Review: Last War of the World-Island by Alexander Dugin
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BAKU - By virtue of physical location, Russia inherits a resolute role in global geopolitics. This explains why the United States and Russia cannot stop fighting because they have so many disputes in the latter’s periphery. Last War of the World-Island - Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia by Alexander Dugin expands on this notion and frames the American-Russian rivalry as a struggle between the sea and land power for global dominance.
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Watching this in April, 2022 in the aftermath of the Russian withdrawal from Kyiv and repositions of their forces in the Donbas. Prescient.
It's not prescience when Putin is using the book as a script for what to do. It's direction.
@@johnnysweet6606 Yes. And a very predictable direction as well…
it's not prescient, it's dugin laying down a political/philosophical roadmap that is designed to flatter and legitimize putin's ambitions by making them look like fate
There was never a "real" attack on Kiev. Maybe it was just a strategic move to devide the Ukranian forces. If you play RISK, you know what I'm talking about :)
@@isajloskidarko Of course, losing so many people and a 3 mile long convoy was all according to plan.
I would argue that his were not just predictions, but constitute a roadmap that the Russian elites in general, and Putin in particular, have fully adopted and are following to the best of their abilities.
We should consider this book to be a statement of intent and actively work counter act it
@@mr.factoid105 Yes.
Its a great book on geopolitics, I wonder if there is a book like it for the US or China.
You;re giving them too much credit in assuming they have constructed a coherent plan. Their incompetence should be obvious, as the botched invasion successfully reveals
@@AeneasGemini They seem to be running through these books like a check list. Much of what they have been doing is experimentation, which might explain the apparent lack of coherence.
Rivalry between Land and Sea power for global dominance... I have been studying classical geopolitics for 14 years and can tell you that this is an interesting book, but that's it. The framework does not correspond to global geopolitical reality but does fit within the Putin vision of Russia's philosophy of history, and so will be read and shared.
Rivalry between Land and Sea power for global dominance. That is as old as Troy vs Achaean . History is full of these rivalries. Persians vs Greeks. Roman vs Carthage. England vs France, etc
Seems like putin is trying to make this fantasy into a reality now with his invasion of Ukraine the question is can he achieve this without starting WW3 is what is to be determined
I'd say the sea power always dominates
@@Spartan-jg4bf sea power dominates the seas, that's why France couldn't do what the Normans did and conquer England.
@@Spartan-jg4bf yes, so far thats the trend since GREEKS beat the Trojans. The Romans actually learned to become a seapower to beat Carthage in the Punic War
Watching this in March 2022 is eerie.
Oceania vs the Eurasian union
This sounds like orwell world
Orwell was surely influenced by the ideas of british and american "seapower" thinkers like Mackinder and Mahan.
Well said.
@A piece of fucking sliced white bread! It would be very stupid for Europe to return to rule under a theocracy knowing what happened in the past with the Inquisition and religious feudalism...
A piece of fucking sliced white bread! I swear i see you everywhere
@A piece of fucking sliced white bread Careful, you'll cut yourself on all that edge
Look, call Alexander Dugin what you want, but he's bloody good at mapping the path-of-least-resistance for Putin and I'm surprised this video doesn't have more views. Excellent content, thank you CaspianReport
There is nothing new nor briliant with Dugin. He is simply reiterating multiple strategies that long have been used by various powers at different intervals in world history. And unfortunately, he misses the mark of what Russia - or any nation - should do, by many, many country miles.
The error of his thesis is that it's ahistorical. No land power has ever been able to dominate the globe. Maritime powers, because it's so relatively easy to project power globally, may become complacent and even shortsighted but they have never been nor will ever be outcompeted globally by a land power. If the US ever falls, it will be replaced by some other maritime power, not a country which is limited by it's geography. Dugin has apparently learned no lessons from the Russian empire and it's successor, and here we go again.
Just as tanks are becoming obsolete to the power of shoulder missiles navies may find their weakness. I’d say that weakness is probably that they’re so dependent on nuclear missiles which is that power that is either not used or only used once. Mutually assured destruction.
What about the Mongol empire?
@@connormurphy683 The horse is even more obsolete than tanks are today. But in their heyday they swept all of the Eurasian interior.
@@wesdonovan821 True. That link to maritime global trade makes your point totally.
@@mtn1793 That's what I'm saying, they were a land power that dominated Eurasia. So it's not impossible
For anyone interested in this book, I suggest also reading "The revenge of geography" by Rober Kaplan and "Seapower" by Stavridis.
You should add that the idea of the world island/heartland-theory originated from Halford Mackinder, an Anglo-Saxon geopolitical thinker who is also called the "father of geopolitics". Yet the comment section goes crazy, thinking that the world island-concept is Dugin's megalomania. Much of Dugin's proposals are merely an attempt to deal with the world in the way the Anglosphere sees it.
you are actually right. very interesting!
Hear hear~
Why do you call him "Anglo-Saxon"? The guy was a turn-of-the-century Englishman.
@@yarpen26 therefore, anglo-saxon.
@@rodrigomachado5291 It's like calling Napoleon Gallic.
Ah shirvan is back I like your voice
"Im your host Shirvan and welcome to a review for the bookshelf" ahhhhh
Shirvan relaxation levels > Bob Ross relaxation levels
Dude, get a life.
@@WolfCourtaud says the guy making dumb comments.
Shirvan, we need a video explaining the reasons behind the 2003 iraq invasion.
one similar to the video u made on the 2008 financial crises.
Like if u agree!
415City You know it's in the interest of China and Japan to also keep the USD high so their cheaper currencies can keep Chinese and Japanese exports competitive against the US? That whole oil theory sounds very flawed and convenient, I think the stupid intelligence agencies coupled with an even dumber Murican hero president just really ran off false intelligence from that Iraqi whistleblower.
Simple. The US tried to hit Iran but missed. JK. They wouldn't do as the US commanded and were an easy target. It was just another domino to fall to weaken the middle east so the r0+h(h!lds (I purposely misspelled the name of this banking family) could take over the world.
GreaterGood510 USD and the Pound sterling. Britain took on a major role.
@Adi Rice You should check out State of War by James Risen.
It lays out the inner workings of the Bush administration/US intelligence community, along with backstory, & why war was pursued.
Yes please!
There are no objective videos about iraq
Crazy that Dugin's stuff is going mainstream now.
@Pinerk2 sure, buddy
@Pinerk2 lets be honest, china owes russia for still existing
@@salamander4668 and both of them owe the USA for still existing and then to get wacky we all owe the 300 Spartans otherwise we'd be all Persians doing Persian things.
@@oO-_-_-_-Oo are you refering to ww2? Sorry to crush your manyaworld, but when the US opened second front, germany was basically done for.
@@salamander4668 Specifically referring to before America entered the war the Americans had been giving Russia what it needed otherwise Russia wouldn't have been able to stay in the fight and we did the same for China to defend itself from Japan and then when Maos communists forced the Chinese nationalists to flee to "Taiwan" in exile who we continued to support. You didn't know about it it's it's good you do now.
Russia's part in the world economy is 1,6%
How they plan to become a world power???
Before making war they should have improved their economy at least 🤦🏻♂️
dugin is a lickspittle whose job it is to make putin look like an agent of history rather than a bloodthirsty oligarch. his vision for russia is absolutely delusional. it's shocking that it's carried him as far as it has, but i think given how disastrous the war in ukraine has been so far, it's about to be the end of the line for him.
(Also, dugin's idea that russia is the "leading land power" in eurasia, or has historically always been that, is pretty fucking laughable. maybe during the late 20th century that was true for a while, but at basically any other time in human history the idea is at best debatable and at worst complete nationalist-mythological horseshit.)
Yes
....by expanding and taking over the Middle East.
How did a small province on the Italian peninsula become one of the world's great empires ? Expand and take over key trading routes that came from or through the Middle East.
this idea is beyond the competency of the KGB government.
@@1969cmp Rome became powerfule mostly due to their oeganisation and doctrines really. They didn't need to control the trade routes to beat the Greeks Etruscans, Gauls and Phoenicians. And once they did those things they were the biggest guy in the mediteranean and then took control of the trade routes.
Is China mentioned ? It seems a larger and closer rival to Russia then the USA. India if it ever go its act together would also be a formidable impediment to Russian ambitions.
So would a unified European state, or a unified middle eastern Caliphate or something similar.
China’s economy is dependent on the United States, if the US were to be taken out, it would collapse and undergo Balkanisation very quickly. China also shares the United States’ characteristic of being a multiracial and multicultural empire, which makes it more inherently unstable than Russia, which is relatively more homogenous
it's completely untrue. Russia is also multiracial and multireligious power. Orthodox vs Islam vs Atheist. Different ethnicities in all around Russia. Conflict of identity (European vs Asian or Eurasian. It's the same stuff, but Russia is always painting dangers OUTSIDE of it's country. If you want to look at Russia objectively, you have to have some distance to Russian point of view. Cheers.
FreshWholeMilk China has been a polity since the Bronze Age. It’s current phase of external trade is less then 30 years old. I think it would survive the end of American hegemony. For that matter Russian expansion only dates to the 15th century. Relatively recently in the scheme of Eurasian history . There are several older more stable, richer, politys in Eurasia that might prick Russia’s bubble.
AFAIK Dugin also has a plan what to do with China-its insidious cooperation. He proposes to destroy China from within while using its power and ambitions to destroy US hegemony, however, the conflict with Bejing will happen after the US is get rid of. The plan is to essentially divide China into smaller states as I understand. As for India-I don't know.
If you replace "Russia" by Eurasia , then he's correct . Yes , Orwell come true .
"Dugin is like a dangerous concoction of Zgniev Brazinkski and Steve Bannon" Brilliant.
So less dangerous then lol?
So that we know the danger is global.
Update :*YIKES*
Crazy how relevant it is today
Shirvan, I really appreciate your videos, which help us understand the strategy behind what is happening. Well done and very informative. Keep up the good work!
I've discovered this channel several days ago, and it blows my mind. thank you very much for your great work - it is mind-changing.
Why does Russia need to expand when like 90% of its land is already unpopulated?
>lack of geographical defenses
Can someone please answer me, why massive forests and swamps aren't considered to be "geographical defenses"?
Admiral Firespammer World War One and World War Two. Possibly Napoleon.
Marcos Lissalde or deserts or mountains.oh you mean Ukraine.
Because it makes them more proud and make them love their leader even more.
Exactly....it's illogical and because of completely stupid backward idiots like Dugin that there is endless conflict
What can I say, the man is a Russian national who has an idea or a vision for the future of his country that he believes would increase the strength and certainty of Russia's position in the world. It is certainly not a future that cares about liberty or ecenomic prosperity, but it is a future nonetheless.
it cares about life and dasein, it opposes rimland satanic liberalism
Would love to ask Dugin how is that future looking now
@@Intedujag They are only "rimlands" from the "Eurasian" perspective
If it isnt about economic prosperity or at least some sociological propserity then at best its oppressing your own people and neighbour countries for the sake of collectivist ego stroking, at worst its a damn cult. The modern russia really is a cult, they are willing to give up any kind of freedoms, economy or progress for simple expansion in the name of their cult leader, tsar Putin. I have never met more irrational nation in my life.
But we are at an all or nothing precipice. Either all peoples are brought together or we have mutually assured the end of our species and era upon the planet, that one true world island. We are only guests here and not very good guests at that.
An interesting man. But definitely puts to much importance on Russia. There are other contenders for ruler of the world island.
yes
Visegrad vs Germany/France/Spain really hard to see how that will turn out. A lot hinges on the result.
Venetian Princess Boldrin true it has a lot of land, but it lacks both population and capital. Which makes it very fragile internally and indefensible externally.
Venetian Princess Boldrin Russia couldn’t even beat Afghan Islamist. How do you expect a state who can’t even do that conquer and oppress India, China, Western Europe, and an islamic Middle East.
...a resource economy half the size of Germany ... it has land mass and nukes, is that enough?
Dugin is like the History Channel _after dark_ some of his points stick but they are burried under a massive landslide of pure rubbish.
Hence the need for aliens to guide our tarnished ways. Haha!
@@mtn1793 Ah, a Posadist.
It’s not pure rubbish and it’s about 50-50
George Orwell's vision of the world, divided into three blocks, Oceania, Eurasia and East Asia (China) seems to be looking more of a reality than ever.
This suddenly got very relevant.
You should do an update on this
It's not a precient book, but a self-fulfilling prophecy, given that this madman had Putin's ear.
watching this again in the light of the current events. very telling.
Who is here in 2022 February?
Thank you very much for this VDO.
I enjoyed it quite a bit.
So if he wants to include more Asian and Islamic elements into Russian culture, and appears to be fine with reworking Russian culture as a whole, then I don’t understand his argument about Russia disappearing from the world stage. At that point wouldn’t “Russia” already disappear if Russian culture is being revised at such an extent to appear more Eurasian?
I think when he speaks about Russia disappearing he means the russian totalitarian-oligarch state...
The Kenyan speech at the UN sums up perfectly the failure of Russian dependence on hard power. African countries’ borders have nothing much to do with geographical barriers. But by improving their wellbeing and integrating with their neighbours they can avoid the need. Neither does the US and Canada’s. Or Germany and Poland. Sweden once colonised Finland but now their border is pretty arbitrary. If Russia wasn’t everyone’s enemy, they wouldn’t fear everyone. It won’t secure their status as a super power. It just uses hard power where they have no soft power. They’ve shown themselves not even to be third place after China in hard power, but China also has soft power. Soon countries like India and Indonesia will take that position anyway. Countries that will have both.
Tbf, it's not reasonable to expect the whole 'integrate with neighbours' thing, if only because that's simply not feasible for an authoritarian regime and they clearly won't willingly sign their own death warrant.
Obviously it's their choice to have a government full of bad actors, but the West needs to take into account that bad actors will act badly when it comes to international politics. So if the West behaves in a manner that would provoke the regime, then they are at least partially responsible for how said state responds
@@AeneasGemini that’s absolute victim blaming and blaming those attempting to offer a security arrangement to the victim parties. That amounts to don’t blame the dog that it bites. A country is not a dog. It’s fully in Russia’s capacity not to slaughter its neighbours. Expecting not to act out your interests because someone will do the wrong thing is a coward cop out. A very Russian style of morality. If your neighbour beats his wife and you try to offer her refuge, is it your fault he beats his wife? The only thing the West is guilty of here is not responding adequately the previous time Russia violated Ukraine’s sovereignty, and by the way their own agreement with Ukraine. Part of that same agreement, which was pushed by the US btw, was that Ukraine hand weapons back to Russia in good faith. That means nothing to Russia, because perpetrators always have a victim mindset. Do what you ought to do in life not what bad faith actors convince you you should.
@@Freshbott2 the returning of arms to Russia honestly was a good idea. Ukraine was a massive participant in black market arms dealing so I'm very glad that Russian nukes weren't being sold to the highest bidder
@@Freshbott2 The Minsk Agreement was the security agreement that would have ensured peace. But Ukraine broke it by bombing the Donbass.
@@kwekspeps7207 by bombing their own territory? Try again
Dugin is pissing against the wind. Not a chance.
I really like that analogy
Doesn't mean they don't seem to be giving it a whirl anyway. Since like was mentioned a lot of current events are lining up with his "predictions".
dugin makes himself out to be a fanatic war mongerer who hilariously doesn't understand that the more you attack other countries then the more you get invaded and retaliated against.
A piece of fucking sliced white bread! i didn't say russia now did i? i said dugin specifically for being the one pushing for that shit, as well as some of the "elite" troglodyte's in moscow.
A piece of fucking sliced white bread! as for "war mongering in ukraine" that's a failed argument, russia violated international law by invading/annexing the crimean peninsula which was part of sovereign ukraine, and no evidence provided of a vaguely referenced "ethnic cleansing"
Забавно наблюдать, как под музыку всерьёз рассуждают о политических взглядах Дугина.
Спустя три года (или даже больше), это уже ни разу не смешно. По причине событий которые просиходят в текущее время.
I've just reviewed this video in March of 2022. And I am very glad that Russian army is not so shiny these days, as it was expected.
The title of this book has a very different meaning now...
@MrSinister Actually I don't argue with Russian bots.
What's funny is these clowns who drink west's cool aid distribution from west's MSM don't seem to do any individual research. The clowns think the 160k kids (conscripts) Russia send in are the Russian army. Wake t f up. Russian active military personnel is 1.2 million and they have a reserve of another 2 million and if it were life and death of a situation for Russia, then they have a pool of 37million.
They freaks that drink the MSM cool aid has no clue on a country's military. Go learn these things. Go learn about the military personnel of china, india etc etc.
It's like what Proxima Midnight said in infinity wars. "What we have is blood to spare".
If for some reason say 100k to millions of Russian armed forces perish, then it's freaking nuclear doom for whoever participated in killing of those russians
CnN bOtS.
cnn bots
Dugin has praised Ghengiz Khan's Mongol empire as a great "Land Power" model. He also says Russia is part of Turan civilization, inheriting from the Golden Horde. Dugin pushes Russia to expand just like the Mongol empire.
Mongols been ruling Russia ever since. you're sleeping in elephant's ear.
Modern Russia really is a mongol project. They may be white (at least) partially, they may even be Christian, but they were never truely european.
The reason for that is purely historical. When duchy of Moscow received its independence from The Golden Horde its first move wasnt to conquer back the old rus territories that they were claiming they owned a heritage of. The first move was to consolidate the broken gooden horde territories - khanates of kazan, siberia etc. hence they inevitably absorbed those territories culture and ideas. They never left them since.
@@fungunsun1 Kamil Galeev would disagree with you in that point: he argues that Muscovy was far more autocratic than the Golden Horde or its successor states (such as the Khanate of Crimea), but that this autocracy was made possible by the Tsars' use of Tatar henchmen (who as Turkic Muslims in a Slavic Orthodox land, were in no position to side with the locals against the Tsar).
@@fungunsun1 Russia is more Asia than European many Russian Republics aren't Christian but Buddhist and Muslim Republics and yet than manage to Unite in one Federation called Russia.
@@inter3684 Kalmykia, Buriyatia and Tuva Republics are descendants from the mongols Russia is so big its a multi ethnic federation.
I always really appriecate your book reviews, they have given me tons of books to read. I'd love if you'd do one on The Accidental Superpower. Great book with a fascinating, albeit scary for anyone not in the US or Oceania, prediction of the near future.
Given current events, this is horrifying
Well unless China wishes to take over the role of world island I guess for the foreseeable future that this last war has just been completed. Russia has been handed a death sentence economically and I’d be surprised if there is still a Russian state on world maps by 2030.
For once corruptions seems to have been a force for good in hindsight.
Yes. Even more horrifying when you consider that each selfish little national power base has its own Dugin spewing poison to its individual psychopaths and military industrial complex.
It seemed appropriate to watch this again and to repost it on social media given the current war in Ukraine.
nazbol gang is coming to you soon.
USA planned warin Ukraina in 1992
read Zbignew Brzezinski
@@geoeconomics5629 hahaha 🤣🤣🤣
@@lbwalker4694
hahahahaha😂😂😂😂
USA is scared of Russia to death
RUSSIA is in the HEARTLAND
@@geoeconomics5629 Brzezinski was not part of the US government in 1992. He's a Democrat. James Baker was a secretary of state at the time and both he and President George HW Bush actually tried to keep the Soviet Union together. Bush actually railed against anarchic nationalism in Ukraine.
But I would love to see your source
Watching this in 2022
I like how you ended this review, this is Russia´s version of the American "Manifest Destiny" doctrine.
Dugin is really overestimating Russia. Russia never played any role on the world stage for most of history until recently and I don’t expect it to remain a world power for long
THIS^^^
Of course he will overestimate it. It is his country. Just like how other nations do.
I agree with the first part, although in all fairness, the Russian empire used to be huge, terrifying, and rich. Like really rich. Of course, like most monarchies, they pissed it away until people overthrew them. With that said, they could never keep up with Western technology, although the Soviets really gave us what-for in the beginning of the post-war global order.
1721 1814 1830 and 1950 was the time when Russia played one of the most important roles in the global history
-Dismemberment of Georgia and Ukraine: 2008/2014 check
-Alliance with Iran: Check
-Pulling Turkey away from the West: ongoing
-Pulling UK away from Europe: 2016 check
-Fueling instability within the US: 2016 check
Wow. It sounds like Russia is following Dugin's plan pretty closely.
2022.update?
@@bcbp14 Yes... Very much a yes
@@Fingolfin_the_Warden query, who is Putin's advisor?
@Rocket recognition of two new independent areas in Donbass. New regime in Ukraine and its demilitrization. Or putin takes all of it.
@Rocket Putin plans to make Ukraine a Russian state. He may have planned genocide too. May the Lord have mercy on his soul, 'cause no-one else will.
So It's like Mein Kampf but Russian edition.
it doesn't considers any race as inferior tho, just states that western imperialism and american unipolar hegemony should be challenged by Eurasian multipolar world order
no, his idea is about creating strong eurasian state together with all the people who live in there.
LoL, that's so stupid dude
@@babla69420 All aggressive nationalism is based on the will for superiority I’m afraid.
@@mtn1793 yes u should be afraid
in Russia we call him the modern day Rasputin. it is up to you to decide what it means...
he controls Putin like Rasputin controlled the Tsar
Does he fucks up with Putin?😳
And it was all going according to plan and then Vladimir singlehandedly galvanized the West and strengthened NATO defense spending and most likely helped add two more members to the north of Russia. 👏 From Russia, with love!
NATO is US led. US economy will collapse under Biden/democrats in like what, 2 years or so. After that NATO will be disbanded right away.
Irony
What does Dugin think about the rise of Chinese power? He seems to have a place for Japan in his worldview, but China isn't mentioned in this video.
He consider China as a big threat and has to be dismantled. Eventually china have to provide anything Russia needs to conquer Pacific Ocean.Unfortunately, a lot of Russians share similar fascism ideology...Media in the west always consider China and Russia Ally.It's not true. Most of Chinese will only see Russia as a leverage to against the US.That's depending on how much pressure US put on China.Russians actually want to integrate into west so badly ,however always got rejected . Putin even wanted to join nato when he took the power. They seem to have some identity problem culturally.No wonder dugin's theories become more popular in Russia.
i think china becaming superpower is something new. she was not given much value in 1990s
I think Seapower by James Stavridis is a good book on the American perspective(Land vs Sea). This channel reviewed it a few months ago so I would recommend watching that episode as well.
I'm Russian born/living in Baltics and I really hope that taking back Baltics won't become more than just an idea in the book. Russians from Russia with their rudeness combined with corrupted bureaucratic machine is something I wish to forever avoid.
We in Ukraine feel exactly the same. Unfortunately it’s already ongoing so all we gotta do is kill the bastards.
How large a percentage of those still in Russia might see themselves as resistance members if given the chance? I’m curious just how deeply Putin has been accepted.
Go to Bucha to see how Dugin's vision has panned out.
I was being following this chanel for 6yrs, i recently found this documentary the the funny think is my teacher told me about this last war 2005 in somalia like same plan where Russia and Islamic countries will fight against USA, UK & Western .
Ok the first 2 minuts are spot on,4 years later things are much clearer.
Alexander Dugin and his Geo-Political theory is far from insane. You have to remember he is talking about a geopolitical process here and everything he says about History and Russia is very accurate, and it does not surprise me at all that he has successfully predicted certain world events. The whole difference between or conflict of interests between, The Ocean Power [Thalassocracy] and The Land Power [Tellurocracy] has many historical examples from Athens and Sparta, Britain and France, America and Russia. If you consider Marxism but, Geography and the tectonic shifts of States replace concepts like class war. Hitler's racial theories can apply and can certainly be exploited as a "Divide and Conquer" tactic as it has always been used but, one's own territory or "Homeland" trumps skin colour. The Historical Materialism is there, but the dialectic is between borders and Nations, Not between Class's.
it's 100% insane
@@angusmatheson8906 I do know what you mean, and I'm certainly not going to disagree with you. All I mean when I say "It's not insane" is it has both method and appeal for someone like Vladimir Putin. A Russian Dictator looking to make problems. If you know your Russian history and If you're a Dictator like Putin who wants to criticize "The West" and also, anything and everything outside the Russian sphere of influence is either a threat or a possible opportunity, you can see how every excuse needed to mess with the international political stage is all there ready-made for him. Complete with every argument to help confirm "I'm right, You're wrong, and it's just the way things are!"
Thank you. Added to my reading list.
this was interesting. appreciate the review of this book. first hearing about this man.
Dugin’s fever dream resembles the conflict between Athens (a “democratic” sea power) and Sparta (a totalitarian land power with Persian connivance). Both sides bled each other white fighting for imaginary dominance. Then Macedon, a “more efficient” totalitarian land power, took over, then Rome: a mixed power mostly totalitarian, both land and sea capable. The medieval Dark Ages saw the triumph of land-based Hunnish tribalism over the sea-based commerce of Western Rome, with its Muslim/Turk equivalent in the Med against Eastern Rome. Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization was destroyed by the tin-for-bronze global trading network’s collapse (by what series of unrecorded cataclysms?) that swapped mass trade for mass pillage thereafter. The ongoing conflict between the Chinese imperial land power and “pirates” home-based, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Western or otherwise, also illustrates this dichotomy. All this just to establish my analytic credentials inferior to yours so much sharper in real-time. Congratulations!
Wholesale civilized collapse is the ultimate purpose and outcome of Dugin and like-minded dreamers of unilateral conquest, like U.S. Neocons. Psychopaths thrive in chaos until it kills them and everyone else. Gotta get their kicks where they can manufacture them. Screw the breakage.
The constant thread that runs through this psychohistory is the nonstop effort of conscience-amputee psychopaths who rule both sides of every socio-ethnic-religious divide, to interrupt and forbid peace craved by every healthy conscience. We the conscience-driven outnumber the psychos by at least 25 to one. However, by the nonstop applications of violence, terror and information deprivation, this tiny information elite has persuaded us (the information proletariat) to fight one another against our will and better judgement. The five thousand year Reich of psychopaths in charge of world media and its monologue media can always drum up war tensions with another us/them duology. It does not matter what race, nationality, ideology or other cosmetic distinctions they use to mark “Us” off from “Them”, as long as blood flows.
Once the world majority of human conscience recognizes itself and organizes itself to overcome the hellish hierarchy of international psychopaths, every ideological, racial, national “debate” will become meaningless within a context of homogeneous world peace ruled exclusively by the sociosane and the psychosane. How very boring for psychopaths! No such terms are allowed by the info elite. Really? Until then, go ahead and try to figure out which side of the latest death match we should be fighting “for” until we and civilization are dust. The Dr. Strangelove B-52 pilot riding a bucking nuke down to oblivion: that is the current world leadership imposed on us.
You've lost your mind.
@@Biomancer666 Those who have lost their mind thinking about this insane world you appear to approve of, have regained their senses compared to your self-abandoned, orthodox, permissive insanity.
@mark mulligan : Very well said. Dugin is for COMMUNITARIANISM. Those who think Putin is fighting the NWO (he's got legions of fanboys) who don't get it. There is the BRI (belt & road initiative) or the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). The US gets nearly *ALL* of its finished pharmaceuticals from India or China. China makes 75% of the worlds active pharmaceuticals from both countries
Someone must have watches a lot of Whatifalthist
The fact is you can't defeat someone with a knife - and happy to use it - with a logical argument. Life needs to be aggressive to get anywhere, but that leads nowhere. That's why the universe is so empty. Assuming any if this is actually real.
Shivon! The man had a picture of Czar Nicolas on the wall..!
Thank you for plowing through what might be a tedious book.. I would comment. What is the difference between a Russian plan for manifest destiny and the American paper, “A Project for a New American Century”. In short it says that no nation should be allowed to rise to the level where it can challenge the US..Different routes to the same end..
PNAC has already failed.
@@PrimericanIdol That's what this conflict is about.. Ukraine is a hapless pawn..
That last sentence, about "Russia's Manifest destiny", was an excellent sum-up of the video, and the topic at large!
Excellent video
He also thinks Hyperborea and Atlantis actually existed, and has some creepy mystic and apocalyptic ideas about the future.
Something about how the USA/Atlanticism vs Russia/Eurasianism is the continuation of an ancient war between Atlantis and Hyperborea, as the sea power vs the land power. Also, I think there was something about how after this apocalyptic war, the world would be reborn as a spiritualist and traditionalist place like in this mythic past.
Good for him.
Vity viktor It's talking about the end of the kali yuga, and the renewal of this societal cycle
@@Vityvikt0r Finno-Korean Hyperwar?
@@Vityvikt0r technically hyperborea is a real place. Really it's just a vague place north east of Thrace
*wants to ban the internet*
-Ok he is out too far gone crazy.
>massacre ukrainian? Meh
>control all of eurasia? Meh
>ban internet? THIS GUY IS *NAZI*
The truly sinister folks are the types who want to get away with actions like the two first things, the internet even when saturated with junk-data full of irrelevant information can thankfully still be used as a tool to expose any such action.
Everyone else would just immediately find out about it one way or another. Pushing for an information black-out like that gives the assholes of the world the luxury of keeping things under wraps easy and it makes people 100% dependent on governments and institutions again.
Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Tarik360 the last part, is that a quote? If so from who?
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Kinda silly that a game of all things makes a point that good.
not really, games have advanced in writing in quality to challenge most well books today. Video games are now in my eyes at least an honorable artistic field.
It's good to hear Shirvan's narration back....I'm sure in the Caspian Report office, given the experimentations in narration, there is confusion over why anyone would like to listen to Shirvan's stilted English....because...Because....It sounds incredibly cool...and he's able to communicate the nuances in his deliveries, which makes these bit sized reports highly informative....
Not sure stilted is the word. Just foreign accented.
Thanks you very much Sir. I am gonna buy this book 👌
Hello Shirvan, nice report as usual. Every kind of expansionist policies frighten me but that is just how the world functions these days. I don't want to agree with the Russian author but I must admit he is talking the truth. No matter if its the Islamic world, the West, China or any other super power they all look to expand and seek as much control as possible. Humans still haven't evolved to accept any other narrative sadly. As for Russia, I wouldn't discard all these claims so easily. Even though it suffers from keeping permanent internal cohesion it has certain goals that could be achieved in this sphere, so I wouldn't get surprised seeing the Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine become a part of Russian federation in one way or another. Then you have the Balkans. If Russia achieves its plausible expansion, we could maybe see in the future Russia expanding all the way to Adriatic sea over nations such as Montenegro. That would give Russia an enormous surge in wealth and prestige. I believe that with current natural resources of the Russian federation such country would be completely self sufficient. Scary idea in essence but don't shake it off just yet as impossible. Cheers! Keep up the good work!
no, it's not. we are living in the most peaceful period in world history, and of all the great powers only Russia has tried to annex a sovereign nation in it's entirety. Regardless, Russia is not in a position to do this at the moment and will probably not be able too for the foreseeable future. And as for being self-sufficient, that means in practice being a bigger north korea and dooming oneself to economic stagnation, like the soviet union.
@@user-cx9nc4pj8w You and I then must be livinig on two different planets because on the planet that I live in WW1 and WW2 happened where more than 70.000.000 people violently lost their lives. If you count in Chinese cultural revolution and all other disasters, on my planet more than 100.000.000 people died violently in the last 100 years. 100 years is not prehistory you know, so I don't know what is "The Most Peaceful Period" to you? Also on the planet that I live in USA annexed half of Mexican territory, China annexed Tibet, etc, etc. So I can't really agree with you on anything. Just like US didn't become North Korea for its annexation and China didn't become North Korea for its annexation, Russia also won't become North Korea for its annexation. Simple as that.
A superpower China is obviously the elephant in the room here, but this will likely be taken up by the Russian intelligentsia to some extent. Making alliances with illiberal forces in Europe and the Muslim world don't seem outlandish, but in any case the Sino-Russian competition in that realm will likely sideline Moscow... at least as a genuinely sovereign power.
Thats the thing, its a race against the clock. Russia has to anchor in Ukraine before it can even think about china stepping.
They already started making alliances with whackos all over Europe and the west. They have been working on this for well over a decade. Orban, Trump, MAGA crazies, Q, disinformation campaigns in Europe, Canada, the US.These are the tip of the Russian whackjob psyop warfare iceberg. Even in NZ we have a small but significant percentage of people sucking down the Kremlin line of bullshit like it's Ambrosia Of The Gods. I'm not saying RUSSIA DID IT EVERYTHING11!! what I'm saying is these people have existed always,and having a well funded state sponsored campaign denying reality and spreading bullshit far and wide especially in the Era of the internet has made it a cheap and powerful tool for Russia.
Thank you for the video.
I've been looking for this book, but along with other Dugin works, it's difficult to find in the US.
I think that the "overhauling of identity" is a good development. Russia is a huge country, with people of all kinds of beliefs, so a Russian identity that is in any way a function of a specific faith or other narrow characteristics is simply not going to work in uniting a vastly diverse population.
I was being following this chanel for 6yrs, i recently found this documentary the the funny think is my teacher told me about this last war 2005 in somalia like same plan whether Russia and Islamic countries will fight against USA, UK & Western .
Yaaay! Shirvan is back!!!
He never left.
This plan makes no sense - Dugin says Russia must expand dramatically, then says nationalism must be curtailed in order to build a sphere of influence and attract allies? How can you curtail nationalism and then sell expanding your country's borders?
I do not think when written,curtailing nationalism(Russian)Dugin was aware how much the Orthodox church was going to reestablish itself in Russia and other orthodox states..certainly in the re-building of Russian nationalism-Putin as seen this move.So, Orthodox (Russian) are going to abandon,or curtail their political and religious base in order to attract and curtail other nations/faiths into this new `island` empire?- don`t see it personally.By this action,Orthodoxy will be a minority religion within this `world-island` and again, lose its theological and political clout.
Would, could be said Russia re-establishing ties with many of her ex- `colonies ` ie Belarus.. and to build up something like the British Commonwealth.Also,to add, Dugin, im sure also never took into account a re-emerging politically, economic, China,whom will also be contesting many of these Asian states-`island `kingdom cannot have two `kings`.Here is a suggestion fit for the 21st century,how about actually Russia strengthening ties with its old nemesis,Western Europe,through support of economic cooperation,pricing much of Europe away from United States influence and control(politically ,economic and security)?
Dugin argues that Russians have to become more than just Russians, they have to self-identify as 'Eurasians'. He is talking about the same process as the European Union, where the various nationalities of Europe regard themselves as Dutch/German/Spanish/etc first, then 'European' also, as a new identity, complete with EU passport, etc. Dugin argues Russians/Chechens/Kazakhs/Tartars/Uzbeks will become 'Eurasians', with Eurasian Union passports, etc.
The plan is as shallow as all the other plans around the world which influence psychopaths.
Will the book be on Amazon eventually?
I thought the last war of the world island would be over whether Russia would be a European gas station or a Chinese one.
Ever since I found yuri bezmenov I've been wondering if the active measures against the west continued after collapse of ussr, I suppose dugin can answer that question.
Yes. the answer is yes.
@@angusmatheson8906 so I suppose the next question would be how much of our current degeneracy I due to ideological subversion and how much is due to destructive and/or evil forces within our own nations?
@@bilboblaggins7659 what do you mean by degeneracy, and what borders are you referring to? I ask because that word, in political context is often used by homophobes and racists as a dog whistle.
While I have to admit, Russia has had brilliant thinkers, they are far closer to an Asian worldview than a European one. That being said, Europe will never willingly come under the Russian fold without great struggle. I sense that as I am writing this in March of 2022, the great war that will rage without end is getting closer and thus more observable.
war between US and RUS never stops, i just pray that everyone can control and contain that war
Any Great War without end will end quite shortly in my opinion. End with a harsh human extinction.
Thank you. Thank you.
CaspianReport is nazbol GANG
Yes he seems insane and that world-island theory seem unfounded madness.
KommentarSpaltenKrieger 129394032 he wants to ban the internet. He is crazy and wrong
This guy is a fucking prophet
no, this guy never fucked anyone.
Where can I find a copy of the book? I can't seem to find it on any of the normal online stores.
During did not predict the future but people used his book as a reference to implement his ideas.
Sounds like his suggestions are not burdened by considerations of what is feasible. It’s one thing to suggest psy ops (and will still yet to see what fruits that would yield), but quite another to suggest grand scale socio-cultural-political engineering project for the entire continent. Especially by the thoroughly plutocratic state.
Sounds less than historical analysis and more like (dangerous) narrative creation. The terrifying truth is that some very important people are reading into his musings.
You guys need to think out of your boxe i mean the wast, the west i think really want to control Russia, because ot it Natural resource, i don't say that Russia is in the wrong but you too as bad if not worse.
I'm from north Africa and have seen what the NATO have done to lebya
is there any archive or torrent free links for people interested in the book but can't buy :D
Got my respect on covering a book even though you can't put an amazon link to it
The Heartland/World Island theory from Mackinder really only accounts for strategy from a geo-political strategic standpoint, and doesn't account for basic economics, logistics or population density.
Sure it's an outdated theory, but even 100 years ago, the most powerful truly global nations were maritime and the landpowers (Russia, India, China) were great powers in their respective regions only.
0:45 un-believable..
Yeah but these are not predictions from Dugin. Dugin has had a heavy influence on Putin(Putin called him his spiritual teacher), as well as being mandatory litterature in officer school in the Russian army. So it's more about Dugin influencing Putin and the Russian army to destabilize Georgia and Ukraine, and not Dugin predicting it would happen.
The truth is that long-term strategically it's absolutely nonsense. Now, Ukraina and Georgia is more Western friendly than ever before, the Russian population is more Putin-skeptic than ever before, and the Russian army is weaker than ever before. It's a strategical catastrophe, both Georgia and Ukraine.
Nice portrait of the Czar there.
This book is no longer available on Amazon :-(
This is like the Heartland Theory through Russia's point of view.
It is indeed
It always cracks me up when I hear about Russians funding and otherwise backing independence movements in American states like Texas, California, or Hawaii. When one considers how much Russian blood has been shed keeping the North Caucasus Russian since 1991 it makes sense that they would focus on such movements. It also makes me eternally grateful that the United States doesn't have centuries (or longer) of ethnic hatred to contend with in the same way that Russia does.
exemplary analysis!
Please, Video on impact of International Solar Alliance on geopolitics and OPEC.
I was listening to Dugan up to the point where he said “ ISIS marionettes of the West”
For all his learned arguments,, he is still delusional, and himself propagandised.
When you think of the Russian creativity and brain power lost in the past 80 years for various reasons, it really is a heartbreaking tragedy, but hopefully things move to a better chapter soon.
@@airbornepizza Fair point actually.
ISIS is not a west marionette but it's a result of US Iraqi invasion 2003
@@krimozaki9494 ISIS started in 1999 as a subgroup of Al Qaeda.
Obviously they got a lot more support and grew more violent as a result of the Iraq invasion, but saying it's a direct result is over-simplifying things and underestimating Wahabi fundamentalism and Islamic terrorism. Which would have existed whether the US existed or not.
@@Nabium with your same logic , na-zism in Ukraine exist with russian invasion or without it
I think West-East relations would be much better if NATO never expanded into the Baltic states. Yes the Russians might grumble that promises were broken when NATO militarizes former East Germany and includes Poland and the Czechs and the Slovaks, but they would get over it. The Baltic states are a step way too far, right on the border poised over the heart of Russia... I am surprised the Russian response was not much fiercer.
It certainly seems that things worked out better for those who leaned West judging by living standards alone. Not that those are the only metric that matters, but it is perhaps the most important one. But I am not talking about that. I am talking about relations between the nuclear superpowers. If these NATO moves which Russia perceives as extremely aggressive trigger a nuclear war then all of the prosperity and liberty experienced by the Baltic states won't be worth a damn anyway, they will be annihilated with nuclear and conventional weapons both, they would perhaps be the hardest hit countries. It is not an easy thing to say but maybe for the sake of global peace Russia should have been given its sphere of influence, if shrunk by losing Central Europe. Again if most of the people in ex-Soviet sphere countries don't want Russia then I support them in that, but when you consider that not only those countries but all of Western Civilization (NA, EU *and* Russia) might end up destroyed in WW3 is it worth it? The risk is so high since from a Russian PoV NATO is being incredibly aggressive (expanding towards the east, nukes in Turkey, the missile shield, support to Georgia and Ukraine, lethal weapons to the latter...), as I've said I am highly confused that Russia as as chill as they are about this. You'd think they'd brandish the red button 3 insults ago.
@Neko, Infact these types of aggressive exercises reduce the risk of conflict breaking out because it raises the stakes to the point where further escalation is pointless with nuclear armed states. Also "Western Civilization" does not exist in Geopolitics, there is just POWER and INTERESTS, you should look up the logic of strategy and read Clausewitz.
@ScarletDespair Maybe you should ask yourself why Russia was denied when it offered to join NATO.
@ScarletDespair With the current political elite of America, sure. However, if American leadership changes in its worldview and goals, I see no reason why the two countries couldn't be allies in the future. All that needs to happen is for leadership to become comfortable working in a multipolar world for that to happen. No world conquerors; just self-contained states without territorial ambitions.
The only mistake there was not bringing Russia into NATO also when there was a chance. World binding treaties of mutual security are the only hope for the future of our species.
The book is already available in Internet by free. I've just started reading and found some interesting historical knowledge put on that I've already had.
How do you find the book
@@hugoc1861 It's good idea to be read unless you have any prejudice about Russia and its history. The book presents the Russian history by geopolitical point of view.
Dugan is a proponent of "special Russian truth" (there's a 'bbc newsnight' clip). Take what he says with a grain of salt and few documentaries.
I got a much needed chuckle at the idea of this guy being ZBigs and Bannon's love child...
I hope the world shatters Putins' and Dugin's hopes.
I hope the world shatters all the war monger thinking which currently stampedes us towards the edge of extinction.
I hope Putin and Dugin will destroy western world.
Russia worries too much.
Chilling video
So happy Shirvan is back pleeeaaassee let it stay that way