[rmlew]

Or, it’s Russia annexing the Eastern part of Ukraine, with the West doing a bunch of impotent posturing. Philosophers have a tendency to see more than what is there.
Pardon? Russia didn't annex the Donbass and still hasn't . Putin rejected the idea of the Ukrainian ethnicity, said Ukraine was an artificial country, called Ukrainians the little brothers of Russians, and invaded it calling the regime Nazi. Putin's excuses were a mix of Nazi and Soviet propaganda.

[cdcdawg]

Okay, your Hitler 2.x scenario is more likely. That still doesn’t validate Dugin’s analysis.