Well done on the topic. Lots of fine details. In the context of modern geopolitics, Eurasianism is once again gaining ground in Russia. Btw, would you be interested in working together? I have a channel that focuses on geopolitics and I think your work is invaluable.
Hey, I'm a great fan of your videos too. It would be great to discuss working together but I don't seem to have a way of contacting you. Guess it's time for me to make a Facebook page...
You apologize for "amateurish production values" in the description, but I'm always enthralled by your research and explanations. The format is also very clear, making it enjoyable. Thank you for the effort you put in.
Agreed. Fancy production work is icing on the cake if anything. What I'm looking for clear information, presented concisely. Excellent work Strategy Stuff!
I haven't seen many of his videos but they feel exactly like what a typical college lecture would be. So content wise top notch and production value at clear but not necessarily flashy.
Yes ... but it's really just postmodern Russian fascism. It does exactly the same thing as Hitlers fascism (just without the race-hatred against jews). I builds a similar mythological fantasy world, abolishes reason and truth, worships the autocrat, requires "lebensraum" and elevates it self above any weaker neighbors, claiming to be one of a select group of "poles" in the world which can indiscriminately dictate to everyone in the sphere of influence. (I suspect the only reason Dugin doesn't try to elevate Russia over China and India and other of his "poles" is because he can't do anything about them anyway.) It's fascism... plain and simple. And this time it has got to be stopped before it takes the whole world down.
Spot on - there are not many contemporary commentators that see the well published desires of Russo-Fascists like Aleksandre Dugin - modern day inner circle strategists - that have Putin's ear.
I was going to say something similar. My understanding is that there is a majority in Ukraine that want to be part of the west, but Putin will have none of it. The idea discussed in this video brings some understanding as to why.
Russia as a Slavic country was always more "European"* than it was "Asian". Like Greece, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria etc. it was part of the European East, which has encompassed countries/empires who's culture and identity was shaped by the Byzantine (East Roman empire). It became geographically Asian when it conquered vast portion of Asian continent, mainly the large plains. That was the part of grand strategy of Russian rulers, to secure and protect eastern borders from possible invasion, and thus to create a powerful empire. The only way to achieve that goal was to go as far east as you can go, and to the south east until you come to the natural obstacles like mountain ranges, that would stop possible invaders. This is exactly what Russia did, so the only possible way to invade country was from the western part of the border. That's also what many tried to do: Teuton knights, Poles, Sweden, Napoleon, Hitler; and all failed because of Russian estern back up strategy. This was the reason why Russia so desperately wanted to move their border as close to Mediterranean as it was possible, and to create more buffer or puppets states to protect itself from a possible invasion from other European empires. Euroasianism is nothing more than a strategy to perserve and gain more power to Russia, like Euroatlanticism is a British and later American grand strategy to expand to the East and to West and to create a powerful naval empire. Also it was a good way for Russia to make a connection with Eastern nations it once conquered. * I don't think that there is a single European indentity. There are many different European identities and cultures, and there were even more before the creation of modern nation states which have homogenized the European continent. They differ among each other but share similar origins and culture and have their roots in ancient hellenistic mediterranean (Greco-Roman) culture.
This is the exact kind of sober and honest laying out of ideas I needed to get a good grasp on Eurasianism. I rarely bother with doing anything beyond hitting the subscribe button, but I have made an exception for you, not only hitting the like button but also leaving a comment. I assure you that from me, this is very high praise indeed. Take it as an indicator both of how badly I needed to see a video like this and of how thoroughly you have satisfied that need.
This is a timely piece, giving context to the discussion recently sparked by Dugin, Snyder (on Ilyan), Kotkin, Pomerantsev, and many others. Thank you.
@ how funny you are comrade there is no food in gulag and no shortage of food too of course because there was never ever were a shortage of food in our glorious rodina capitalists will die out of hunger praise be stalin
And you are ignoring the spread of arabic language over ancient middle east and north africa, the spread of turkic language over central asia and anatolia. Both cases demonstrate people of very different background finding needs of commercial integration and use of lingua franca. And lets not forget the greatest one of them all, the theoretic proto indo-european people. None of these led to long term unfied empire.
I have never before in my life seen such a convenient ideology to explain away all the necessities of Realpolitik. I am pretty convinced of this being a post-hoc explanation for policy.
Eurasianism was thought upp by white emigres shortly after the revolution, by people who were critical of Sovjet (while anticipating that it would eventually transform into an eurasian empire). Eurasianist ideology can therefore not be thought of as a "post-hoc explanation" for the policy of post-sovjet russia, though the aims of eurasianism and the interests of Russia are naturally aligned.
Thank you for summarizing such a complex web of ideas, identities, and ideologies. I really appreciate the insight and clarity you bring to these topics, even if Francis Fukuyama probably hates you.
He was a man born into the world to shake the nations, the scourge of all lands, who in some way terrified all mankind by the dreadful rumors noised abroad cocnerning him."
I appreciate the sentiment but it's usually less about the money and more the fact that there are only so many hours in a day. My reading speed is 1 academic book per day (c.300 pages), so research takes 1 - 2 weeks. Planning/writing takes another week and animation/recording about 3 - 4 days (I did the powerpoints etc at the beginning of this week and recorded 2 days ago). But try as I might to do these in a 4 week schedule, these get delayed by another week because of other work and general laziness.
@@StrategyStuff A respectful response, but nevertheless, what you are doing is genuinely some of the best educational work on TH-cam in this area (you could be the only one, I haven't searched around much). So could we make a compromise with; take my money anyway through potentially patreon or something else?
This dissertation emphasizes ideologies over the basics of 'Food, Clothing, and Shelter'. The 'Silk-Road' and the 'Spice-Trade' were early precursors to global progress.
New to the channel but love the content! The kind of content I didn't know I needed until I found your channel and realized there is practically no equivalent on youtube
the war isnt current. it started in 2014 when kiev launched a war against their own civilians who rejected the western backed overthrow of their elected president.
@@platoscavealum902 Russia will win and the Western crusade against Russia will fail just like Napoleon and Hitler. Ukraine is a Western puppet state controlled by fascists and Nazis, and if you knew anything about Ukraine and this war you'd already know that.
After Dugin's Fourth Political Theory this video is an adjunct to his ideas, well done. It needs to be viewed a few times cos it contains lots of info and your graphics illustrations make the concept, Eurasiamis easier to understand.
The Devil's Advocate 100% without a doubt, found this channel's "Japan's Grand Strategy from 1919-1941" in my recommendations mid-July and have been subscribed ever since.
I just realized how awesome those "geopolitcall strategy" etc. will become if we become a star fering civilization in the far future! Imagine the possibilities of alliances, strategy etc.!
TH-cam needs more content creators like you, man. Well-sourced, informative and not long-winded or narrow as a very specific lecture would be. A great starting point for studying the themes you present. One question for you or for whoever can give their 2 cents: the EEU, as it was planned (which, perhaps, it's not gearing up to be in practice), couldn't have been an honest Eurasian policy move? You mention the focus on bargaining power in a globalized world as something which completely opposes the Eurasianism ethos, which is correct. However maybe it could be seen as a way to break up the "Atlantic" system from within? Since I gather Dugin has been persistent on his "fifth column" of people who want to break Eurasia from within...
If Russia straight out says EEU is a Eurasianist, then that would clearly put the project + Russian policy in general on a clearly anti Atlanticist route with all the consequences that result. That’s why Dugin claims that Putin is pursuing Eurasianism by stealth: justifying Eurasianist projects via non-Eurasianist values. So yes it’s possible that EEU is a Eurasianist project in liberal clothing.
Thank you! You make wonderfully grounded videos. I do have a question though... The Eurasianism view of the West and the West's "strategy" of keeping the rest of the world off balance and always playing catch-up implies a very very long-term and well-coordinated plan. It almost sounds like the only person who can keep this strategy going is a leader who can live and rule for 300 years. So my question is: In the Eurasianism view, who is coordinating this grand Western strategy? Who is driving it? Who keeps it coherent and on-going?
No coordination is needed, because according to Eurasianism, civilizations naturally act in a way that reflects their mestorazvitie (geog + history). So it is natural that the West will try and push its values onto others, just as it is equally natural that these values will never fit into a Eurasian/Arab/etc mestorazvitie. The only unnatural thing for the Eurasianists is that some get seduced by Western ideology, which sets this tragedy in motion.
Its imperialism, its not a leader, its a system, read Lenin's "imperialism the highest stage of capitalism, Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" and "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa", it traces its roots to Colonialism and the West has kept the same status quo to this day.
It would be interesting to hear about the British policies in areas like Sudan where chieftains were given much of the control. Also I'd love to learn about the commonwealth pre-WW2 because it seemed like a very good way to maintain the empire while granting independence to the colonies through economic dependence on an industrialised great Britain compared to rural colonies (canada, south africa and australia) and trade centre hubs (Hong Kong, the suez and gibraltar). I'm very curious about the latter
This is a good presentation. Concise, succinct and insightful. The graphics accompany the pace of the narrative well. I found it informative and helpful. Thankyou.
It wasn't "westernization" that caused the collapse of tsarist Russia (and later of the USSR), this is an excuse used by tsarist and soviet apologists... It was the same old "springtime of nations", and the wish of people to govern themselves.
@@mephisto2872 Yeltzin has nothing to do with collapse of Soviet Union. President dont rule over people, elites inside civilizations do. Soviet union ruled by KGB. Closer to 90s, KGB wanted private property to rule over people even harder. This led to collapse of CCCP, nobody from elites wanted to live in that shithole anymore.
@@SovietUnion100 If you believe official Soviet propaganda - then yes. In reality: no. Soviet Union was as much imperialist, if not more so, than all the other imperial powers. It was a direct successor to the Russian Empire which has been expanding across Eurasia for several hundered years up to the point of bolshevik revolution. It has used a different ideology to control stuff, but it was still very much imperialist.
@@SovietUnion100 lol it's not Empire, just want Global domination of communism, with centeral government in Moscow. Just because you change up a name doesn't change what happens in reality. It was also Stalin who destroyed Soviet Union, by killing farmers, then in the 80s when kolhoz wasn't able to produce much, food markets were essentially empty. Such a failure
Bro is the same as american imperialism but you see it diffrent because western perspective, but, here in latinoamerica you can clearly see its consecuences, 30 years ago usa sponsored dictatorships that forcefully implemented neoliberalism and destroyed fundamental cultural and social aspects of latinoamerican tradition and society
Wow! what an overview of Eurasianist thinking!! It tells me everything I need to know about Putin's mindset and his fanatic need to co-opt Ukraine (read Kievan Rus), even at the expense of destroying it (along with a whackload of Russian military reserves). You Rock the Room, Stuff.
That is why I'm watching & reading about this topic. Most westerners have no knowledge of this topic. Putin is seriously misunderstood. Understanding this topic could help resolve issues such as the Ukrainian war.
Understanding this ideology will be extremely important now that Russia has fledged into the next stage of the development of a Eurasian Union with the invasion in Ukraine.
dugin never wanted to establish eurasian union. the video is misleading! Read up about him. Dugin is a self-proclaimed "true fascist"(unlike fake failed fascists in germany and italy). According to him, Russia is on the way to establish "genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist fascism". He wants a russian empire that will stretch "from dublin to vladivostok". He openly called for invasion of ukraine as early as 2008, and in 2014 he said that ukrainian national identity must be completely eradicated and ukraine as well as all the russian speaking countries must be forcefully reintegrated into Russia. So much for eurasian self determination.
This ideology seems to work back from it's conclusion, it exists only to justify Russian hegemony and expansionism. Oh you even say it at around 23:30! I certainly agree with that. Edit: it's been a few years so my mind has changed on this quite drastically. Still a great channel tho, that I haven't changed my mind about.
Sure...But fighting fire with fire is the concept used here...Russia tried not being an empire during the 90s and it got the european union and nato expanding into its former sphear of influence and union...
Of course they expanded into Russia's sphere of influence. Russia has very little to offer to the common people of those countries; only the oligarchy ever profits from Russian influence. It is also almost incapable of improving conditions in its own country, and if you belong to a minority or voice dissent, you'll just get fucked. Yes, Russia has improved a little under Putin in some areas, and got worse in others. I can't see how this Russia is any better than what a continued communist rule would have managed And yes, the west is stagnating, but at a much higher level. Its that level that other people want to reach, not Russia's. Almost all former Soviet republics on the European continent want to join the EU, not because of some geopolitical shenanigans, but because life over here is so much better.
@@command_unit7792 Russia didn't "try not being an empire" in the 90's, it was just a state in a crisis. But yeah, NATO led by US used the weakness and bought ex-Warsaw pact countries with promises just to install the rockets on their land and create more pressure on Russian border.
@@mausklick1635 Yet they are not viewed by EU major players as equals. I honestly wish for them to have their own thing instead of always falling under one's influence. But they seem to be rather poor at settling their differences and uniting for something good, shown well by Balkans.
Hey chief think you can bump up the sound a tad...I have volume on the way up....two feet away from speaker, and pretty hard to hear you, thank you for your time and work
Fantastic video, well informed and analysed. As a history student it is not often that I come across these theories which I find slightly odd, mostly event-based theories are popular in historiographic discussion at the moment, which is saddening.
I still haven't found an answer to how a Eurasian superstate (or union or whatever) would tackle the problem, that in the end navigation by ship is always cheaper. You don't need to maintain the ocean. The reason why the West is so strong is because we have easily navigable waterways all over the place. Thats true for most EU-countries, it's even more true for the US. Logistics is still the key to the future.
Read "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia" and "Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia" by Aleksandr Dugin. Search Google with the titles and add either PDF or EPUB. Z-Library also has both books, and many more. The Google article on Eurasianism also has lots of links and book titles in the footnotes.
Great content, well studied and analyzed presented in concentrated form and very communicative. I would suggest adding the diagram of topography zones as reference for regions boundaries.
I don't know if you are taking suggestions but i think one on the HRE would be quite interesting, generally of course as in things like the leader of the HREs priorities etc and generally on the habsburgs as a tie in? Id also love more Chinese ones as you never hear anything about them and those videos of yours were great!
I do consider suggestions. HRE is something I'll be doing eventually - Thirty Years' War and maybe 'Grand Strategy of the Austrian Empire' (book came out in 2018). I do want to rotate around regions and time periods to give some variety to the content.
@@FlymanMS how about you then come up with your own ideas then? My simple suggestion was simply something related to the HRE and more Chinese/Asian content. I could of course have named other things like perhaps manifest destiny in practice or WW1 German strategy or whatever (although very overdone). Simply suggestions.
It's interesting that if you extend this geographic area a little farther into China and Korea, you find a very particular style of ancient archery equipment, and a rather specific style of drop spindle for pre-spinning-wheel spinning of yarn.
Thank you, very informative! Given this was created before Ukraine's war, would like to know if some concepts could be revisited, like that Putin would not embrace eurasianism, because of his pragmatism and domestic constituency. Is this statement still valid?
Sorry for the late reply. Well unless we have insider knowledge, it’s probably too early to say that Putin has officially embraced Eurasianism, which is still quite a nebulous term esp in terms of policy. For example, Putins endorsement of expanded-BRICS for cross border trade might seem to fly against Eurasian insularity… but then again, it would also be in line with Neo-Eurasianist global strategy to undermine Atlanticist institutions, which is partly why it’s difficult to judge whether P is Eurasianist absent an official state declaration of policy. Certainly much of Russian justification for the UKR war is not strictly Eurasianist, but just purely nationalist (ie UKR/E UKR is just straight up Russia). Might indicate that the RUS pop still prefers such reasoning over Eurasianism. Whatever his ideological leanings, I think it’s fair to say that Ps policies are certainly trending in a Eurasianist direction. But any movement away from the Western order can be construed as that…
actually it perfectly describes what the west has been trying to do in ukraine since the 1990s and most especially since the coup detat and western instigated Ukrainian civil war in 2014. russia is merely ending the now 8 year old war.
Well, there is the old meaning of the term that used to mean the connecting ideas of the Old World (Europe, Asia, North Africa) and then there is a "new" one that is basically Russian talking point for spreading its influence. No one is buying it and projects like EAEU flopped as soon as they were made. In the same way that pan-Slavism was Czech attempt to bring down empires that subjugated populations of eastern Europe. No one today talks about it - it is simply pointless - as is the Euroasianism.
Александар Матић I too were thinking that EAEU is a flop until it started to affect my daily life. My local grocery store switched its soda supplier so now I am drinking Kazakhstan made Coca-Cola instead of Russian one. I live in a Russian Far East so Astana is physically way closer to me than Moscow is. Logistically it makes a total sense but I personally don’t like it because Kazakh Cola tastes a bit different.
pan-slavism was always russian propaganda, and it had revival in recent years. check out various pan-slavist groups on social media, such as facebook. Most of them aren't in english nor are they targeted at english audience. They preach 'slavic brotherhood'(that's how russian-belarussian 'joint military exercise' during protests against lukashenko in 2020 was also called) and they oppose mercantile western civilization to agrarian slavdom. Reminds you of something?
A lot of false assumptions and cracks in Eurasian ideology. 7:50 trade makes any nation wealthy, thinking that this is a western trait is false. Historically, before American continent and new trade routes were discovered, and even up until Suez canal was built in Egypt, central Asia was on the land trade route the Silk Road and their cities were rich and culturally developed, including China and India, and even more so than Europe in the middle ages. So were middle eastern empires and north African countries who controlled the trade on Mediterranean sea. If landlocked countries in the central Asia were to be given security and trade options, there will be no Russian or "Eurasian" influence in that region. World is connected through trade routes and security alliances, not by fake ideologic identities. And Turkey and Iran will never be close allies with Russia because central Asia is the historical sphere of influence and cultural and military playground for these countries. Neither gas weapon nor ideology will work for Turkey because Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan can always become the main provider for gas and oil, and Turkey is well aware of the value and wealth of trade over any fake ideas, cause it had dominated Mediterranean trade for centuries.
Another interesting video, as always- thanks for sharing. I especially liked some of the criticisms of Atlantic hegemony near the start - I completely agree with many of these.
As you explained, the enormous blind spot in this anti-western strategy is economic performance and enrichment which are precisely the foundation of western influence. I'm amazed how these eurasianists don't even think about this as an essential issue (I guess they're framing enrichment as a "western value", lol).
Eurasianists believe that without spirituality, Western materialism is ultimately self-defeating. The Neo-Eurasianist Panarin, in particular, argued that underdevelopment is actually a good thing, since it allows Eurasia to learn from Western failures and construct a society that avoids exploitative Labor relations, wastage of human potential, and ecocide.
@@StrategyStuffMy jaw just dropped. Wow, but it actually comes to a point where if the West would strategically want to remain prominent and powerful relative to Eurasia, it should just seek to promote this Neo-Eurasianism nonsense over there to keep those nations' economies down.
The video says that when Western values come to other countries, they just become oligarchies that siphon resources from the country and redirect them to the West, and countries become even poorer and lose population. (see Ukraine, Russia in the 90s, Azerbaijan) But do not take Dugin's Eurasianism seriously. He is a marginal about which almost no one in Russia knows nothing, and those who know ridicule him. I don't know why he's so popular in the West.
Dude, you missing out China as it actually a part of this up coming Eurasian super state. This Sino-Soviet split theory can be found on Anatoly Golytsin's book. Good luck, mr professor.
You are right. But he has explained Dugins ideas and curent Russian foreign policy is based on ideas of Primakov. Primakov was for cooperation with China. I think that it is helpful to think in therms of small Eurasia (Russia and former USSR countries minus Baltic states) and big Eurasia (Small Eurasia plus China, India, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and some other countries) that is not a strong geopolitical block but it is an economic block made of 3 great powers and their minor allies. Of course 2 bigest powers in that block (China and Russia) have close geopolitical cooperation and Russia has close geopolitical cooperation with third big power of the block (India) but it cant be said that all other powers of that block have as close geopolitical cooperation. Still that doesent prevent them from cooperating economicaly.
A good extension to this could be a meditation on non-explicit but sometimes obseverd expectations of China being able to take over Russian Siberia (at least East and Central Siberia) would Russia show weakness and would China not need Russia (as it does) for its global geopolitics. Another interesting extension (maybe you already did something on that?) would be the New Silk Road and its Siberian extension favored by the West forcing the hand of Russia on Ukraine and w/ sanctions, forcing Putin to side more strongly with China and look to it as new market for its gas and oil.
The silk road/belt and road is certainly an important new part of this equation but I don't see China taking over Siberia. There's no point if they pursue closer Eurasian integration. There is nothing in Siberia that China needs and Russia isn't already selling them.
@@jakedee4117 - That was something that was occasionally mentioned, more in the past, more than a decade ago, when Russia was perceived as weaker and more decadent. More recently the USA hinted at that too, as if inviting China to take half of Russia while the NATO Empire kept the rest for themselves or something in that line. Of course China knows better. Today I'd say that there is fat chance that anyone would take even a square meter from Russia because it's clear that they are in much better shape (they have the real value: essential commodities, a strong military, a very strong nuclear arsenal, and a relatively strong industry, soon even a ruble-centered financial sphere that nobody will be able to disdain anymore) and nuclear war is not something anyone would want to risk, right? But Siberia is full of "lebensraum": it has many mineral riches and lots of space still available for potential colonization would a demographically saturated country want to. However right now China prefers to have a close ally in Russia and gets the mineral riches via proxy.
Eurasianism: Civilizations derive values from the unique aspects of their environment and one set of values from one area cannot necessarily translate to others. Also Eurasianism: These four unique environments all have the same values and thus should be one civilization called Eurasia.
Guys can we be nice here. The guys is just making videos. Most of it is actually good. It is literally the main reasons the Russian government does what the do. Also enough of the anti-Russian comments, i would understand anti-putin comments but come on guys.
@@milotura6828 while that’s true (and I’m really not a fan of the us acted in Iraq) democracy allows countries to act independently, while imperialism limits countries independence. One is a system a country uses and the other a system that uses the country
I have to agree with other people in comments thinking that this is merely over complex way of blaming others for their own issues. Furthermore, its logic is lax. It is inconsistent and prone to excuses. For starters, I disagree that environment forms character to a degree which is portrayed here. This is proven by different cultures developing different views despite living in similar conditions. For example, Poland and Lithuania had drifted from earliest day from the Russia despite having very similar environment to live in. Or various people like in India, Africa, America, Spain developing completely different mindsets despite similar ecological and environmental conditions. As a nail to the coffin for first Eurasianism principle, Russia is not by any stretch of imagination unified in its environmental characteristics. it is a massive nation stretching over massively different environments. Heck, you cannot say that Russia is unified by cold, because people living next to Black sea enjoys warmer winters than the most Russians and intermediate states like Polish-Lithuanian civilization.
I think commenters here may have over-emphasized the geographic aspect of cultural formation. 'Mestorazvitie' has as its starting point geographic factors, BUT the idea also encompasses the people-to-people interactions that have occurred in such an area. So when we think about Russia and Poland, Classical Eurasianists would say that despite the fact that they were both living in roughly the same biomes, through their interactions with different peoples, they drifted into different mestorazvities and therefore formed different peoples. Then that brings in the question of how 'mestorazvities' are defined and so on, which results in the same arbitrariness that you have mentioned in your comment.
@@StrategyStuffBut at this point the entire idea loses its principal worth. IF said people can drift over time through their interactions with other people, this means that geographical constrains plays a minor role at best. Even when it comes to minor aspects like national character, it is prone to change regardless of environment which in the end results in situation where supposedly "common" people do not share identical values. This then comes down to dividing people upon ideas which cannot function properly in reality. A common trend among Russian thinkers admittedly, seeing as how they just came out of communism. This is seen at Euroasians suggested divide. N.American taking S.America? Really? Russia and Slav-like people there having common future with Asia? Really? They could not be more different. Same ridiculous idea is extended to Africa as it is simply incompactible with our value system and the only practical interaction which we Europeans want to have with that region is domination (neo-colonism) and tourism. While I agree with the need for a nation to protect its national identity and core values of the people in order for government to remain legitimate in the eyes of the people. I also agree that Anglo-Saxon cultures do have tendency to divide and conquer. They strive for domination of other regions by imposing their own values and plunging nations into civil discord and through ensuring chaos putting themselves ahead. Yet as the whole, these ideas are ill-thought out and does not stand to academic scrutiny at its core claims.
The fact that a so-called "eurasian sphere" consists of so many desperate regions and peoples who's only shared trait is a border with Russia really gives the game away...
Also the fact that "Eurasianism" is anti-anglosphere/western but Russia is mostly Communist and that ideology started with Marx who was so western he assumed Britain would be the first adopter. Its literally a rejected western/anglo idea thats the core of the "anti western" block. (It was rejected for good reason)
The idea that the South must forever depend or be connected to their immediate north is absurd. Oceans also connect places, and so South America and Africa, Europe and North America, Africa and South Asia, for example, can, will and have had long meaningful relations with one another.
Well this didn't age well. Dugans ideology became more ethno centrist and politically authoritarian, and Russia became more belligerent and militarily ambitious resulting in a massive loss in Russian and Eurasian confidence.
Well done on the topic. Lots of fine details. In the context of modern geopolitics, Eurasianism is once again gaining ground in Russia.
Btw, would you be interested in working together? I have a channel that focuses on geopolitics and I think your work is invaluable.
This would be amazing! BTW Shirvan, are you guys looking for help with research on Asia?
Eeeey, CaspianReport
Hey, I'm a great fan of your videos too. It would be great to discuss working together but I don't seem to have a way of contacting you. Guess it's time for me to make a Facebook page...
Caspian Report + Strategy Stuff! That's like a dream come true!
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You apologize for "amateurish production values" in the description, but I'm always enthralled by your research and explanations. The format is also very clear, making it enjoyable. Thank you for the effort you put in.
Agreed. Fancy production work is icing on the cake if anything. What I'm looking for clear information, presented concisely. Excellent work Strategy Stuff!
I haven't seen many of his videos but they feel exactly like what a typical college lecture would be. So content wise top notch and production value at clear but not necessarily flashy.
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This needs to make the rounds. Understanding Eurasianism is key to understanding the present conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Yes ... but it's really just postmodern Russian fascism.
It does exactly the same thing as Hitlers fascism (just without the race-hatred against jews).
I builds a similar mythological fantasy world, abolishes reason and truth, worships the autocrat, requires "lebensraum" and elevates it self above any weaker neighbors, claiming to be one of a select group of "poles" in the world which can indiscriminately dictate to everyone in the sphere of influence. (I suspect the only reason Dugin doesn't try to elevate Russia over China and India and other of his "poles" is because he can't do anything about them anyway.)
It's fascism... plain and simple. And this time it has got to be stopped before it takes the whole world down.
Spot on - there are not many contemporary commentators that see the well published desires of Russo-Fascists like Aleksandre Dugin - modern day inner circle strategists - that have Putin's ear.
People can rationalize any act of evil, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is just plain murder with no justification at all!
I was going to say something similar. My understanding is that there is a majority in Ukraine that want to be part of the west, but Putin will have none of it. The idea discussed in this video brings some understanding as to why.
@@KittyCatMeowMeowTime Correction, bub: the majority of WESTERN Ukraine want to be part of the West; the REST of the country will have none of it.
Russia as a Slavic country was always more "European"* than it was "Asian". Like Greece, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria etc. it was part of the European East, which has encompassed countries/empires who's culture and identity was shaped by the Byzantine (East Roman empire).
It became geographically Asian when it conquered vast portion of Asian continent, mainly the large plains.
That was the part of grand strategy of Russian rulers, to secure and protect eastern borders from possible invasion, and thus to create a powerful empire.
The only way to achieve that goal was to go as far east as you can go, and to the south east until you come to the natural obstacles like mountain ranges, that would stop possible invaders. This is exactly what Russia did, so the only possible way to invade country was from the western part of the border. That's also what many tried to do: Teuton knights, Poles, Sweden, Napoleon, Hitler; and all failed because of Russian estern back up strategy.
This was the reason why Russia so desperately wanted to move their border as close to Mediterranean as it was possible, and to create more buffer or puppets states to protect itself from a possible invasion from other European empires.
Euroasianism is nothing more than a strategy to perserve and gain more power to Russia, like Euroatlanticism is a British and later American grand strategy to expand to the East and to West and to create a powerful naval empire. Also it was a good way for Russia to make a connection with Eastern nations it once conquered.
* I don't think that there is a single European indentity. There are many different European identities and cultures, and there were even more before the creation of modern nation states which have homogenized the European continent.
They differ among each other but share similar origins and culture and have their roots in ancient hellenistic mediterranean (Greco-Roman) culture.
to be honest slavs are not european europa ends where orthodoxs start its just western empire
@@kerimozdemir4009 Some Slavs are Protestant and Catholic. So Europe ends where Germany ends.
That's a stupid thing to say. Europe as a continent ends at Ural Mountains on the east and Asia Minor on the south.
@@FlymanMS well news to you europa is not a continent
@@Porkeater2610957 but what about slovenia they are culturally west orianted catholic but they are slavic
This is the exact kind of sober and honest laying out of ideas I needed to get a good grasp on Eurasianism. I rarely bother with doing anything beyond hitting the subscribe button, but I have made an exception for you, not only hitting the like button but also leaving a comment. I assure you that from me, this is very high praise indeed. Take it as an indicator both of how badly I needed to see a video like this and of how thoroughly you have satisfied that need.
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This is a timely piece, giving context to the discussion recently sparked by Dugin, Snyder (on Ilyan), Kotkin, Pomerantsev, and many others. Thank you.
In 2022, Dugin's work is particularly profound as a sort of neo-fascist Rasputin in Putin's ear, encouraging the disastrous invasion of Ukraine.
Last time I was this early, a juvenile Dugin was having issues with his oppressive dad.
SycheRyder who punished him severely
last time i was this early he was making extremist parties with pedophiles
Soviet Union 2 : Electric Boogaloo
This time with less communism and more oligarchy! Yay.
@@Apodeipnon let me ptotect you from lgbt feminist vegans comrade (well to be honest im ok with it)
@@kerimozdemir4009 You think there are no feminists and vegans in Russia? :D:D:D:D:D::D
@@raitiC1 there will be none out of gulag when they done with them :D
@ how funny you are comrade there is no food in gulag and no shortage of food too of course because there was never ever were a shortage of food in our glorious rodina capitalists will die out of hunger praise be stalin
TL:DR it's a justification for Russian Empire/Soviet Union
And you are ignoring the spread of arabic language over ancient middle east and north africa, the spread of turkic language over central asia and anatolia. Both cases demonstrate people of very different background finding needs of commercial integration and use of lingua franca. And lets not forget the greatest one of them all, the theoretic proto indo-european people. None of these led to long term unfied empire.
More like a justification for new Eurasian Empier/Union. Armchair geopoliticizm tbh.
As if those things were the same..
How can there be a justification for something that had existed?
than how does this justify the owning the baltic and parts of Poland
You should do the Grand Strategy of Napoleon, cause what he planed was not what he ended up doing.
I have never before in my life seen such a convenient ideology to explain away all the necessities of Realpolitik. I am pretty convinced of this being a post-hoc explanation for policy.
Eurasianism was thought upp by white emigres shortly after the revolution, by people who were critical of Sovjet (while anticipating that it would eventually transform into an eurasian empire). Eurasianist ideology can therefore not be thought of as a "post-hoc explanation" for the policy of post-sovjet russia, though the aims of eurasianism and the interests of Russia are naturally aligned.
Georgi, exactly! It's weak stuff.
This only makes sense if Eurasianism was new. Eurasianism has existed since before the soviet union.
Thank you for summarizing such a complex web of ideas, identities, and ideologies. I really appreciate the insight and clarity you bring to these topics, even if Francis Fukuyama probably hates you.
Francis Fukayama hates his former over-optimistic grand narrative now too.
I'm really glad to see this channel finally getting the recognition it deserves. Quality stuff like always
Reminded how much I loved your videos in light of current events. Thanks for your efforts!
Thank you so much. We need to share this video. It is very helpful to understand the current situation.
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I've just stumbled into your video and I find it incredibly well vulgarised, clear and synthesised. I subscribe immediately to your channel !
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1:51 "Lev Gumilyov"
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Eurasia forever
Exactly the motive I’ve watched the video
He was a man born into the world to shake the nations, the scourge of all lands, who in some way terrified all mankind by the dreadful rumors noised abroad cocnerning him."
So "Masterocracy" is literally Absolutism 2.0
Fitting, as Eurasianism basically seeks to justify perpetual Russian dominance over its neighbours.
Thats true russian stole so much
@@savulescteodor9333 what the stole?
Just like the Monroe Doctrine isn't it?
Western Russians are white
Can I give you money to do this more frequently?
this is bullshit
@@Lyle-xc9pg how so?
@@Lyle-xc9pg I would happily give him up to a tenner per video for more of them.
I appreciate the sentiment but it's usually less about the money and more the fact that there are only so many hours in a day. My reading speed is 1 academic book per day (c.300 pages), so research takes 1 - 2 weeks. Planning/writing takes another week and animation/recording about 3 - 4 days (I did the powerpoints etc at the beginning of this week and recorded 2 days ago). But try as I might to do these in a 4 week schedule, these get delayed by another week because of other work and general laziness.
@@StrategyStuff A respectful response, but nevertheless, what you are doing is genuinely some of the best educational work on TH-cam in this area (you could be the only one, I haven't searched around much). So could we make a compromise with; take my money anyway through potentially patreon or something else?
Thank you. This is important information to consider with what is going on now.
This dissertation emphasizes ideologies over the basics of 'Food, Clothing, and Shelter'. The 'Silk-Road' and the 'Spice-Trade' were early precursors to global progress.
Excellent analysis! Thank you for bringing this to light!
Very well explained! Eurasianism looks like a thinly veiled Russian version of American exceptionalism and its spawn, the Monroe Doctrine.
Love this video, it's so impartial and informative without being judgemental
New to the channel but love the content! The kind of content I didn't know I needed until I found your channel and realized there is practically no equivalent on youtube
This video is why I subscribed. Great content. Highly underrated.
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This feels like the soviet union with extra steps.
Or with extra steppes.
@@jakedee4117 nice one ha!
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Very well made. Thank you for this.
Thank you for explaining The current war in Ukraine.
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the war isnt current. it started in 2014 when kiev launched a war against their own civilians who rejected the western backed overthrow of their elected president.
@@youtubeuser206 Found the Russian propaganda bot. I hope you enjoy your brainwashing.
@@platoscavealum902 Russia will win and the Western crusade against Russia will fail just like Napoleon and Hitler. Ukraine is a Western puppet state controlled by fascists and Nazis, and if you knew anything about Ukraine and this war you'd already know that.
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Sadly very underrated video, I use it in my TA role for students who are curious to learn more. Great and extremely factual
Yay you are back
After Dugin's Fourth Political Theory this video is an adjunct to his ideas, well done. It needs to be viewed a few times cos it contains lots of info and your graphics illustrations make the concept, Eurasiamis easier to understand.
Watch this video again, well done.
Is this strategy working? Oct 27, Both Iran & Turkey and already Syria move into the Russian orbit.
Eurasianism is gay and Eurasians are ugly mongoloids
Thank you for making these videos. You're definitely one of the best Geopolitical analyzers on TH-cam!
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100% without a doubt, found this channel's "Japan's Grand Strategy from 1919-1941" in my recommendations mid-July and have been subscribed ever since.
Thank you for your channel and videos. I've found this information no-where else and it is sorely needed.
I just realized how awesome those "geopolitcall strategy" etc. will become if we become a star fering civilization in the far future! Imagine the possibilities of alliances, strategy etc.!
Really excellent video, thanks. Thoughtful and balanced analysis.
TH-cam needs more content creators like you, man. Well-sourced, informative and not long-winded or narrow as a very specific lecture would be. A great starting point for studying the themes you present.
One question for you or for whoever can give their 2 cents: the EEU, as it was planned (which, perhaps, it's not gearing up to be in practice), couldn't have been an honest Eurasian policy move? You mention the focus on bargaining power in a globalized world as something which completely opposes the Eurasianism ethos, which is correct. However maybe it could be seen as a way to break up the "Atlantic" system from within? Since I gather Dugin has been persistent on his "fifth column" of people who want to break Eurasia from within...
If Russia straight out says EEU is a Eurasianist, then that would clearly put the project + Russian policy in general on a clearly anti Atlanticist route with all the consequences that result. That’s why Dugin claims that Putin is pursuing Eurasianism by stealth: justifying Eurasianist projects via non-Eurasianist values. So yes it’s possible that EEU is a Eurasianist project in liberal clothing.
this video aged very well. good work
Thank you! You make wonderfully grounded videos.
I do have a question though... The Eurasianism view of the West and the West's "strategy" of keeping the rest of the world off balance and always playing catch-up implies a very very long-term and well-coordinated plan. It almost sounds like the only person who can keep this strategy going is a leader who can live and rule for 300 years. So my question is: In the Eurasianism view, who is coordinating this grand Western strategy? Who is driving it? Who keeps it coherent and on-going?
No coordination is needed, because according to Eurasianism, civilizations naturally act in a way that reflects their mestorazvitie (geog + history). So it is natural that the West will try and push its values onto others, just as it is equally natural that these values will never fit into a Eurasian/Arab/etc mestorazvitie. The only unnatural thing for the Eurasianists is that some get seduced by Western ideology, which sets this tragedy in motion.
Its imperialism, its not a leader, its a system, read Lenin's "imperialism the highest stage of capitalism, Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" and "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa", it traces its roots to Colonialism and the West has kept the same status quo to this day.
It would be interesting to hear about the British policies in areas like Sudan where chieftains were given much of the control. Also I'd love to learn about the commonwealth pre-WW2 because it seemed like a very good way to maintain the empire while granting independence to the colonies through economic dependence on an industrialised great Britain compared to rural colonies (canada, south africa and australia) and trade centre hubs (Hong Kong, the suez and gibraltar). I'm very curious about the latter
Yes, the interwar strategy of Britain is in this channel's future. Probably need to figure out whether to split it into global and European bits.
Passion and Power shall prevail.
Any TNO fellas here?
Me why?
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This is a good presentation. Concise, succinct and insightful. The graphics accompany the pace of the narrative well.
I found it informative and helpful. Thankyou.
It wasn't "westernization" that caused the collapse of tsarist Russia (and later of the USSR), this is an excuse used by tsarist and soviet apologists...
It was the same old "springtime of nations", and the wish of people to govern themselves.
M S That is not why the USSR collapsed. The USSR collapsed because of Yeltzin.
It was the bolsheviks (of whom a lot weren't really Russians) who caused the collapse
@@mephisto2872 Yeltzin has nothing to do with collapse of Soviet Union. President dont rule over people, elites inside civilizations do. Soviet union ruled by KGB. Closer to 90s, KGB wanted private property to rule over people even harder. This led to collapse of CCCP, nobody from elites wanted to live in that shithole anymore.
The USSR collapsed because communism is an unmanageable system. It was guaranteed to fail eventually. th-cam.com/video/zkPGfTEZ_r4/w-d-xo.html
really good summary of a complex, obscure subject.
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Yeah.. what you describe seems more like Russian and Soviet imperialism than "Eurasiansim".
Have you listened to Dugin? Thats basically what it is.
"Soviet imperialism" is an oxymoron that only exists in the minds of western imperialists. Communism is literally anti imperialist you idiot.
@@SovietUnion100 If you believe official Soviet propaganda - then yes. In reality: no. Soviet Union was as much imperialist, if not more so, than all the other imperial powers. It was a direct successor to the Russian Empire which has been expanding across Eurasia for several hundered years up to the point of bolshevik revolution. It has used a different ideology to control stuff, but it was still very much imperialist.
@@SovietUnion100 lol it's not Empire, just want Global domination of communism, with centeral government in Moscow. Just because you change up a name doesn't change what happens in reality. It was also Stalin who destroyed Soviet Union, by killing farmers, then in the 80s when kolhoz wasn't able to produce much, food markets were essentially empty. Such a failure
Bro is the same as american imperialism but you see it diffrent because western perspective, but, here in latinoamerica you can clearly see its consecuences, 30 years ago usa sponsored dictatorships that forcefully implemented neoliberalism and destroyed fundamental cultural and social aspects of latinoamerican tradition and society
Wow! what an overview of Eurasianist thinking!! It tells me everything I need to know about Putin's mindset and his fanatic need to co-opt Ukraine (read Kievan Rus), even at the expense of destroying it (along with a whackload of Russian military reserves). You Rock the Room, Stuff.
That is why I'm watching & reading about this topic. Most westerners have no knowledge of this topic. Putin is seriously misunderstood. Understanding this topic could help resolve issues such as the Ukrainian war.
Understanding this ideology will be extremely important now that Russia has fledged into the next stage of the development of a Eurasian Union with the invasion in Ukraine.
dugin never wanted to establish eurasian union. the video is misleading! Read up about him.
Dugin is a self-proclaimed "true fascist"(unlike fake failed fascists in germany and italy). According to him, Russia is on the way to establish "genuine, true, radically revolutionary and consistent, fascist fascism".
He wants a russian empire that will stretch "from dublin to vladivostok". He openly called for invasion of ukraine as early as 2008, and in 2014 he said that ukrainian national identity must be completely eradicated and ukraine as well as all the russian speaking countries must be forcefully reintegrated into Russia.
So much for eurasian self determination.
@Vinny Zigzag 비니 지그재그 according to dugin, it's a better nazism.
It should not have to be this way, but then again Oedipus could also not have killed his father
You mean an INTERVENTION; Russia didn’t “invade” shit. There is an 8 year war in the Ukraine prior to this. Look up the war on the Donbas.
@@ieronymos9265 I was born yesterday and I never ever heard of war in donbass.
Is what you think?
Wow! This is a fascinating, cogent and informative summary.
So basically "Our world dominance is better than your world dominance"
Excellent work! Thanks very much for the enlightenment.
This ideology seems to work back from it's conclusion, it exists only to justify Russian hegemony and expansionism.
Oh you even say it at around 23:30! I certainly agree with that.
Edit: it's been a few years so my mind has changed on this quite drastically. Still a great channel tho, that I haven't changed my mind about.
Sure...But fighting fire with fire is the concept used here...Russia tried not being an empire during the 90s and it got the european union and nato expanding into its former sphear of influence and union...
Of course they expanded into Russia's sphere of influence. Russia has very little to offer to the common people of those countries; only the oligarchy ever profits from Russian influence. It is also almost incapable of improving conditions in its own country, and if you belong to a minority or voice dissent, you'll just get fucked. Yes, Russia has improved a little under Putin in some areas, and got worse in others. I can't see how this Russia is any better than what a continued communist rule would have managed And yes, the west is stagnating, but at a much higher level. Its that level that other people want to reach, not Russia's. Almost all former Soviet republics on the European continent want to join the EU, not because of some geopolitical shenanigans, but because life over here is so much better.
@@command_unit7792 Russia didn't "try not being an empire" in the 90's, it was just a state in a crisis. But yeah, NATO led by US used the weakness and bought ex-Warsaw pact countries with promises just to install the rockets on their land and create more pressure on Russian border.
@@mausklick1635 Yet they are not viewed by EU major players as equals. I honestly wish for them to have their own thing instead of always falling under one's influence. But they seem to be rather poor at settling their differences and uniting for something good, shown well by Balkans.
@@command_unit7792 Russia took Basarabia from romanians its our land not yours you are just a bunch of expansionist thives
Great video on a very interesting topic.
Hey chief think you can bump up the sound a tad...I have volume on the way up....two feet away from speaker, and pretty hard to hear you, thank you for your time and work
Fantastic video, well informed and analysed. As a history student it is not often that I come across these theories which I find slightly odd, mostly event-based theories are popular in historiographic discussion at the moment, which is saddening.
I still haven't found an answer to how a Eurasian superstate (or union or whatever) would tackle the problem, that in the end navigation by ship is always cheaper.
You don't need to maintain the ocean.
The reason why the West is so strong is because we have easily navigable waterways all over the place. Thats true for most EU-countries, it's even more true for the US.
Logistics is still the key to the future.
Thank you for an excellent background analysis that is so relevant to the current war in Ukraine.
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Man that videos was great, seeing the stuff you said about the Germanic/Roman European group is very insightful, I'm team Atlantic all the way
Dugin, what a meme guy
Marx's crazy cousin.
you mean Based.
True, yet he is also scary.
@@FlymanMS literally not related to marx at all, Dugin is ideologically closer to fascism than marxism
@HarambeLives23 >imagine being so reddit you can't get a joke
Another great video. Thanks fam
Russia-Ukraine war was just inevitable. Great Information. Could you suggest any book regarding this?
Read "The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia" and "Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia" by Aleksandr Dugin. Search Google with the titles and add either PDF or EPUB. Z-Library also has both books, and many more. The Google article on Eurasianism also has lots of links and book titles in the footnotes.
@@MaconMedia Thanks Bro,
@@MaconMediaz-library still alive? i thought the 🦅🦅 got them
It's still alive. @@nerd2544 I use their services nearly everyday in my data hoarding effort. LOL
Now t inevitably at all.
Great content, well studied and analyzed presented in concentrated form and very communicative. I would suggest adding the diagram of topography zones as reference for regions boundaries.
Very good idea
Can you make a video on China/India's contemporary geopolitical strategy!!!
Man I love these videos, you need to make more! Also more volume, your voice quiet even with my speaker hoooked up!
I don't know if you are taking suggestions but i think one on the HRE would be quite interesting, generally of course as in things like the leader of the HREs priorities etc and generally on the habsburgs as a tie in? Id also love more Chinese ones as you never hear anything about them and those videos of yours were great!
I do consider suggestions. HRE is something I'll be doing eventually - Thirty Years' War and maybe 'Grand Strategy of the Austrian Empire' (book came out in 2018). I do want to rotate around regions and time periods to give some variety to the content.
@@FlymanMS how about you then come up with your own ideas then? My simple suggestion was simply something related to the HRE and more Chinese/Asian content. I could of course have named other things like perhaps manifest destiny in practice or WW1 German strategy or whatever (although very overdone). Simply suggestions.
@@thrashes6208 Sorry my response was to another comment, TH-cam messed it up. I am all for more interesting videos on this channel.
Love your videos it's a nice change for people to post strategy videos and the like
It's interesting that if you extend this geographic area a little farther into China and Korea, you find a very particular style of ancient archery equipment, and a rather specific style of drop spindle for pre-spinning-wheel spinning of yarn.
Best video on the internet right now explaining Russia’s POV. Not justifying yet but making it make sense.
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Thank you, very informative! Given this was created before Ukraine's war, would like to know if some concepts could be revisited, like that Putin would not embrace eurasianism, because of his pragmatism and domestic constituency. Is this statement still valid?
Sorry for the late reply. Well unless we have insider knowledge, it’s probably too early to say that Putin has officially embraced Eurasianism, which is still quite a nebulous term esp in terms of policy. For example, Putins endorsement of expanded-BRICS for cross border trade might seem to fly against Eurasian insularity… but then again, it would also be in line with Neo-Eurasianist global strategy to undermine Atlanticist institutions, which is partly why it’s difficult to judge whether P is Eurasianist absent an official state declaration of policy.
Certainly much of Russian justification for the UKR war is not strictly Eurasianist, but just purely nationalist (ie UKR/E UKR is just straight up Russia). Might indicate that the RUS pop still prefers such reasoning over Eurasianism.
Whatever his ideological leanings, I think it’s fair to say that Ps policies are certainly trending in a Eurasianist direction. But any movement away from the Western order can be construed as that…
So this is basically Putin's ideological outlook, and backs up what he is trying to do in the Ukraine now.
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actually it perfectly describes what the west has been trying to do in ukraine since the 1990s and most especially since the coup detat and western instigated Ukrainian civil war in 2014. russia is merely ending the now 8 year old war.
Great video, tons of very important and interesting terms and ideologies.
Well this became EXTREMELY relevant for some reason lol
Well 22:45 Russia declared in 2023 that Eurasianism is now, indeed, Part of Russian Foreign Policy.
Well, there is the old meaning of the term that used to mean the connecting ideas of the Old World (Europe, Asia, North Africa) and then there is a "new" one that is basically Russian talking point for spreading its influence. No one is buying it and projects like EAEU flopped as soon as they were made. In the same way that pan-Slavism was Czech attempt to bring down empires that subjugated populations of eastern Europe. No one today talks about it - it is simply pointless - as is the Euroasianism.
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I too were thinking that EAEU is a flop until it started to affect my daily life. My local grocery store switched its soda supplier so now I am drinking Kazakhstan made Coca-Cola instead of Russian one. I live in a Russian Far East so Astana is physically way closer to me than Moscow is. Logistically it makes a total sense but I personally don’t like it because Kazakh Cola tastes a bit different.
pan-slavism was always russian propaganda, and it had revival in recent years.
check out various pan-slavist groups on social media, such as facebook. Most of them aren't in english nor are they targeted at english audience.
They preach 'slavic brotherhood'(that's how russian-belarussian 'joint military exercise' during protests against lukashenko in 2020 was also called) and they oppose mercantile western civilization to agrarian slavdom. Reminds you of something?
A lot of false assumptions and cracks in Eurasian ideology. 7:50 trade makes any nation wealthy, thinking that this is a western trait is false. Historically, before American continent and new trade routes were discovered, and even up until Suez canal was built in Egypt, central Asia was on the land trade route the Silk Road and their cities were rich and culturally developed, including China and India, and even more so than Europe in the middle ages. So were middle eastern empires and north African countries who controlled the trade on Mediterranean sea. If landlocked countries in the central Asia were to be given security and trade options, there will be no Russian or "Eurasian" influence in that region. World is connected through trade routes and security alliances, not by fake ideologic identities. And Turkey and Iran will never be close allies with Russia because central Asia is the historical sphere of influence and cultural and military playground for these countries. Neither gas weapon nor ideology will work for Turkey because Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan can always become the main provider for gas and oil, and Turkey is well aware of the value and wealth of trade over any fake ideas, cause it had dominated Mediterranean trade for centuries.
Another interesting video, as always- thanks for sharing. I especially liked some of the criticisms of Atlantic hegemony near the start - I completely agree with many of these.
Very informative. Thank you.
Eurasia is not the former soviet state, Eurasia is all the european countries plus the former soviet Sphere.
Please post new videos. I love your content!
As you explained, the enormous blind spot in this anti-western strategy is economic performance and enrichment which are precisely the foundation of western influence. I'm amazed how these eurasianists don't even think about this as an essential issue (I guess they're framing enrichment as a "western value", lol).
Eurasianists believe that without spirituality, Western materialism is ultimately self-defeating. The Neo-Eurasianist Panarin, in particular, argued that underdevelopment is actually a good thing, since it allows Eurasia to learn from Western failures and construct a society that avoids exploitative Labor relations, wastage of human potential, and ecocide.
@@StrategyStuffMy jaw just dropped. Wow, but it actually comes to a point where if the West would strategically want to remain prominent and powerful relative to Eurasia, it should just seek to promote this Neo-Eurasianism nonsense over there to keep those nations' economies down.
The video says that when Western values come to other countries, they just become oligarchies that siphon resources from the country and redirect them to the West, and countries become even poorer and lose population. (see Ukraine, Russia in the 90s, Azerbaijan)
But do not take Dugin's Eurasianism seriously. He is a marginal about which almost no one in Russia knows nothing, and those who know ridicule him. I don't know why he's so popular in the West.
Excellent content. You deserve more subs.
Dude, you missing out China as it actually a part of this up coming Eurasian super state. This Sino-Soviet split theory can be found on Anatoly Golytsin's book. Good luck, mr professor.
You are right. But he has explained Dugins ideas and curent Russian foreign policy is based on ideas of Primakov. Primakov was for cooperation with China. I think that it is helpful to think in therms of small Eurasia (Russia and former USSR countries minus Baltic states) and big Eurasia (Small Eurasia plus China, India, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and some other countries) that is not a strong geopolitical block but it is an economic block made of 3 great powers and their minor allies. Of course 2 bigest powers in that block (China and Russia) have close geopolitical cooperation and Russia has close geopolitical cooperation with third big power of the block (India) but it cant be said that all other powers of that block have as close geopolitical cooperation. Still that doesent prevent them from cooperating economicaly.
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Please define "natural order"
12:40 -there is a typo, correct spelling is "idiocracy" 😁
A good extension to this could be a meditation on non-explicit but sometimes obseverd expectations of China being able to take over Russian Siberia (at least East and Central Siberia) would Russia show weakness and would China not need Russia (as it does) for its global geopolitics.
Another interesting extension (maybe you already did something on that?) would be the New Silk Road and its Siberian extension favored by the West forcing the hand of Russia on Ukraine and w/ sanctions, forcing Putin to side more strongly with China and look to it as new market for its gas and oil.
The silk road/belt and road is certainly an important new part of this equation but I don't see China taking over Siberia. There's no point if they pursue closer Eurasian integration. There is nothing in Siberia that China needs and Russia isn't already selling them.
@@jakedee4117 - That was something that was occasionally mentioned, more in the past, more than a decade ago, when Russia was perceived as weaker and more decadent. More recently the USA hinted at that too, as if inviting China to take half of Russia while the NATO Empire kept the rest for themselves or something in that line. Of course China knows better.
Today I'd say that there is fat chance that anyone would take even a square meter from Russia because it's clear that they are in much better shape (they have the real value: essential commodities, a strong military, a very strong nuclear arsenal, and a relatively strong industry, soon even a ruble-centered financial sphere that nobody will be able to disdain anymore) and nuclear war is not something anyone would want to risk, right?
But Siberia is full of "lebensraum": it has many mineral riches and lots of space still available for potential colonization would a demographically saturated country want to. However right now China prefers to have a close ally in Russia and gets the mineral riches via proxy.
Eurasianism: Civilizations derive values from the unique aspects of their environment and one set of values from one area cannot necessarily translate to others.
Also Eurasianism: These four unique environments all have the same values and thus should be one civilization called Eurasia.
Also no worries if not, but i think you could do a great video on the Anglosphere
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Guys can we be nice here. The guys is just making videos. Most of it is actually good. It is literally the main reasons the Russian government does what the do. Also enough of the anti-Russian comments, i would understand anti-putin comments but come on guys.
Eurasianism sounds like it's just a complicated excuse to justify Russian imperialism...
Russian imperialism is the only thing stopping world hegemony of Atlantic civilization
@@nintervawaming4902 other than China, India, and most of the middle east
Yea, same goes for US’s belief in the spread of democracy just saying
@@milotura6828 while that’s true (and I’m really not a fan of the us acted in Iraq) democracy allows countries to act independently, while imperialism limits countries independence. One is a system a country uses and the other a system that uses the country
That’s exactly what it is.
Heeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyy, anyone else decide to rewatch some Strategy Stuff after taking a peek at the news in the last month?
I have to agree with other people in comments thinking that this is merely over complex way of blaming others for their own issues. Furthermore, its logic is lax. It is inconsistent and prone to excuses. For starters, I disagree that environment forms character to a degree which is portrayed here. This is proven by different cultures developing different views despite living in similar conditions. For example, Poland and Lithuania had drifted from earliest day from the Russia despite having very similar environment to live in. Or various people like in India, Africa, America, Spain developing completely different mindsets despite similar ecological and environmental conditions.
As a nail to the coffin for first Eurasianism principle, Russia is not by any stretch of imagination unified in its environmental characteristics. it is a massive nation stretching over massively different environments. Heck, you cannot say that Russia is unified by cold, because people living next to Black sea enjoys warmer winters than the most Russians and intermediate states like Polish-Lithuanian civilization.
I think commenters here may have over-emphasized the geographic aspect of cultural formation. 'Mestorazvitie' has as its starting point geographic factors, BUT the idea also encompasses the people-to-people interactions that have occurred in such an area. So when we think about Russia and Poland, Classical Eurasianists would say that despite the fact that they were both living in roughly the same biomes, through their interactions with different peoples, they drifted into different mestorazvities and therefore formed different peoples. Then that brings in the question of how 'mestorazvities' are defined and so on, which results in the same arbitrariness that you have mentioned in your comment.
@@StrategyStuffBut at this point the entire idea loses its principal worth. IF said people can drift over time through their interactions with other people, this means that geographical constrains plays a minor role at best. Even when it comes to minor aspects like national character, it is prone to change regardless of environment which in the end results in situation where supposedly "common" people do not share identical values. This then comes down to dividing people upon ideas which cannot function properly in reality. A common trend among Russian thinkers admittedly, seeing as how they just came out of communism.
This is seen at Euroasians suggested divide. N.American taking S.America? Really? Russia and Slav-like people there having common future with Asia? Really? They could not be more different. Same ridiculous idea is extended to Africa as it is simply incompactible with our value system and the only practical interaction which we Europeans want to have with that region is domination (neo-colonism) and tourism.
While I agree with the need for a nation to protect its national identity and core values of the people in order for government to remain legitimate in the eyes of the people. I also agree that Anglo-Saxon cultures do have tendency to divide and conquer. They strive for domination of other regions by imposing their own values and plunging nations into civil discord and through ensuring chaos putting themselves ahead. Yet as the whole, these ideas are ill-thought out and does not stand to academic scrutiny at its core claims.
You forgot Eurosiberia concept by guillaume faye
The fact that a so-called "eurasian sphere" consists of so many desperate regions and peoples who's only shared trait is a border with Russia really gives the game away...
ah yes Tajikistan, my favourite country that shares a border with Russia...
Also the fact that "Eurasianism" is anti-anglosphere/western but Russia is mostly Communist and that ideology started with Marx who was so western he assumed Britain would be the first adopter. Its literally a rejected western/anglo idea thats the core of the "anti western" block. (It was rejected for good reason)
This stuff is awesome!
The idea that the South must forever depend or be connected to their immediate north is absurd. Oceans also connect places, and so South America and Africa, Europe and North America, Africa and South Asia, for example, can, will and have had long meaningful relations with one another.
@Gery A Funny how that used to be said about East Asia less than 100 years ago too.
@Gery A Are you ready to welcome your chinese overlords ?
They are dependent because of imperialism and neo-colonialism, its not absurd.
Great work!
Well this didn't age well. Dugans ideology became more ethno centrist and politically authoritarian, and Russia became more belligerent and militarily ambitious resulting in a massive loss in Russian and Eurasian confidence.
wonderful presentation and video