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Glad you brought up this book, which I’m exerpting to highlight Russia’s completed goals
FR is better than grad school.

RE: “ The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia” -

Very prescient 1997 Russian geopolitical chess game plan.
I had often wondered why a sly Russian friend’s favorite saying was:
“All is going according to plan”, when responding to “how’s it going?” inquiry...

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Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because ““Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics”. Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible.[1]

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The book 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”.[1]

Check - *Obola facilitates, as in: “tell Vladimir I’ll have more flexibility after the election”).

“The book emphasizes that Russia must spread Anti-Americanism everywhere: “the main ‘scapegoat’ will be precisely the U.S.”
In the United States:
Russia should use its special forces within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism. For instance, provoke “Afro-American racists”. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics.”[1]

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*I’ll bet China’s wary of this Russian goal. Puzzling to see this since Russia and China conduct annual joint military invasion exercises since 1999, and China’s military has grown considerably. Keep your enemies close?

“China, which represents a danger to Russia, “must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled”. Dugin suggests that Russia start by taking Tibet-Xinjiang-Mongolia-Manchuria as a security belt.[2] Russia should offer China help “in a southern direction – Indochina (except Vietnam), the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia” as geopolitical compensatation.[1]”