tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post5501125826105014031..comments2024-03-23T09:27:34.737+02:00Comments on Traditionalists: Foreign Affairs identifies Dugin as "Putin's brain"Mark Sedgwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998818251387897344noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post-44250950805646556792014-04-06T17:35:58.090+02:002014-04-06T17:35:58.090+02:00Or the lightning before the thunder? Either way, b...Or the lightning before the thunder? Either way, both result from the same event. So the invasion of the Ukraine and the popularity of neo-Eurasianism both result from the course of Russian-Western relations since the dissolution of the Soviet Union? Perhaps.Mark Sedgwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09998818251387897344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post-33567824072486900142014-04-06T17:19:55.431+02:002014-04-06T17:19:55.431+02:00As a históriája you know better than I that one si...As a históriája you know better than I that one single cause started any war quite rare in the history. But ideologies and philosophies are always in the background. Like Hegel said, ideas are like thunder before the lightning..Hrvoje Juvančićhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02665537645487510698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post-51177002779928188022014-04-03T17:54:40.486+02:002014-04-03T17:54:40.486+02:00In response to AI: I'm not trying to defend Du...In response to AI: I'm not trying to defend Dugin, and I don't disagree with the proposition that he is influential. It's no secret that he'd like to see an awful lot more than the Crimea come under Moscow's control, and I'm sure he is doing what he can to help achieve that. What I'm disagreeing with is the idea that neo-Eurasianism is a major cause of Putin's actions.Mark Sedgwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09998818251387897344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post-36080004739196705712014-04-03T16:58:56.169+02:002014-04-03T16:58:56.169+02:00Mark - The authors have provided a reasonable case...Mark - The authors have provided a reasonable case (though it's mostly circumstantial) for Dugin's influence within Russian political circles. You disagree, on the basis (I'm paraphrasing here, so correct me if I've misunderstood) that coincidents don't prove causality. You're also not convinced that "that philosophy" (Dugin's?) "produces invasions." Yet both Dugin's writings and his recently leaked Skype call with a prominent members of Ukraine's southeastern separatists show that he is interested in Russia's pursuit of an expansionist strategy in Ukraine -- which is precisely what Ukrainians call an invasion. (See http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv-ukrtaz/2014/04/03/foreign-affairs-on-dugin-putin/ for links to other articles on that.) What doesn't convince you? How do you defend Dugin against claims that he is precisely interested in producing an invasion, and that he is influential in Putin's circle of advisors?aihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16612250459328642043noreply@blogger.com