For
decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission,
and that destroying an independent Ukraine was necessary to fulfilling
it.
By James Verini
In August, 2022,
six months after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, a cultural festival
named Traditions was held outside Moscow, at the onetime summer retreat
of Alexander Pushkin. The star speaker was Alexander Dugin, a scholar
and a prominent proponent of the war who has been called the prophet of
the new Russian Empire. - In his book “Being and Empire” (2023), which
runs to a Heideggerian length of seven hundred and eighty-four pages,
Dugin characterizes Russia as nothing less than “the last place of the true subject of history in time and space.”
- His lecture at the festival, “Tradition and History,” was as sprawling
as its title suggested. Sitting under a canopy, he extemporized on the
seasonal labors of the Russian peasantry, finding in the pre-modern past
the “secret center” of the nation’s spiritual life.
For
Dugin, the greatest enemy of Russia is liberalism, which he has defined
as the “false premise that a human is a separate, autonomous
individual—a selfish animal seeking its own benefit. And nothing more.” 
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