Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, and you're listening to the New Discourses podcast.

And today we're talking about Alexander Dugan again.

So, you know, we recently did a podcast episode here on the New Discourses podcast, pulling Alexander Duggan into the light.

This was after our kind of friend, kind of at Blaze Media, who goes by the name of R.N. McIntyre,

had been praised by Alexander Dugan as kind of a model that he hopes all of MAGA will emulate.

And so I read Alexander Dugan's rather terrifying 1997 essay,

Fascism, borderless and red, and kind of broke that down for you.

Okay, so Alex, Alexander Dugin, who is he? He's sometimes

described as Putin's brain. He's a currently living Russian philosopher, and by philosopher,

I mean esotericist, probably a Satanist, likely an occultist. I think we're going to be able to

make that conclusion pretty solidly by the end of this podcast, who probably does not have

that much influence on Putin. That influence is probably trumped up as a psychological

operation to get people in the American right wing to take him seriously.

For a variety of reasons, a lot of people, especially on the hardline American right wing,

have decided to start being fairly pro-Russia, not in the sense of being pro-Russian people,

but rather in terms of being pro-the-Russian regime,

pro-Puton as an alternative, a Christian, white, you know, Eurocentric in a way,

alternative to the DEI universe of America and Europe. And how does Putin think becomes a relevant question,

especially for these armchair philosophers, such as Mr. so-called McIntyre at the Blaze.

And so Alexander Dugan gets touted as the thinker who is behind Putin, and he is the thinker who is behind

not everything, but a lot of what we see from the so-called new right or dissident right or

woke right, whichever term you want to use for them. He's been interviewed and put on the

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