Fly like an eagle, Darya Dugina

Pepe Escobar
posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted
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As a young journalist and analyst, one could see she would carve for herself a glowing path towards wide recognition and respect (here she is on feminism).

Not so long ago, the FSB was directly engaged in smashing assassination attempts, organized by the SBU, against Russian journalists, as in the case of Olga Skabaeyeva and Vladimir Soloviev. It’s mind-boggling that Dugin and his family were not protected by the Russian intelligence/security apparatus.

The key facts of the tragedy have already been established. A Land Cruiser Prado SUV, owned by Dugin and with Darya at the wheel, exploded in a highway near the village of Bolchie Vyazemy, a little over 20km away from Moscow.

They were both coming from a family festival, where Dugin had delivered a talk. At the last minute, Darya took the SUV and Dugin followed her in another car. According to eyewitnesses, there was an explosion under the SUV, which was immediately engulfed in flames and hit a roadside building. Darya’s body was burned beyond recognition.

The Russian Investigative Committee soon established that the IED – approximately 400g of TNT, unencapsulated – was planted under the bottom of the SUV, on the driver’s side.

The investigators consider that was a premeditated car bombing.

What is not already known is whether the IED was on a timer or if some goon nearby pressed the button.

What is already known is that Alexander Dugin was a target on the Myrotvorets list. Myrotvorets stands for a Center for Research of Signs of Crimes against the National Security of Ukraine. It works side by side with NATO collecting info on “pro-Russian terrorists and separatists”.

Denis Pushilin, the head of the DPR, took no time to accuse “the terrorists of the Ukrainian regime” for Darya’s assassination. The inestimable Maria Zakharova was more, well, diplomatic: she said that if the Ukrainian lead is confirmed, that will configure a policy of state terrorism deployed by Kiev.

An existential war

In several essays – this one being arguably the most essential – Dugin had made extensively clear the enormity of the stakes. This is a war of ideas. And an existential war: Russia against the collective West led by the United States.

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BY ALEXANDER DUGIN

CBO: the battle for the "end of history"! Twitter VK Odnoklassniki Blogger LiveJournal 15.08.2022

Alexander Dugin

On the philosophical meaning of SVO. SVO is inextricably linked with such a concept as the "end of history". And the point is not only that Francis Fukuyama, who wrote the famous text with the same name "The End of History", from the first day of the SVO actively joined the ideological struggle against Russia on the side of the Ukrainian Nazis and even personally joined the terrorist organization Bellingcat, which, by the way, tried to hijack a military aircraft in Russia. Although this fact itself is very expressive. The fact is that Russia directly opposes globalism , that “liberal totalitarianism” that President Putin openly spoke about, and this is an ideology , and the “end of history” plays a fundamental role in its structure.

The fact is that globalism, which is most fully represented in such international organizations as the Davos Forum of Klaus Schwab with his “Great Reset”, the Trilateral Commission, the American Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) or the Open Society Foundation of George Soros, insists on a complete the unification of humanity under the leadership of the World Government with the widespread dissemination of liberal ideology and the system of rules and norms based on it - including gender politics, LGBT +, extreme individualism and transhumanism. And this is the “end of history”, which is clearly premature, but still quite logical and was described back in the early 90s by Francis Fukuyama. The end of history is the victory of liberalism and the West on a global scale, which implies the abolition of any ideological, geopolitical, economic and socio-cultural alternatives . Fukuyama wrote his text when the USSR collapsed, and it seemed that Russia would not rise again, and China obediently followed the strategies of Western economic centers at that stage, rapidly being drawn into globalization. Later, Fukuyama admitted, including in a conversation with me, that he was in a hurry, but the end of the story, no matter what, remained and remains the goal of globalists.

Russia under Putin became an obvious obstacle to the end of history, and after the start of the NWO, it even threw a direct challenge to this project. Hence Fukuyama's fury: in front of his eyes, the project for the end of history was not only postponed, but completely collapsed . This also explains the frenzy and extreme intensity of frenzied Russophobia among the Western elites. Putin and Donbass dealt a blow to the global civilizational plan - the planetary domination of the liberal West.

However, the concept of the end of history is not the property of liberals . Moreover, they took her into service rather late. The philosopher Alexander Kozhev was the first to clearly describe the coming global victory of the liberal West, and Fukuyama only borrowed it from him. But Kojève, for his part, took it from Marx only by changing the triumph of world communism (the Marxist version of the end of history) to world capitalism , a planetary civil society and the ideology of "human rights". Actually for the Marxist understanding of the end of history in the 20th century. In the Cold War, there was a dispute over the interpretation of the end of history - whether it will be communist or capitalist. And it is no coincidence that Fukuyama wrote his program text exactly when the USSR collapsed. Then it seemed that the issue had been resolved and liberalism had finally won.

However, Marx himself, for his part, also borrowed this concept from a completely different political ideology - from the deeply conservative monarchist and imperial thinker Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. If we dig even deeper, we will come to Christian and even pre-Christian (primarily Iranian) eschatology, to the doctrine of the end times . But this will take us too far. put forward and substantiated the thesis about the end of history it was Hegel , and in the system of his philosophy it plays a key role.

According to Hegel , history is the process of the unfolding of the Spirit, which goes through nature, the change of religions and civilizations, until it reaches its culmination - the end will close with the beginning, alpha with omega. Having gone through many tests and dialectical turns, the Spirit that moves humanity will eventually incarnate in the Absolute Monarchy, in the world Empire, which will become the Empire of the Spirit . Power in it will be transferred to the highest autocrat, an enlightened monarch-philosopher . Capitalism and civil society will be only a stage in the unfolding of this process, and scientific materialism will pass to an angelic purely spiritual science. Hegel believed that this would happen in Germany (then the German Empire did not yet exist) and would be a triumph of German spiritual culture and philosophy. Bismarck, who created the Second Reich, relied on Hegel in the philosophical sense.

So, authentic interpretation of the "end of history" by the creator of this concept is the triumph of the World Spiritual Monarchy . And right-wing Hegelians - Russian Slavophiles or followers of Giovanni Gentili in Italy - thought so. The Germans themselves believed in the mission of their Reich. Slavophiles interpreted this as a prediction about the fate of the Russian Empire, when it becomes spiritual and popular. The Italians associated the end of history with the revival of the Roman tradition and the greatness of Italy.

Marx, who transformed Hegel's spiritual dialectics into his historical materialism (substantially distorting the original), agreed that liberal capitalism was only an intermediate stage, but put communism and a materialistic worldview in place of the Empire of the Spirit. Eschatology, on the other hand, was preserved - everything that the communists did was directed precisely towards the future, that is, towards the end of history. from the agenda German interpretation of the end of history Left Hegelianism defeated the right. And on a different level, the Russian Empire (albeit implicit) defeated the German one. That's when Kojève appeared with his liberal reading of the end of history. This theory was waiting in the wings, and after the collapse of the USSR, Fukuyama reminded the West of it, and the globalist centers picked it up and began to put it into practice. The unipolar world order was based on a liberal version of Hegelian eschatology.

And this is where Putin came in. Putin is a philosophical phenomenon , a turning point in the history of thought, in a complex battle of ideas and worldviews. From the very first moment in power, he began to restore the sovereignty of Russia. But this meant postponing the end of history , opposition to liberal totalitarianism, globalism and the World Government. Putin followed this line cautiously, often disguising his intentions and plans - as a Chekist and as a convinced realist. Sometimes, it seemed that he was ready to meet the globalists, but the next moment, it turned out that this was again just a maneuver. Hence the bewildered question: “Who are you, Mr. Putin?”

Only on February 24, 2022, the beginning of the NWO in Ukraine put all things in their place with all unambiguity. A new era of philosophy has begun . A new phase of world history. Putin has challenged the liberal interpretation of the end of history - that is, the main globalist project, the World Government. But here the most important thing begins: to refute the liberal reading of the end of history does not mean to abandon Hegel. After all, everyone knows that Putin loves to quote Ivan Ilyin, and he was just a right-wing Hegelian , a supporter of the Russian Monarchy and the great Empire. Clearly close to Putin and the theory of the Slavophiles. It is impossible to deny the philosophical idea based on some purely practical mundane - for example, purely economic - factors. This is not serious. An idea can only be defeated by an idea . And that means….

This means that the NWO as a philosophical phenomenon marks the return of the Empire. The return of Russia to the Empire, the complete restoration of our messianic futuristic destiny. Germany in its present state is no longer a competitor. The German version of the world Reich is irreversibly removed from the agenda. The communist project of the end of history is also abandoned, and in its best aspects can easily be incorporated into a new imperial synthesis (as "right-wing Stalinism"). We are opposed only by Kozhev and Fukuyama, who rely on the same sources, which are much closer to us. We are orthodox bearers of the Eurasian Empire of the End, they are also usurpers. And if we recall the Third Rome and the role of the Russian Tsars as carriers of the mission of Catechon, the Restrainer, then everything becomes even more fundamental, even than the very orthodox and read in the Russian (Slavophile, monarchist) context of Hegelianism.

That is how they philosophize with the Sun.

NWO is a battle for the meaning of the end of history. The great philosophical battle. It is time to close the page of exclusively materialistic, energy and economic interpretations - this is not just vulgar, it is wrong. History is the history of ideas.

They will ask, what does Ukraine have to do with it? Not at all. She does not. But it will be part of our new Empire. Only there, in the philosophical Kingdom of the unfolded Spirit, in the Empire of meanings, will it be reborn, blossom. In the meantime - well, what do we want from a terrorist regime headed by a comedian ... This is a misunderstanding. But Ukraine itself was destined to become the theater of a fundamental metaphysical battle. I think it's all about geography. We are fighting for the return of our historical Kiev cradle - from under the rule of the globalists to the rule of the Empire of the Spirit. Kiev is the beginning of our history. And that means its end.

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The SBU, NATO, or quite probably the combo – considering the SBU is ordered by the CIA and MI6 – did not choose to attack Putin, Lavrov, Patrushev or Shoigu. They targeted a philosopher and ended up murdering his daughter – making it even more painful. They attacked an intellectual who formulates ideas. Proving once again that Western Cancel Culture seamlessly metastasizes into Cancel Person.

It’s fine and dandy that the Russian Ministry of Defense is about to start the production of the hypersonic Mr. Zircon as it continues to churn out plenty of Mr. Khinzals. Or that three Mig-31 supersonic interceptors have been deployed to Kaliningrad equipped with Khinzals and placed on combat duty 24/7.

The problem is the rules have changed – and the SBU/NATO combo, facing an indescribable debacle in Donbass, is upping the sabotage, counter-intel and counter-diversionary dial.

They started by shelling Russian territory; spread out around Donbass – as in the attempt to kill the mayor of Mariupol, Konstantin Ivachtchenko; even launched drones against the HQ of the Black Sea Fleet in Sebastopol; and now – with the Darya Dugina tragedy – are on the gates of Moscow.

The point is not that all of the above is irrelevant in terms of changing the facts on the ground imposed by the Special Military Operation. The point is that an upcoming series of bloody psyops designed for pure PR effect can become extremely painful for Russian public opinion – which will demand devastating punishment.

It’s clear that Moscow and St. Petersburg are now prime targets. The Ukrainian ISIS is a go. Of course, their handlers have vast experience on the matter, across the Global North/South. All red lines are gone.

The coming of the Ukrainian ISIS

The cokehead comedian has duly pre-empted any Russian reaction, according to the NATO script he’s fed on a daily basis: Russia may try to do something “particularly disgusting” this coming week.

That’s irrelevant. The real – burning – question is to what extent the Kremlin and Russian intel will react when it’s fully established SBU/NATO concocted the Dugin plot. That’s Kiev terrorism at the gates of Moscow. That screams “red line” in bloody red, and a response tied to the reiterated promise, by Putin himself, of hitting “decision centers”.

It will be a fateful decision. Moscow is not at war with the Kiev puppets, essentially – but with NATO. And vice-versa. All bets are off on how the tragedy of Darya Dugina may eventually accelerate the Russian timetable, in terms of a radical revision of their so far long-term strategy.

Moscow can decapitate the Kiev racket with a few hypersonic business cards. Yet that’s too easy; afterwards, who to negotiate the future of rump Ukraine with?

In contrast, doing essentially nothing means accepting an imminent, de facto terrorist invasion of the Russian Federation: the Darya Dugina tragedy on steroids.

In his next before last post on Telegram, Dugin once again framed the stakes. These are the key takeaways.

He calls for “structural, ideological, personnel, institutional, strategic” transformations by the Russian leadership.

Drawing from the evidence – from the increased attacks on Crimea to the attempts to provoke a nuclear catastrophe in Zaporozhye – he correctly concludes that the NATO sphere has “decided to stand on the other end to the end. They can be understood: Russia actually (and this is not propaganda) challenged the West as a civilization.”

The conclusion is stark: “So we have to go all the way”. That ties in with what Putin himself asserted: “We haven’t really started anything yet.” Dugin: “Now we have to start.”

Dugin proposes that the current status quo around Operation Z cannot last for more than six months. There’s no question “the tectonic plates have shifted”. Darya Dugina will be flying like an eagle in an otherworldly sky. The question is whether her tragedy will become the catalyst to propel Putin’s strategic ambiguity to a whole new level.