fall for the COVID-19 pandemic hype; perhaps their cynicism against “institutions” of a totalitarian state helped them on this subject, I don’t know. However, the most frequent response is the average Russian just didn’t believe COVID-19 was as dangerous as the various health agencies were saying it was.
The government of Russia pushed the vaccine, perhaps not as aggressively as the USA and other Western countries, but they did push it hard. However, it appears much less than half the population followed the govt advice.
I’ll have more later on some granular Russian dynamics as they appear to present.
It really is bizarre being here in Russia. There are zero Western tourists or travelers in this country. The only tourists and/or foreigners Russia has seen for over two years are all from Asia (mostly China). When the average Russian hears my American voice speaking English, the immediate reaction is shock, followed by extreme curiosity – it’s wild.
There’s nothing to be fearful about or worried about. Everywhere seems to be safe, orderly and exceptionally well cultured; maybe even a little annoyingly so. The polite and unwritten social rules are followed by everyone with a general compliance unlike anything I can remember seeing in the USA. Everything from how you cross the street to obeying social standards on subway travel is extraordinarily polite and mannerly; factually it’s a little weird.
Do not romanticize Russia in your mind’s-eye; there are major issues here, and the quality of life in the average USA neighborhood is much higher. However, on the cultural part of polite social norms, most Russian social life is like a step back into the 1950’s USA with perhaps a bigger dose of visible counter-culture evident.
The USA boomer generation would recognize the shallow coldness behind the eyes of Russians who avoid eye contact and appear to be task oriented in life. Oddly, if you grew up as a USA Gen-Xer, socially current Russia is probably more like the place of your fond memories, and going to a large shopping mall is like stepping back in time 30 years. If, however, you have a gen-Z or ‘zoomer’ in the familial crew, they would think modern social Russia is backwards and too regimented.
From what I can tell, those Western (generational) viewpoints are entirely due to the speed of transition that Dugin notes from the rising of Vladimir Putin to the leadership of Russia.
There ain’t no welcoming room for Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Cass Sunstein, Samantha Power and/or any of the progressive crew here. Russian patriotism is probably at the highest generational point in a long time, and I doubt President Putin is going to miss the opportunity to perma-ban all the Western corporations that exited Russia after the sanctions came along.
The reality of the Western sanction regime is really going to take an entire series of articles to explain. T-mobile cell phone service works here (go figure, no blocks at all), as long as you don’t interface your device with Russian internet wifi, which is really funny.
Yes, you can connect to all the banned Western stuff through the cell phone network (value of a yellow phone in Russia), and simultaneously you can connect and access all of the banned stuff the USA government controls and stops Americans from seeing/using if you have a grey zone originating phone and cell phone number. lolol
It really is bizarre how an individual person can operate, in this fragmented communication world, once they teach themselves the tools and techniques. Perhaps the most stunningly obvious difference between Yellow and Grey – anyone with a passport can open a bank account in Russia. The RU banks even have their computers set up to plug in to your device and upload apps, because the Apple/Google app stores don’t permit it (sanctions).
There is a lengthy learning curve, but it is well worth the time figuring out how to navigate the financial matrix the West has constructed. The sanctions against Russia are stunningly irrelevant, and were not designed to keep Russia out of the western financial system. The Sanctions were created to keep Americans, Canadians, AU/NZ, Japan and EU locked into the West.
Was in Russia in the early 70’s when it was the USSR. It was interesting then and no doubt more so now. Would like to see afew things again.
As far as covid, an obvious fraud from week 3, I don’t comprehend how anybody fell for it.
Didn’t get the shots, nor will I.
I’m not sure if there’s any real way of knowing, but I suspect that the vaccine compliance rate in the US was also much, much lower than advertised, with a steep drop-off from 1st dose to nth dose. I think this is what prompted the vaccine mandates.
Russian skepticism makes a lot of sense because I’m sure they view everything coming out of official Western sources with suspicion. Good for them.
I believe you are right. They said that to make us seem like weirdos.
It was definitely a drop of from dose 1 onward. But dose 1 fooled a ton of people. Not myself, but people in my inner circle I begged not to get it, got it. And I posted regularly on all the results. 25 of them! either got myocarditis or cancer. And three strokes in the bunch. 90% of them under 44 years old.
I told my best friend of 38 years just the other day that I’m worried he’s gonna drop out of the blue. And he agrees. Staunch conservative that fell for the covid hype. Guy always had health issues. Got myocarditis after the shot, and now complains of all kinds of random ailments. 43 years old. Played soccer through college and semi pro.
The first round of the shot fooled way too many people.
I had a very similar experience. Two close friends, in particular, really broke my heart.
Both were apparently fooled by the gradual rollout. They were excited for the opportunity to *finally* receive their very own poison death shots. You’d think they had won the lottery!
After the first few months the initial gaslighting wore thin, so the Branch Covidians and their dancing TikTok nurses resorted to badgering, shaming and dangling free prizes.
How could anybody have been so gullible?
They were fooled by a sinister sales concept called the scarcity principle. It works just like we saw… Tell everybody that ‘there aren’t enough vaccines to go around’ And talk about eligibility as if it’s some kind of special privilege to get vaccinated.. and people push to the front of the line.! I have a whole chapter on this point in my 2020 book- ‘The Tyranny of Masks.’ bit.ly/3oJrJX6
I know of a family that actually flew to another state to “push to the front of the line.” They just couldn’t wait their “turn!”
Fortunately, I immediately recognized their ‘bums rush’ sales pitch. I wanted absolutely no part of it.
I don’t know why, but as I was reading your comment, an old Twilight Zone episode – “To Serve Man” – came to mind. Very much the same concept in that episode.
Ask Adam and Eve.
They walked daily with the Creator of the universe, and then a snake showed up and put a little doubt in their minds.
And here we are.
Not criticizing them. I would have done the same thing.
It did not fool everyone that took it. Many had to choose between their job and taking the shot. That can be a very difficult choice if you have a family to support. I have two grandchildren attending their dream college. A “so called prestigious” Ivy. The university president demanded proof of shots 1 and 2 or they can not attend. My daughter and I agonized over that decision for days. She and the two grandchildren finally decided they would get the shots against my recommendations. Fortunately, neither one has experienced any negative effects yet. But who knows what awaits them in the future, or their children, or their children’s children, etc.
I also had children in college who filed religious exemptions, and they eventually prevailed, but not without a fight. So I know how stressful that was for your grandchildren, and I’m so sorry your family had to go through it.
President Trump once tweeted, “BULLIES DON’T FIGHT.” You see, when bullies are challenged they back down.
I demanded everything in writing. With pushback, the religious exemptions were granted. They had to be, there is Constitutional precedent for rejecting medical procedures under freedom of religion.
These people had no legal standing to force *experimental* injections on anybody. All they had was coercion, a game of who will blink first. Despicable!
God helped us through it. I can’t stress it enough: We can’t possibly fight this level of evil without Him.
Obvious fraud from day one, the datum never made sense. We never bought it at all.
I do not know where you live but in my area – big democratic majority – is that relevant? I don’t know – but in my area the people who got injected were very vocal and proud about it and very vocal about how anybody who didn’t were, you know, killing their grandmother or whomever.
Those who did not get injected spoke in whispers and did not confront those who did.
And have not since all the adverse reactions, which are affecting the injected people, are becoming public.
I mean – you just can’t if you have any pity for those who did not realize it was a fraud (my term was “hoax”), who were very frightened, who listened to the propaganda and to their doctor, who thought if they got the flu it was all over for them.
I don’t speak out to chastise people who fell for the “hoax.” I speak out against “poison death shots” on behalf of all the innocent children who remain squarely in the crosshairs of Big Harma.
I always say I’m fighting for my children and grandchildren who are yet to be born. We must confront this evil for *their* sake.
BY ORDER OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS!
Sundance, I hope and I believe you know about this.
Yuri Bezmenov- a former KGB agent who, when he realized that what he had been working for, communism, was wrong, defected in 1970.
He warned us (many videos on the internet about it) about how the globalist communists had a plan to use the arrogant, self centered American ‘elite’ IDIOTS 😡 🤬 to bring the United States down. He described the plan as a four stage plan. He did NOT lie, he WARNED us. If you look at the videos about it on the internet (easy, just type in his name on your search engine and check out the videos), you can see how some of the stages have been completed by the ‘elites’ (including indoctrination in schools and colleges) and we are now living in the final stage before a complete globalist communist dictatorship.
After he defected, he changed his name to Tomas Schuman in order to make it harder for the KGB to hunt him down and kill him.
In addition to the many interviews he participated in, he also wrote several warning books, the most famous one was named ‘Love Letter to America’. He wrote it as Tomas Schuman.
He warned us that even if the Soviet Union came down (it did, the people who loved freedom destroyed it ⚡🔥, you know that, Sundance.), the arrogant self centered United States ‘elites’ would continue to try to bring the country down to turn it into a communist, globalist dictatorship run by stupid, arrogant ‘elites’.
2011: Former KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov Explains Our Four Stages – “The New Normal”…
– The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
Yuri!
The Gipper Lives, thank you for confirming Sundance knows about Yuri Bezmenov 😃! Sundance posted that here years before I started coming here. Thank you!
YW!
Ha ha ha, That’s what China has been doing too, and now it’s right in your face, if you use TicTok. Will never use it, never have and never will
I have seen a few videos of him, Inwish he had been given more publicity as what he said needed to be heard and listened to
He wasn’t given more publicity because the SEE I A and other ‘agencies’ didn’t want anyone to know that they were already part of the Communist Party in the USA.
Which is why he was not given more publicity.
The “news” media has been corrupt for decades.
Welcome to the MAGAHOOD.
Yuri is dead. Maobama isn’t.
Dear Mr. Dugin,
As an American, I’m sorry to hear of your child’s assassination at the hands of
a reprobate Congress, an Evil Empire State Department, a Washington DC Regime of Occupation and a wicked CIA Death Cult with their NAZI AlliesISIS-K.Sincerely,
The Ukronazis celebrated that depravity.
They’ve sealed their fates in so many ways.
Russia/USSR kills thousands of priests and burns thousands of churches: Western left loves USSR!
Russia/RF recruits thousands of priests and builds thousands of churches: Western left hates Russia!
Sure there’s no connection. . .
After the cold war, finance went east, ideology went west.
Easy money for managerial apparatchiks.
(apparatus of the state)
Marshall, I have pointed this out to many people- family, friends and coworkers.
That the DEMONRATS used to love Russia when it was part of the Soviet Union communist dictatorship. I have also pointed out that when the Soviet Union collapsed because people who loved freedom crushed the Soviet Union, the DEMONRATS freaked out because it showed people who love freedom can crush the tyranny they are trying to impose on us.
That is why the DEMONRATS went from loving Russia to “Oh, oh, oh, Russia, Russia, Russia, evil, evil, evil!” They call it evil because it turned its back on a communist dictatorship like the one the DEMONRATS want to impose here. The DEMONRATS are the real evil ones, not us.
And today is ‘Mayday’. Who do you know is dancing around a Maypole?
I know of plenty brawling about flagpoles.
Putin and the Russians are Apostates of Marxism. Apostates, those who had but then rejected the faith, are the most hated of non-believers. Our Progs are the faithful of Marxism.
And thank the sniveling backstabbing Republicans for forwarding the Demonrat agenda. 🤬
And thank the sniveling backstabbing Republicans for furthering the Demonrat agenda.
Democrats are scum. Nobody is debating that conclusion. However, you seem to romanticize the late Soviet era—those tumultuous years of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In truth, the Russian Communist regime that ran the country unopposed for decades simply hit the wall of fiscal reality, running out of other people’s money to the extent that ordinary people struggled to buy enough food to feed their families. It was more a ‘hungry rebellion’ [Rus: голодный бунт] than anything else. The idea of freedom seemed more of an afterthought in that scenario—if it was considered at all. Desperate economic conditions and basic survival took precedence over any lofty ideals of liberty or democratic reform. Hunger and immediate needs overshadowed the pursuit of freedom, rendering it almost irrelevant in the daily struggles of the people.
Just for a second, consider the case of heavily armed Americans, arguably the best-armed populace globally, who have not taken any action against the criminals in Washington D.C. Why? Because we are still relatively comfortable. A widespread revolt is unlikely when the general population’s basic needs are met and people have access to comforts that many elsewhere can only dream of. We are complaining from a position of privilege, while our rights are being slowly eroded and taken from us. That’s the insidious nature of incrementalism.
And Putin openly embraces the RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH and talks about preserving Christian values!!! 🤔
Yes. And families paid for having extra children. Days dedicated to Christianity and patriots. And monuments to veterans all over. (Read about the “Motherland” one that makes the Statue of Liberty look like a toy — and was astonished that I had never heard of it….along with the largest Buddha in Europe.)
There’s a reason China is never mentioned, while everyone who disagrees with the DS is a “Russian puppet.”
Am surprised that Dugin did not capture the intrinsic, Marxist weaponization of the ‘new liberal’ rhetoric and politics.
“The issue is never the issue: The issue is always the Revolution.” There is a long, consistent line from Lenin, down through Yuri Bezmenov, that is crystal clear on the intent and methodology of an utterly ruthless, self-selected minority to acquire power and rule, at all costs. As Uncle Joe Stalin once said, one “…must break a few eggs, to make an omelet.”
The Russian cynicism that mentally screened their government COVID blather is probably just a cultural memory of a much older, totalitarian BS-meter. David Satter’s observations and understanding are very helpful here.
My 2 cents.
Question SD, did Russia block ivermectin .
Apparently Israel did. I saw a video where Dr Vladimir Zelenko chided the Israeli Ministry of Health for preventing the Israeli people from receiving the same lifesaving medications he had prescribed to world leaders like Netanyahu.
The doctor said, in effect, why do you promote “poison death shots” but prevent the Israeli people from receiving lifesaving treatments like HCQ and Ivermectin?
https://rumble.com/vkqs1o-dr.-zelenko-schools-israeli-rabbinic-court..html
Yup, I remember watching this a couple times when first published.
Rabbis are not running Israel. The national security establishment does.
I confirm. Dr. Z was a great man.
Video URL:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KaFJBJq0L3yR/
Judith, often I use the phrase “poison death shot” and realize it is because I heard the turn of phrase listening to Dr. Vladimir Zelenko.
This Times of Israel story about Dr. Z’s communication with President Trump is interesting until one reaches the subsection “Conspiracy Theories”, at which point, I stopped reading:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-smart-to-use-malaria-drug-says-jewish-md-a-long-time-proponent/
I miss him. Dr Vladimir Zelenko, may he rest in peace.
The world is ruled by demons. Thank God Jesus Christ delivers us believers from this present evil age.
I’ve been very busy and not been here much but had no idea Sundance was in Russia, is there a blog article about the trip? You haven’t moved there have you?
SD is visiting there temporarily on a research / sightseeing trip.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/04/21/well-outside-the-wire-a-non-pretending-discussion/
‘The Sanctions were created to keep Americans, Canadians, AU/NZ, Japan and EU locked into the West.”
Some observe:
Could that be because the West is being steered down toward the planned end state?
To be fenced-in vassals serving the rising de facto hegemon-to-be with the anodyne title “multi-polar global governance” stealth-led by China?
Vassals are ruled locally by iron-fist satraps. Notice the moves by the West toward totalitarianism under global control (UN, WHO)? Does it also seem that satraps may already be in place, under cover of “national security”, behind the elderpuppet regime?
On the shots: Didn’t Russia shun the mod-RNA shots in favor of Sputnik V? As China also shunned them in favor of several non-mod-RNA shots? Has the significance of this dawned on treepers yet, in light of the mounting evidence of grave harm and lack of benefit of the mod-RNA shots?
One of many glimpses of the harm to date:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/for-every-life-saved-mrna-vaccines-caused-nearly-14-times-more-deaths-study-5579794?src_src=epochHG&src_cmp=CFP
Don’t miss German pathologist Arne Burkhardt explaining immunohistochemistry conclusively illuminating the shot-induced spike pathologies:
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/arne-burkhardt-interview-12-23-23/
But don’t look now, the long-term harms may dwarf those already seen short-term:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/health-canada-asked-pfizer-dna-fragments-size-covid-shots-linked-probability-genomic
Yes – the DNA fragments in the mod-RNA shots evidently get into the cell nucleus and may cause all kinds of problems including cancer, as well as integrating to the genome with unknown consequences for generations. They failed to tell you that when they coerced or fooled you to take the experimental genetic manipulation shot? Do you think the shot-makers didn’t know it?
What about “informed consent”, a requirement of all medical ethics as well as the Nuremberg Code? Can’t be informed when information is withheld, can we?
And don’t forget the US censorship, propaganda, suppression of ivermectin and other safe effective mitigations, and unlawful mod-RNA shot MANDATES. All for a virus about as hazardous as seasonal flu. Put it all together with the Russian and Chinese avoidance of the mod-RNA shots, and…the fencing off of the vassals-to-be…you connect the dots.
I try to keep it simple. Time is valuable.
propaganda
https://jonathanturley.org/2012/05/20/propaganda-101-what-you-need-to-know-and-why-or/
censorship
https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/false-neutrality-center-for-democracy-and-technology-admits-political-orientation-of-censorship-partners-cannot-shift/
For having fooled my parents, including my Mom, who spent her entire career as a care giver, as a Nurse, and having taken away the informed consent of my daughters, including a minor child, and coerced many contemporaries, at least one who has ‘passed suddenly’, and vast majority of the global population, except for those who had exemptions, or were given the placebo, here is intent:
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise
All violated the Nuremberg Code.
These people cannot be allowed to get away with this without consequences in this lifetime.
I see the Boomerang coming back on the Con-9 jab fright fest artists. Its about to come into your awareness that this is already happening.
Most everyone I know and love swallowed the terrible plague pill and then when I didn’t, they told me I was selfish and didn’t care about others for not taking it. I’m still moving through that pain.
Think that some of the stupidest, or conversely the most evil intended persons known to mankind so far, were all in for this gig to reduce the human population.
At this late hour, I figure I’m going to personally try to give comfort and aid to those who fell for the propraganda, but only if they ask for it.
Live and let live.
Thanks. Have been researching and thinking for awhile now that the whole deal against Russia is that it is white, Christian, and nationalist — all positive qualities the globalists want to stomp out here.
That was THE SADDEST and SCARIEST 20 minute interview I have EVER WATCHED!
I found it fascinating that he pointed to the movies that Hollywood puts out but we didn’t ‘get’ that they will be erasing our humanity when we watched them. I just figured they wanted to kill us; NOT strip away our humanity, but according to Dugin, this has been the evil one’s GOAL all along! There is nothing else they hope to achieve after taking away our human-ness….they’ve accomplished their goal. Utopia!
And Dugan see’s no escape from this.
THIS is why the demons hate Putin so much! Because he’s a traditionalist!
And we are now here!
What about God? Everyone fails to put him in the equation.
Mr. Dugin pointed out that there are no, zero, movies extolling anything ‘human’. Large families, enjoying life, working together for the benefit of the future human beings is not possible in ‘the west’.
What are the English language books by Aleksandr Dugin that Amazon refuses to sell?
Are there others who do sell these books?
If we walk away from humanism we walk away from God. Throw in AI and what could go wrong. Attacking nationalism and individual freedom comes from a very dark place.
The Book of Revelation reveals a time when Lucifer gets his moment to have his way with people on earth. That moment will be brief, but many, actually the majority, will be deceived into following his path to their doom.
We are also given hope, in that those *few,* who faithfully follow the word of God, will walk with Him through the fire to their eternal salvation.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I not only plan to follow God’s (narrow) path, I plan to take other “lost sheep” along who might need a little nudge. Or a kick in the rear. Whichever works!
I believe this is our calling as Christians.
For the past couple of years, Glenn Beck has been ‘warning’ about Mr. Dugin. He claims he is a very dangerous man, and he was saying this long before Tucker Carson’s interview.
I’ve listened to this interview, and I’m failing to see the ‘danger’.
What am I missing?
If you know something Glenn Beck is peddling, that’s what you are missing
Every voice that would so coerce us should have all their control mechanisms exposed for all the world to see.
Ben Gleck is a bombastic moron.
A grudge, really.
Just as some find it insane that the US has changed so rapidly, they cannot comprehend other countries and cultures changing as well.
I find the conversation and the theory Dugin surmises fascinating but rather dark. My question is if one believes in a benevolent, supreme, omnipotent being, what makes her/him think that He (God) would allow this post-humanism theory to happen?
Maybe because we don’t appreciate God’s sacrifice for us?
You might be correct but God acts for good regardless of what we humans do or think.
Being exhorted to oppose evil presupposes a personal responsibility that is independent of our hopes that God will prevent such horrors.
They are being engineered and sans our voices in opposition are all the more likely to come to pass.
I would suspect apathy born of assigning all responsibility to act to God might itself earn the condemnation that the chaos portended actually comes to pass.
You do not think that God is actively participating in this world regardless of what humans do?
Didn’t say that.
Said what we do or don’t do could well be the qualifiers as to what is allowed to transpire.
We have responsibilities and obligations, I’ll be the last to declare I know Heaven’s will in such weighty matters, I simply feel to resist any sense of comfort that we will be spared such troubles without mighty efforts on our own parts.
I pray every day that we will be spared and blessed, I do not believe it is in vain, but I assure you there is real pleading involved.
Because God created us with free will.
You can raise a child with love and a good moral foundation, but when the child grows up, he makes his own choices.
That is what our Heavenly Father has done for us.
He respects our right to make our own choices.
Fascinating eye-opening anecdotes, Sundance — thank you!
Too bad you’re not a multi-millionaire and able to have brought along a documentary filming crew with you …
Sundance gets the first check when I hit the lottery.
Fascinating interview.
Glenn Beck — who has been terrified of Dugin’s philosophy for years — says that although he correctly identifies and understands the sources of the the now rapid decline of the West in general, and America in particular, Dugin’s desired apocalyptic solution is pretty much wiping out most of the human race and starting over.
I don’t know anything else about Dugin than what I’ve heard here and what Beck has said over the years.
Beck has interviewed Ray Kurzweil more than once. Dugin is pointing out the obvious just like Solzhenitsyn and Yuri Bezmenov before him warned us.
How is embracing traditionalism and adhering to Orthodoxy an apocalyptic solution?
He must be hitting the Cheetos again.
I think I read that Russia had its own Covid vaccine, called Sputnik. I’ve wondered whether it was mRNA based and as dangerous as the western vaccines. I hope not.
It wasn’t modRNA, I think they’re good.
Thank you Sundance for posting this profound interview. Alexandr Dugin is right about the progression of liberalism into nothing. Our own Robert Bork explained in the 1990s in Slouching Towards Gomorrah that liberalism because of its individualism and egalitarianism led inexorably to the dissolution of society.
Tell us more about your experiences in Russia, we need to avoid WW3.
Dear Sundance,
Thank you for your fantastic and enlightening travel journal. It seems like “soul food” to me. Please keep them coming.
Some have observed Dugin’s apparent pessimism about the prospects for a Western return to morality, sanity, and basic liberty.
Others may observe this as pragmatic realism.
The metastasis in the US continues. For example:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/employers-must-honor-preferred-pronouns-bathrooms-employees-identifying-transgender-feds
Step by step, piece by piece, the oppression regime is built.
But this version of oppression only affects the West. The rest of the world is not being sunk by forced gender delusion, or forced DEI destruction of competencies, or forced climate delusion with energy/economy asphyxiation, or forced public health delusion with medical tyranny and attrition.
Certainly not Russia or China, the two nations allying to form the foundation for BRICS+ rising to usurp the fading US hegemony.
The global picture couldn’t be clearer.
It all boils down to industry and associated STEM: The US lost its post-WWII strength, China is the new rising power now joining with rising Russia. And all the above metastases reinforce and further drive the fall of the US.
Is this downfall “nudged” by a concerted veiled effort, or simply the result of the West becoming weak on its own? Probably both, originally starting with self-weakening and now also nudged.
PS – if you have insight into the US education system, you will see that the degradation and dilution is thorough there, reinforced by DEI, there is no way the US will regain STEM dominance.
PPS – it is said that making war without industry is an oxymoron. What does this bode for the US now?
I am absolutely opposed to ‘banning’ Dugin’s books, or any books for that matter. In fact, if anyone, including Tucker, took the time to actually read them, they’d understand his true nature.
What I find a bit alarming is that many patriotic Americans often fail to distinguish between the type of nationalism espoused here—whether it’s called America First or MAGA—and the ethnocentric nationalism prevalent in many European countries like France, Germany, Italy, or Russia. Their blend of ethnic supremacy theories and socialism is fundamentally different from America First or classic American exceptionalism. Therefore, figures like Dugin or France’s Marine Le Pen should not be viewed as our ‘natural allies.’ They are, in essence, National Socialists and fascists, or as I call them, Democrats in drag.
D’accord . . . 🙄
Thank you SD.
Hey Sundance. We adopted children from Russia 20 years ago. Our facilitator took us to what he called the “mall”. It was more like a flea market with booths selling one particular type of item, such as children’s coats. There was an exchange booth to exchange American dollars for Rubles since they did not hold their value even overnight. Have you seen a difference now?
Family was not as big of a deal then. Almost a million children were in orphanages and Russians did not usually adopt them. We saw a few kids around, mostly unsupervised, with young pre-teen kids drinking a beverage wrapped in brown paper and smoking cigarettes. We did not often see families. There was some national outrage about an American adoption gone wrong and they shut down foreign adoptions a few years later. I am so glad to hear that families and kids have made a comeback!
I think vaccine compliance is a function of personality types as is political affiliation. The mind your own business crowd vs let’s build community crowd. My dad used to say it always about money in the end which is a representation of power. I found it to true and therefore I live as a skeptic and unvaccinated.
In my experience, the “let’s build community” crowd are folks who are afraid to think for themselves.
Not that I am against a voluntary community of like minded folks pursuing a common goal, but each individual in that group needs to be able and willing to think for himself.
There is no such thing as “community salvation” no matter what Obama may think.
We are created, live and die as individuals.
Mid-80s I was in a Philippine surf camp, mostly Aussies and a couple Americans like myself
Aussies were fearful and convinced Ronnie Raygun was going to start thermonuclear war, citing his “Star Wars” weapons program
I’d tell them “No- he’s just presenting a tough front as a negotiating strategy”
But they were unswayed
Remember, this is when the worldwide Leftists were slobbering all over Sting for his song “The Russians Love Their Children Too”, totally sympathetic and totally anti-American (including American Leftists)
Not long after, the Soviet Union collapsed economically, couldn’t keep up with the arms race with the US
Now, our Leftist gummint is trying to convince us Russia and Putin are Satan and have world conquest as a chief objective
Leftists sure are fickle
Kinda stupid, as well
“Now, our Leftist gummint is trying to convince us Russia and Putin are Satan and have world conquest as a chief objective
Leftists sure are fickle
Kinda stupid, as well”
Some suggest:
Above all, leftists seem to be collective-minded. To a fault.
And it seems that the leftist collective mind of the West, including gummint apparatchiks, is being steered to steer the West down. A “managed decline”, or perhaps a “controlled demolition”.
As the other powers rise (gray on map). On real industry. Everything is dependent on industry, thus the deindustrializing West sinks into dependence, debt, and impotence as BRICS+ rises.
That’s the real global power shift underway. And the leftist collective of the West is working to reinforce it, by ruses including:
DEI, CRT
LGBT insanity
Climate Emergency
Public Health Emergency
Mass immigration
Russia = evil
As the media flood keeps us occupied and manipulated, the real tectonics are underway moving the West closer to an ignominious end state.
Back to Russia: What if the main objectives of the Ukraine conflict were:
Turn global opinion against the US.
Accelerate the end of the dollar hegemony.
Add to US debt.
Deplete US/NATO weaponry while demonstrating weaknesses.
Enable Russia (and China and Iran by extension) to develop superior military capabilities based on actual battlefield testing.
Stoke fear and anxiety in the US/EU by all the above.
And last but not least – maybe:
Move toward a global conflict providing for the last chapter: Turning the US Bloc into totalitarian vassals with sovereign debt “reset”, after the new military-industrial reality manifests in defeat.
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And what if the US and Russia (and China) were actually partners in working this plan, behind the scenes?
Many things imply this.
We should not forget that global powers have sacrificed millions pursuing power. Including their own citizens. Many times in history. So the idea that Russia would sacrifice their own men in Ukraine for much larger goals such as moving the US toward final vassal condition is not so far-fetched.
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The adage: “Making war without industry is an oxymoron.” Which are stronger now – US Bloc, or Russia-China?
How else can everything turn out?
IMO, I think we should take it as a good thing that Russia’s culture has so clearly recovered from its time as the USSR. If their culture can recover to this degree, so can ours. And we need to make sure that it does.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. We need to stop being so dang stoic and start making entertainment. Hollywood is falling apart because they have had no real competition in decades. There is a vacuum that needs to be filled. Capture peoples’ imaginations and make them want a good future again.
As always, appreciate your sight and analysis
I don’t believe that 70% of our population got the vaxx either. Maybe it’s regional. I knew a handful of people here in Texas who swallowed the fear bait hook line and sinker, but most people were just seemed irritated and annoyed by it