Thanks to @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee for the following summary and turning me on to the linked excellent summary of the book.
Foundations of Geopolitics was published in 1997 by Aleksandr Dugin. It outlines how Russia can become the world’s dominant superpower without warfare. It is taught in Russia’s military officers school, Putin keeps a copy in his office, and it is Russia’s geopolitical playbook. Dugin is still closely involved with Putin and Russian intelligence, and so was his daughter, who was murdered in a car bombing that was likely meant for him.
Under the section for the United States, it says:
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.
That sounds like a wild conspiracy theory to me. We don’t need any more conspiracy theories as we get enough from the right.
You might actually want to read the link before you open your mouth and prove yourself stupid.
This is the book that drives Russian foreign policy, and is entirely responsible for the global rise of the far-right. Dismissing it as a “conspiracy theory” marks you as either a Russian-compromised stooge, or an idiot.
Funny thing is my conservative parents have been talking about this book since like the 80s or early 90s? Or perhaps a predecessor that basically was an instruction list of how to take out America (make schools dumber, sow racism, etc) through infiltration or something.
Now they are Fox News worshipers and very much in line with Trump and his policies. They are exactly the people that have fallen for this plan and it’s maddening because they fucking KNOW about it
It was published in 1997. Time flies when you’re resisting oppression.