What Is the End Game for Russia?

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Wadugin's hope is to see the us. Retracting from europe and to see europe moving to he russia, under russian influence. The final kind of dream that we could see in his readings is like there wold be a very strong urasian word that would be largely controlling europe. Th now more than ever, that doesn't sound so terribly unlikely, does it? I mean, all the sanctions that have happened in the last couple of weeks will have the effect of cutting russia off further. There are these tetonic plates moving, and it almost feels like we are going towards a dugan style world. Well, we are going to

Freddie Sayers meets Marlene Laruelle.

Aleksandr Dugin, the ultra-nationalist Russian philosopher and erstwhile organiser of the National Bolshevik Party, has been referred to as ‘Putin’s brain’. Professor Marlene Laruelle, the world’s leading expert on Dugin, says his influence is no longer direct. Dugin stated mission is to preserve the "Russian soul" and expand the Eurasian empire in defiance of the West. Today, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and increasingly isolated global position feels like some of these visions have become a dark reality. Freddie Sayers sat down with Laruelle to seek a deeper understanding of the oft-quoted concept of the "Russian soul", what Dugin wants and how Putin might be able to help him get it.

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