As Gore Vidal called William F. Buckly a “crypto-Nazi”, Aris just essentially called any talk like Tucker Carlson did last week type of “crypto-Putin-supporter”. At least through the influence of what he calls Putin’s Philosopher King. Make no mistake, all his words, and more words, this is at the middle of his little thesis, or at least an important marker to maintain his own right connections on his own chosen side.
This is typical intellectual Western narrative control, that sounds profound, but merges right back in with establishment narratives. Is Aris is outing himself as a “crypto-American-hegemon” supporter?
I will say this again. If you want to understand what is going on in Ukraine, or with Taiwan (new-Ukraine) you must understand American military/economic hegemony. Covid/Digital-Health-Passports, the coming CBCDs, corporate slavery to ESG, the US military industrial complex where trillions make a swirling circle that fills the right pockets, and Blackrock who owns little pieces of just about everything now.
How many times do we have to find out after the fact, after the narrative control, things like Saddam didn’t have weapons of mass destruction… oops.. Russia didn’t blow up the pipeline… oops. Covid wasn’t natural cave bat evolution…oops… vaccines weren’t safe and effective… oops. Inflation wasn’t transitory, oops…
Aris is good at saying things that sounds like he is adding to the intellectual debate of thoughts and ideas that help everyone think, and come to better understanding of the truth, but when the results are always predictably going to back to reinforcing establishment narratives, this is just intellectualizing propaganda so people can arrive at the establishment position by their own intellectual pursuits. That way they get to feel both smart and be useful to the proper larger agenda. Yet this is all just something that does nothing to add to understanding the truth, but just reinforces the latest “oops”. 
Aris could still be a good guy, but his head is still down in a trench, and he doesn’t understand the global metanarrative that ties global leadership under the American hegemon together which is much larger than a single writer, even a “philosopher king” level writer. Because, we must remember that the objective truth is always the thing that dictates reality. Not the spinning of writers. The objective should always be understanding the truth, not spin. Spin is the real enemy. Get to the truth, say the truth. 

Aris suggests that the “American populist Right”, which he presumably defines as anyone who has ever voted for Trump, is heavily influenced by Dugin. Utterly ridiculous.

Are we moved a single step further on in exploring our humanity by the pseudo-intellectual parasites that feed upon conflict and prey upon the minds of those directly engaged in it?

Mangling and manipulating concepts in the way that both Dugin and Semenyaka engage in may appeal to those who’re “hard of thinking” (and that includes plenty of politicians and academics) but what positive purpose do they serve? Fomenting division is quite simply anti-civilisational.

An example of such a concept would be Pan-Europeanism. What does that actually mean? Who does it mean? Who agrees to be lumped into this 1984-like over-simplified bloc? And by definition, which parts of the rest of humanity does it exclude?

All it acheives is to take us farther from the more important effort to truly understand ourselves, as fully as it’s possible to do so. Being influenced by these writers allows those afraid to do so to escape into their view of the world, simplified beyond recognition.

Perhaps Mr Dugin should be mobilised to the front line so that he can get some first-hand experience of what he is recommending for everybody.

Aris, your attempts to give avowed white nationalists like Semenyaka a patina of intellectual credibility is unworthy of your talents.

Interesting piece. The below the line discussion is to avoid.

I’m not a progressive nor Liberal in the American sense; Libertarian maybe. I utterly detest Tucker Carlson. An out and out racist and anti-semite the man is loathsome.

What a fascinating read – and who better than Aris to guide through the Byzantine labyrinths of the (resurgent yet still marginal) Right-wing thought making rounds between Germany and its eastern border? I think this is a valuable piece not only because it’s very interesting intellectually, but also the “Anglo-Saxons” are being drawn into this deadly vortex as well and not for the first time.

Psychology is the appropriate field to understand Dugin, Putin et al; not politics. As Peter Pomerantsev and Gary Kasparov have set out.

I like authors writing in most cases.
But the parting of ways between Dugin and Semenyaka is not really surprising.
He only accepted her as a useful stooge of, Russia dominated, Euresian project.
After Russia invasion of Ukraine she realised that that was delusional.
Even now, her new conservatism platform is nonsense.
Without help of neocons, globalisers, Liberal West supremacists etc, Ukraine would be no more.
Silent majority in the West wants less globalisation, less immigration, less woke.
Yes, most traditional parties of the West don’t reflect this desires in their policies.
But ideas of conservative revolution as espoused by Semenyaka are not viable in modern world.

If you’re looking for a fringe ideology becoming wildly influential, look no further than the woke apocalypse we seem to be in the midst of. As for Carlson and other figures in the Right being critical of Zelenski, is it imposible to think they have their own reasons for not hailing him as the oppressed hero the mainstream narrative is so intent on shoving down our throats? Not all Traditionalists are esoteric and nonsensical.

It seems to me that Dugin is not denying the existence of Ukraine or of her right to exist, but making the argument that the current government of Ukraine is not representing the “true Ukraine” or her interests.

Is there any proof for the following statement? “Dugin’s apocalyptic worldview is now worryingly indistinguishable from that of the Russian state as a whole”.
You can want Ukraine to win and also rightly describe Zelensky as “sweaty and rat-like, a comedian turned oligarch, a persecutor of Christians, a friend of BlackRock”.

I do believe that an unaccountable global elite has infiltrated our national governments and instititions and is driving us consciously or not towards an atomised trans-human future. Family and real community, long in decay, are now in an escalating and rapid decline, replaced by ‘identities’ and faux ‘communities’ based on categories developed in and promulgated by elite instititions. The trans-gender horror, the barely disgused normalising of pedophilia, open displays in ‘entertainment’ of satanism, mass trafficking of slave labour, women, men and children traded for sexual purposes… and all under the banner of multi-culturalism and a ‘human right’ to emigrate in a borderless world… never before has so much evil mascaraded as so much good. And all driven by the technological, pharmaceutical and ‘charitable’ NGOs and ‘Foundations’ which operate unaccountably in the intergovernmental nexus that really rules what’s left of our hollowed out nations. So Dugin certainly sees the problem. History he says is cyclical not linear, ‘progress’ a delusion, and that the old tunes are not just coming back but never actually went away.

In Russia, Europe and the West has always been seen as corrupt, decaying, immoral and inhuman – under the Tsars, the Soviets and now Putin. Dugin comes from a long tradition of Slavophile thought or as in its contemporary edition – Eurasian thought. Westernisers like Navalny have always really been on the defensive. Communism arose in Russia from European thought but in practice was quickly eclipsed by the Slavophile impulse.

Dugin is by far the most interesting political thinker of the 21st Century, and the Fourth Political Theory is perhaps the great political tract of the post-Cold War era.

Meanwhile the liberal scum seek to “liberate” children from their anatomy while oblivious western authors laugh at Dugin’s prediction that “liberating” humanity from the physical form would be next. How is this not the obvious next step of “liberation” to a philosophical tradition which values “liberation” of the individual (and, especially, the embracing of the individuals base sexual desires above the sacred bonds of society) as the highest good?

Kingsnorth is the only one who gets it. He just doesn’t know everything he writes has been covered by Dugin.

I wish we had more Duginists in the West. We need to utterly reject the path of individual “liberation” via atomization that started with destroying communal bonds and is now at work with “liberating” humanity from our own biology.

F That Serpent! In God We Trust!