[AnAmericanAbroad]

You need to understand neo-Eurasianism, which seems to be, more or less, the guiding philosophy behind what we’re seeing now.

As an example:

The book (The Foundations of Geopolitics) stresses the “continental Russian-Islamic alliance” which lies “at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy”. The alliance is based on the “traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilization”.

Iran is a key ally. The book uses the term “Moscow-Tehran axis”.

Armenia has a special role and will serve as a “strategic base” and it is necessary to create “the [subsidiary] axis Moscow-Erevan-Teheran”. Armenians “are an Aryan people ... [like] the Iranians and the Kurds”.

Azerbaijan could be “split up” or given to Iran.

Georgia should be dismembered. Abkhazia and “United Ossetia” (which includes Georgia’s South Ossetia) will be incorporated into Russia. Georgia’s independent policies are unacceptable.

Amongst other things.

‘The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia’ is a geopolitical book by Alexander Dugin. The book has had a large influence within the Russian military, police, and statist foreign policy elites and is used as a textbook in the General Staff Academy of Russian military.

I seriously believe that Dugin’s ideas - and those of the neo-Eurasianists - are the guiding ideology of Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

[himno hero]

Thank you for helping to explain what I witness.

[himno hero]

I have to ask why would the Russians want to ally with the second most backwards people on the planet?

My grandmother , a german, used to give her husband periodic hell and in that scolding it was punctuated with “thinking like that you sill always be a stupid Russian”.

I’m thinking, in retrospect, she knew far more than she let on!

[boxlunch]

Thank you for an enlightening post. It certainly fits with what we are seeing.

[MarMema]

I was hoping Dugyn had faded to the sidelines by now.

He is one evil pos.