Russian Nationalist Advocates Eurasian Alliance Against The U.S.

[Purveyor]

MOSCOW -- Writer, political activist and father figure for contemporary Russian nationalism, Aleksandr Dugin is the founder of Russia's International Eurasian Movement and a popular theorist among Russia's hard-line elite. He envisions a strategic bloc comprising the former Soviet Union and the Middle East to rival the U.S.-dominated Atlantic alliance. The Times interviewed Dugin this week at his Moscow office, a room draped with flags bearing the slogan "Pax Russica." The following are excerpts.

What is your assessment of Russia's place in the world now, and how should Russia be behaving with respect to the West?

First of all, I advocate strongly a multipolar construction of the world. I think that the pretension of the United States to be the unique pole of the world . . . is completely wrong, immoral and unacceptable by the other great centers of power.

We support the creation of great space, a few great spaces, instead of only one point of decision, the United States' decision. We think Russia should be in the vanguard of this process.

We consider -- not only myself, not only I, but our political chiefs -- we consider that in Georgia, Saakashvili has committed not only a moral crime, but also he tested what is behind the Russian words, behind the Russian protests against American domination. They wanted to test up to which point is this only words, and what Russia could oppose directly, in concrete acts.

Many in the West believe that Moscow deliberately provoked a confrontation over Georgia's breakaway republics. Who do you believe is responsible for the eruption of armed conflict?

It was too risky for us to begin it. And I think, also, that as long as I have known Putin and Medvedev, they would like to avoid at any price direct confrontation with the United States.

Their idea was that they should gain the time to prepare Russia to attack or to withstand the possible attack of the United States, and they needed 10 years. The reaction of Putin -- of Putin and Medvedev -- was such as it was only because they considered this an offensive, impossible and unacceptable provocation from the Georgians. And that was a reaction, not a planned strategic offensive. . . . were not ready to start by themselves, by their will, such a difficult situation and a difficult war that doesn't seem to end. We political analysts we see that we could start such a war, but we could not end it.

It is very far from the end. It is only the beginning of a real, and maybe very serious, and very dangerous for all of the sides, confrontation between us and Americans.

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[PDJane]

1. One was waiting for this...........

[NeoTheo]

2. Well, America should wake up and realize

That one of the core concepts of the Neocon's, which they have written about since the late 80's, is their idea of a winnable nuclear war. They believe that they can maneuver Russia into a confrontation and knock out the Russian command and control centers before they can get a round off and we will then have them by the nads.

To say that this kind of thinking is insane is an understatement but, this has always been central to the Neocon's thinking. To me it is pretty clear at this point, that we are now being moved into the position with Russia in which we will find out, and sooner rather than later, if their plan can be successful or not. I think we will all be sadly, very sadly indeed, disappointed but, this is the position of which America has let herself get into.

[PDJane]

3. I agree.

It's ignorance and a massive amount of hubris.

[oldskool]

4. I was talking about this

and was called a commie,Vladamir,and Stalin. And was speaking
documented facts.