[dennisw]

Aleksandr Dugin is a rabid dog and is called an academic in Russia.

[Ebenezer]

“Academic” would have also been used in Nazi Germany to describe Joseph Goebbels who had a Ph.D. in Philology.

[Sons of Union Vets]

Philosophically, Dugin is an advocate of the neo-gnostic, neo-pagan "Traditionalist School" co-founded by Rene Guenon, Ananda Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon.

Coomaraswamy had ties to Aleister Crowley while Crowley was living in New York City in 1916.

https://traditionalistblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/coomaraswamy-and-crowley.html

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Dugin is a particularly avid disciple of Traditionalist Julius Evola who was a Nazi sympathizer and advocare of "pagan imperialism" which forms the underpinnings for Dugin's "Eurasian agenda" whose motto is "from Dublin to Vladivostock."

Like Evola, Dugin has also been involved with magic and the occult.

IMHO, Putin might do well to focus on the neo-nazis in his own back yard instead of embarking on fishing expeditions for "Nazis" in Ukraine and elsewhere.