Dugin is the "intellectual" who has Putin's ear which is why the
freethinker affinity for Putin is so bizzare.
Foundations of Geopolitics is his seminal work and he talks about the things Russia should do that they actually ended up doing thanks to Trump/GOP/
freethinkers/imbeciles. He even shouts out the
freethinking morons directly...
Within the United States itself, there is a need for the Russian special services and their allies "to provoke all forms of instability and separatism within the borders of the United States
(it is possible to make use of the political forces of Afro-American racists)" (248). "It is especially important," Dugin adds, "to 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" (367).
tec.fsi.stanford.edu
This is a long article on Dugin and his racism/worldview etc (Putin's as well). that was published well before the war:
www.businessinsider.com
