Welcome listener to premium chapter 173 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, The Digging

for Dugan episode.

As always we are your host Jake Rockatansky, Annie Kelly, Liv Eger, Julian Fields, and Travis

View. America's longstanding obsession with Russian politics has caused many in the

West to attempt to understand the inner machinations of Putin's political court. This interest

despikes following the full-blown invasion of Ukraine by Russia earlier this year. Many

analysts have been dumbfounded by the reason that Putin would initiate a full-blown invasion

of Ukraine. Kickstarter the first European land war since Yugoslavia fell apart in the

90s. It seems like the relative failure of the invasion, compounded with massive economic

sanctions that America and other Western nations have imposed on Russia, have demonstrated

the fact that many before the war had been repeating. A full-blown invasion makes no sense

for Russia. Their militaries are prepared for it, and the economic benefits it would bring

would not outweigh the inevitable massive sanctions. So what could Putin's motivation be?

Some have looked for a potential ideological reason to justify Putin's war, specifically

pointing to a political philosopher that is popular among Putin and some Russian elites

by the name of Alexander Dugan. Dugan has been an influential ideologue in Russia for a few

decades, pushing a unique form of derasionism to justify Russia remaining an autocratic traditionalist

society that pushes against any encroaching influence from American quote-unquote Atlantisist

Guzhual liberal capitalists. Surely the rabid Russian response to Ukraine potentially

binding itself with this quote-unquote Atlantisist West through joining institutions like the EU

and even potentially NATO could logically evoke a response by Putin that is inspired by

Dugan's right-wing traditionalist derasionism. For this reason, many have contextualized

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