Wonderfully observed, written. Vladimir Putin is a great and powerful soul, sent not just to pull Russia from the abyss, but to stop the dark forces running the world into the ground and to guide us all to a better future. Long may he prosper.
The longevity of his reign is extraordinary. Putin has endured because of his Faith which has given him an eternal perspective & temperament to endure. Also the Wisdom to make the right moves.
Well said, Professor Dugin. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin isn't just Russia's savior and guiding light, he is the world's preeminent statesman of this century.
That Kaja Kallas made a statement to the effect that DJT is not the leader of free world. She's absolutely correct, VVP is the leader of the Free World and she seems to have a problem with that
Мост Дугина в никуда: Почему «империя» Путина — это фантазия на грани краха
Панегирик Александра Дугина Владимиру Путину рисует романтический портрет российского президента как римского принципа — скромного строителя мостов (понтификса максимуса), соединяющего рушащуюся республику 1990-х и возрождающуюся империю. Путин, по этой агиографии, — заслугами заслуженный спаситель, который выдернул Россию из пропасти хаоса ельцинской эпохи, гармонично сочетая свои «два тела» — патриотического офицера безопасности и священного суверена, — чтобы проложить путь «спасения и успеха». История, настаивает Дугин, шепчет парадоксы в пользу Путина, венчая его «золотой короной» в день его именины. Но этот мистический нарратив рушится под тяжестью геополитических реалий, демографических апокалипсисов и социального кровотечения. Далеко не восходя к имперскому величию, Россия под Путиным мчится к фрагментации и нерелевантности. «Мост» Путина — не к империи, а к трапу с края мира. Давайте разберём иллюзии Дугина по пунктам.
Во-первых, империя Дугина предполагает суверенную Россию с нетронутой территориальной целостностью. Однако обширные сибирские просторы — её замёрзшие драгоценные ресурсы и пространство — зреют для захвата голодным соседом: Китаем. Дугин замалчивает асимметрию в русско-китайских отношениях, где военная экономика Москвы всё больше зависит от милости Пекина в продажах нефти, газопроводах и технологиях двойного назначения. Но под «партнёрством без границ» таится пороховой погреб. Экономика Китая, истощённая энергодефицитом на фоне замедления роста и проблем с импортом СПГ, смотрит на нераскрытые богатства Сибири — лес, минералы и пашни — как на спасательный круг для своих амбиций по ВВП. Мнение лидеров общественности предупреждает, что взгляд Пекина сместился с Тайваня на Дальний Восток России, где демографические пустоты (население российского Дальнего Востока рухнуло из-за пренебрежения) приглашают к оппортунистической экспансии. Исторические пограничные стычки, как конфликт 1969 года между Китаем и СССР, живут в памяти, а недавние трения по поводу газопровода «Сила Сибири-2» — задержанного торгами по цене и напряжённостью вокруг Тайваня — обнажают слабеющую руку Москвы. К 2030 году, когда Дальний Восток России превратится в китайскую экономическую колонию через неконтролируемые инвестиции и миграцию, полная аннексия — не гипербола, а временная шкала. В ближайшие пять лет ждите, что Пекин «вернёт» Сибирь не танками, а через свершившийся факт аренды и «совместных зон развития», поглощающих российский суверенитет целиком. Мост Путина? Это односторонняя платная дорога в Пекин.
Усугубляя эту территориальную угрозу, Россия переживает неизбежный демографический коллапс, который Дугин игнорирует, будто население — абстрактный иероглиф. Путин, возможно, стабилизировал постсоветский обвал, но его «спасительное» правление курировало рождаемость на уровне 1,4 ребёнка на женщину — далеко ниже уровня воспроизводства — и чистые потери миграции, усугублённые войной на Украине. Даже оптимистичные прогнозы ООН предсказывают падение населения России с 144 миллионов сегодня до примерно 128 миллионов к 2075 году, сокращение на 11%, которое маскирует «культю России» европейского ядра (примерно 100 миллионов без учёта спорных периферий). Пессимистичные модели российских демографов рисуют мрачнее картину: без массовой иммиграции (политически токсичной под ксенофобной риторикой Кремля) ядро славянского населения может сократиться вдвое до 50 миллионов через 50 лет, опустошив армию, рабочую силу и базу инноваций. Потери от войны — свыше 500 тысяч убитыми или ранеными к середине 2025 года — ускорили это, искажая пирамиду возрастов в сторону геронтократии. «Цветение и подъём» Дугина — мираж; империя Путина станет домом престарелых, охраняемым призывниками слишком редкими и хилыми, чтобы удержать линию.
Ещё хуже, это сокращение неравномерно — это целенаправленное уничтожение будущего России через исход её самых ярких молодёжей. Дугин восхваляет «гуманную» меритократию Путина, но репрессии превратили Кремль в обратный пылесос талантов. С начала вторжения 2022 года свыше 650 тысяч образованных молодых россиян — технарей, учёных, предпринимателей — сбежали в более свободные края, что опустошает 0,85% рабочей силы, но бьёт далеко сверх своего веса по потерянному потенциалу. Опросы показывают, что менее 10% вернулись, ссылаясь не только на страх призыва, но и на удушающую цензуру и экономический застой. Это не просто бегство; это тоска по избавлению от системы, где инакомыслие значит тюрьму или яд. Только в IT-диаспора российских разработчиков разрослась, с цифровыми следами отслеживающими «штампедо» 30–34-летних в Грузию, Армению и Запад. Фасад «человека из народа» Путина маскирует режим, отталкивающий самый ценный актив: когорту младше 35 лет, чьи таланты теперь питают стартапы в Кремниевой долине и европейские лаборатории, а не «духовное возрождение» Москвы. Гармония тел у Дугина? Это диссонанс — личная паранойя Путина пожирает инновационную душу нации.
Наконец, вершина иронии имперской фантазии Дугина — уязвимость России к той же участи, которую она навязала другим: полной разборке и аннексии, эхом раздела Польши на 123 года хищными соседями в XVIII–XIX веках. Трагедия Польши — расчленённой Россией, Пруссией и Австрией — преследует риторику Москвы как её глубочайший фобий, но авантюризм Путина приглашает кармический реверс. Недовольные пограничные государства — от Польши и Прибалтики до Китая и Центральной Азии — тихо набросали карты на случай постпутинского расчленения 17 миллионов квадратных километров России. Страхи «аннексии» Западной Украины — проекция Кремля; на деле ослабленная Россия рискует тем, что Финляндия вернёт Карелию, Япония надавит на Курилы, а Азербайджан прицелится в северные территории. Даже «верные» союзники вроде Казахстана шепчутся о возвращении северных степей, потерянных при Сталине. По мере того как санкции кусают, а война истощает резервы, эти соседи — воодушевлённые продвижением НАТО на восток — видят возможность в перерастяжении Москвы. «Бинарные» императоры Дугина чередуются хорошими и плохими; правление Путина склоняет чашу к катастрофе, а не к «свету». История России — не парадоксальный подъём, а цикл гордыни, ведущий к унижению.
В итоге, Путин Дугина — не строитель мостов, а строитель баррикад, отгораживающий Россию от её неизбежного распада. Империя, которую он провозглашает, — призрак: территориально выпотрошенный Китаем, демографически усохший до тени, интеллектуально обескровленный и геополитически нацеленный на раздел. «Нечёткие звуки» истории — не предзнаменования славы, а предсмертный хрип государства слишком хрупкого, чтобы выстоять. Если Путин — человек судьбы, то судьба предписывает распад. Золотая корона? Это золото дураков, и бездна ждёт.
Dugin's Bridge to Nowhere: Why Putin's "Empire" is a Fantasy on the Brink of Collapse
Alexander Dugin's paean to Vladimir Putin paints a romantic portrait of the Russian president as a Roman Princeps, a humble bridge-builder (Pontifex Maximus) spanning a crumbling 1990s republic and a resurgent empire. Putin, in this hagiography, is the meritocratic savior who yanked Russia from the abyss of Yeltsin-era chaos, harmonizing his "two bodies"—the patriotic security officer and the sacred sovereign—to forge a path of "salvation and success." History, Dugin insists, whispers paradoxes in Putin's favor, crowning him with a "golden crown" on his name day. But this mystical narrative crumbles under the weight of geopolitical realities, demographic doomsdays, and societal hemorrhage. Far from ascending to imperial glory, Russia under Putin is hurtling toward fragmentation and irrelevance. Putin's "bridge" isn't to empire—it's a gangplank off the edge of the world. Let us dismantle Dugin's illusions point by point.
First, Dugin's empire presupposes a sovereign Russia with territorial integrity intact. Yet Russia's vast Siberian hinterlands—its frozen crown jewels of resources and space—are ripe for the taking by a voracious neighbor: China. Dugin glosses over the asymmetry in Russo-Chinese relations, where Moscow's war economy increasingly depends on Beijing's goodwill for oil sales, gas pipelines, and dual-use tech. But beneath the "no-limits partnership" lies a powder keg. China's economy, starved for energy amid slowing growth and LNG import woes, eyes Siberia's untapped riches—timber, minerals, and arable land—as a lifeline for its projected GDP ambitions. Opinion leaders have warned that Beijing's gaze has shifted from Taiwan to the Russian Far East, where demographic voids (Russia's Far East population has plummeted amid neglect) invite opportunistic expansion. Historical border clashes, like the 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict, linger in memory, and recent frictions over the Power of Siberia-2 pipeline—delayed by price haggling and Taiwan tensions—expose Moscow's weakening hand. By 2030, as Russia's Far East becomes a Chinese economic colony through unchecked investment and migration, full annexation isn't hyperbole; it's timeline. In five years, expect Beijing to "retake" Siberia not with tanks, but through fait accompli leases and "joint development" zones that swallow Russian sovereignty whole. Putin's bridge? It's a one-way toll road to Beijing.
Compounding this territorial peril is Russia's inexorable demographic implosion, which Dugin ignores as if population were an abstract hieroglyph. Putin may have stabilized the post-Soviet freefall, but his "salvific" rule has presided over a fertility rate hovering at 1.4 children per woman—well below replacement—and a net migration loss exacerbated by the Ukraine war. Even optimistic UN projections forecast Russia's population dipping from 144 million today to around 128 million by 2075, a 11% contraction that belies the "rump Russia" of European heartlands (roughly 100 million excluding contested peripheries). Pessimistic models from Russian demographers paint a grimmer picture: without massive immigration (politically toxic under xenophobic Kremlin rhetoric), the core Slavic population could halve to 50 million in 50 years, hollowing out the military, workforce, and innovation base. War casualties—over 500,000 dead or wounded by mid-2025—have accelerated this, skewing the age pyramid toward gerontocracy. Dugin's "flowering and ascent" is a mirage; Putin's empire will be a nursing home guarded by conscripts too few and too frail to hold the line.
Worse still, this shrinkage isn't uniform—it's a targeted evisceration of Russia's future through the exodus of its brightest youth. Dugin celebrates Putin's "humane" meritocracy, yet repression has turned the Kremlin into a talent vacuum cleaner in reverse. Since the 2022 invasion, over 650,000 educated young Russians—techies, scientists, entrepreneurs—have bolted for freer shores, comprising a brain drain that guts 0.85% of the workforce but punches far above its weight in lost potential. Surveys show fewer than 10% have trickled back, citing not just draft fears but suffocating censorship and economic stagnation. This isn't mere flight; it's a yearning for escape from a system where dissent means prison or poison. In IT alone, Russia's developer diaspora has swelled, with digital footprints tracking a "stampede" of 30-34-year-olds to Georgia, Armenia, and the West. Putin's "man of the people" facade masks a regime that alienates its most vital asset: the under-35 cohort, whose talents now fuel Silicon Valley startups and European labs, not Moscow's "spiritual rebirth." Dugin's harmony of bodies? It's dissonance—Putin's personal paranoia devouring the nation's innovative soul.
Finally, the crowning irony of Dugin's imperial fantasy is Russia's vulnerability to the very fate it inflicted on others: total partition and annexation, echoing Poland's 123-year dismemberment by predatory neighbors in the 18th-19th centuries. Poland's tragedy—carved up by Russia, Prussia, and Austria—haunts Moscow's rhetoric as its deepest phobia, yet Putin's adventurism invites karmic reversal. Restive border states, from Poland and the Baltics to China and Central Asia, have quietly sketched contingency maps for a post-Putin carve-up of Russia's 17 million square kilometers. Western Ukraine's "annexation" fears are a Kremlin projection; in truth, a weakened Russia risks Finland reclaiming Karelia, Japan pressing for the Kurils, and Azerbaijan eyeing northern territories. Even "loyal" allies like Kazakhstan whisper of reclaiming northern steppes lost to Stalin. As sanctions bite and the war drains reserves, these neighbors—emboldened by NATO's eastward creep—see opportunity in Moscow's overstretch. Dugin's "binary" emperors alternate good and bad; Putin's reign tips the scale toward catastrophe, not "light." Russia's history isn't paradoxical ascent—it's a cycle of hubris leading to humiliation.
In sum, Dugin's Putin is no bridge-builder but a builder of barricades, barricading Russia against its inevitable unraveling. The empire he heralds is a ghost: territorially eviscerated by China, demographically withered to a shadow, intellectually bled dry, and geopolitically primed for partition. History's "inarticulate sounds" aren't omens of glory—they're the death rattle of a state too brittle to endure. If Putin is destiny's man, then destiny decrees dissolution. The golden crown? It's fool's gold, and the abyss awaits.
2 Chronicles 7:14 and the Book of Judges tell us that when a People repent, God sends them good leaders. But when they are hardened in their sins, God sends them bad leaders.
The West is hardened in their sins. With the philosophy of "Pragmatism", Americans long ago abandoned the concept of Transcendent Principles, including Truth. They now have a subjective concept of Truth - "my truth", "your truth" - there's no such thing as Objective Truth. There is no such thing as "Right & Wrong" - those things are merely matters of personal opinion. When they speak, they are not concerned about whether what they say is "true" or "false" - they say whatever they need to say to get the result they want. That is who Trump is. He is supposed to obey the US Constitution - but he ignores it and goes with his own opinions - but his opinions are formed by the globalists with whom he surrounds himself. And he has sold the US to the modern day nation state which claims to be "Israel".
Note to Translator: "Empire" is not a good word for what I think you may mean - I really don't know what you mean by it. To the English-speaking person, "empire" has a distinct meaning - colonization: "The Sun never sets on the British Empire". That is the opposite of multipolarity. I don't know of an English word for what I think you may mean. Perhaps if you tell me the Russian word and describe in English what you mean, I can help come up with an English word or phrase. Words are always a problem - sometimes there is no equivalent word in one language for a word used in another language. E.g., there is no English word for the Greek word "agape" which appears in the New Testament. It has been mistranslated in English Bibles to mean "love" or "charity" - even though John's Letters show us that it means to treat people according to God's Laws. If I agapeo you, I won't steal your stuff, murder or slander you.
I reckon Catherine the Great, Thomas Jefferson, Francisco Franco and Vladimir Putin as representing, each in their own way, top statesmanship in the last four centuries.
And at the very bottom of the barrel so to speak, one finds the viscerally anti-human, voraciously mercantilist Beast, that omnicidal globalist hegemon still wearing a millenary chip on its shoulder against Christian, Conservative Mother Russia.
At all times everywhere real people simply want to get along with their lives, not in the least inclined to design a guillotine and themselves kidnap the royal family and chop their heads off. Nor are they in the least inclined to storm the Czar's chambers, violently abduct and heineousy execute the entire family.
Such unspeakable crimes are as horrific in the minds of normal humans as to imagine their own kids fall victims to the pure evil of paedophilia and its inevitably derived putrid filth.
No matter where one was born, whether or not one speaks French or Russian, been or not been to France or Russia, any decent person to this very day must feel tremendous sadness at the loss of those particular lives and total unforgiveness towards their execrable executioners and their masters behind the curtain.
G. Edward Griffin's "The Creature from Jekyll Island " was an eye opener, later confirmed by Solzhenitsyn's crystal clear statements to the effect that Bolsheviks were not Russians and hated Russia.
And, oh, oh, oh, Griffin also tells us Lenin and his pals were sponsored from Wall St by the same lot who bankrolled the Hitler lot.
Wait a minute, right here and now in the decrepit EU we are most undoubtedly under the boot of an "aggressive abroad and despotic at home" tyranny.
"Lui vede lontano" was the usual sign of respect towards Enzo Ferrari.
Much earlier, also Robert Lee "vedeva lontano" Big Time, thus:
"The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it". Got that, Beltway?
Still butthurt at Solzhenitsyn for telling you all in your face on your own playground the US was hijacked by the same two-faced Beast that last century kept Germans and Russians at war with one another for the beast cannot stand the prospect of Russia and Germany peacefully trading and prospering?
And as Dugin reminds us Russia was on the verge of extinction as an entity by the end of the infamous last decade of the last century, most criminally plundered until a miracle happened and Putin took charge.
We Westerners have personally witnessed being still alive and breathing during the last consecutive 9,413 sunrises, exclusively thanks to Putin's monumental patience.
Let that sink in, Karen and Brandon.
15 years ago at that charity event in St Petrsburg, seeing Hollywood's best enjoying Putin at the piano and singing Blueberry Hill, it was crystal clear to us real blues fans everywhere that Putin is thevreal deal, and we most respectfully and warmly refer to the statesman of the century as :
Putin better get the lead out. The longer he dawdles with his go-slow military strategy, the more time he allows the devious west to devise strategies against Russia. Time is NOT on his side. Unfortunately, the current mass opinion from Russia's supporters is that the West will commit suicide sometime before they can do any damage to Russia. That attitude is complacent, oblivious, smug, and thoroughly ignorant of how western leaders have come to power in the first place, including their ideology and psychology. Restraint by Putin is perceived as weakness by hardliners in the west, and only entices them to even more provocations. It is this psychological dynamic that Putin and his general staff completely misunderstand about the pervasive western mindset.
Only someone who has grown up in the west over at least the last 50 years, and has maintained a sense of traditional values, can understand the extreme danger the west represents. They will gnaw from within with their seductive ideology, and gnaw from without along the periphery of Russia's borders. For anyone with the ability to see, all of that is happening right now. The western wokust-globalist alliance knows only one thing: double-down on their well-honed tactics that they used so successfully to come to power in their own countries. Only the fear of overwhelming force will knock them off the path of their feminized, malicious, passive-aggressive hysteria. What, do you think the west has always been the way it is now? Do you think the west is “fascist”? What utter fools you are, and what utter fools Putin and Russia will be if they continue to underestimate the evil that has consumed the west.
Wonderfully observed, written. Vladimir Putin is a great and powerful soul, sent not just to pull Russia from the abyss, but to stop the dark forces running the world into the ground and to guide us all to a better future. Long may he prosper.
The longevity of his reign is extraordinary. Putin has endured because of his Faith which has given him an eternal perspective & temperament to endure. Also the Wisdom to make the right moves.
Russia was near a failed state in the 90ies. Now incomes are at European levels. Putin has by any standards done a marvelous job.
Well said, Professor Dugin. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin isn't just Russia's savior and guiding light, he is the world's preeminent statesman of this century.
That Kaja Kallas made a statement to the effect that DJT is not the leader of free world. She's absolutely correct, VVP is the leader of the Free World and she seems to have a problem with that
very profound and moving. God bless Putin and Russia - and happy name day x
How can so many people, with high education disconnect so far from reality?
To lie about everything...
Ruzzia will break up, as the USSR did.
Truth will always win over lies
Мост Дугина в никуда: Почему «империя» Путина — это фантазия на грани краха
Панегирик Александра Дугина Владимиру Путину рисует романтический портрет российского президента как римского принципа — скромного строителя мостов (понтификса максимуса), соединяющего рушащуюся республику 1990-х и возрождающуюся империю. Путин, по этой агиографии, — заслугами заслуженный спаситель, который выдернул Россию из пропасти хаоса ельцинской эпохи, гармонично сочетая свои «два тела» — патриотического офицера безопасности и священного суверена, — чтобы проложить путь «спасения и успеха». История, настаивает Дугин, шепчет парадоксы в пользу Путина, венчая его «золотой короной» в день его именины. Но этот мистический нарратив рушится под тяжестью геополитических реалий, демографических апокалипсисов и социального кровотечения. Далеко не восходя к имперскому величию, Россия под Путиным мчится к фрагментации и нерелевантности. «Мост» Путина — не к империи, а к трапу с края мира. Давайте разберём иллюзии Дугина по пунктам.
Во-первых, империя Дугина предполагает суверенную Россию с нетронутой территориальной целостностью. Однако обширные сибирские просторы — её замёрзшие драгоценные ресурсы и пространство — зреют для захвата голодным соседом: Китаем. Дугин замалчивает асимметрию в русско-китайских отношениях, где военная экономика Москвы всё больше зависит от милости Пекина в продажах нефти, газопроводах и технологиях двойного назначения. Но под «партнёрством без границ» таится пороховой погреб. Экономика Китая, истощённая энергодефицитом на фоне замедления роста и проблем с импортом СПГ, смотрит на нераскрытые богатства Сибири — лес, минералы и пашни — как на спасательный круг для своих амбиций по ВВП. Мнение лидеров общественности предупреждает, что взгляд Пекина сместился с Тайваня на Дальний Восток России, где демографические пустоты (население российского Дальнего Востока рухнуло из-за пренебрежения) приглашают к оппортунистической экспансии. Исторические пограничные стычки, как конфликт 1969 года между Китаем и СССР, живут в памяти, а недавние трения по поводу газопровода «Сила Сибири-2» — задержанного торгами по цене и напряжённостью вокруг Тайваня — обнажают слабеющую руку Москвы. К 2030 году, когда Дальний Восток России превратится в китайскую экономическую колонию через неконтролируемые инвестиции и миграцию, полная аннексия — не гипербола, а временная шкала. В ближайшие пять лет ждите, что Пекин «вернёт» Сибирь не танками, а через свершившийся факт аренды и «совместных зон развития», поглощающих российский суверенитет целиком. Мост Путина? Это односторонняя платная дорога в Пекин.
Усугубляя эту территориальную угрозу, Россия переживает неизбежный демографический коллапс, который Дугин игнорирует, будто население — абстрактный иероглиф. Путин, возможно, стабилизировал постсоветский обвал, но его «спасительное» правление курировало рождаемость на уровне 1,4 ребёнка на женщину — далеко ниже уровня воспроизводства — и чистые потери миграции, усугублённые войной на Украине. Даже оптимистичные прогнозы ООН предсказывают падение населения России с 144 миллионов сегодня до примерно 128 миллионов к 2075 году, сокращение на 11%, которое маскирует «культю России» европейского ядра (примерно 100 миллионов без учёта спорных периферий). Пессимистичные модели российских демографов рисуют мрачнее картину: без массовой иммиграции (политически токсичной под ксенофобной риторикой Кремля) ядро славянского населения может сократиться вдвое до 50 миллионов через 50 лет, опустошив армию, рабочую силу и базу инноваций. Потери от войны — свыше 500 тысяч убитыми или ранеными к середине 2025 года — ускорили это, искажая пирамиду возрастов в сторону геронтократии. «Цветение и подъём» Дугина — мираж; империя Путина станет домом престарелых, охраняемым призывниками слишком редкими и хилыми, чтобы удержать линию.
Ещё хуже, это сокращение неравномерно — это целенаправленное уничтожение будущего России через исход её самых ярких молодёжей. Дугин восхваляет «гуманную» меритократию Путина, но репрессии превратили Кремль в обратный пылесос талантов. С начала вторжения 2022 года свыше 650 тысяч образованных молодых россиян — технарей, учёных, предпринимателей — сбежали в более свободные края, что опустошает 0,85% рабочей силы, но бьёт далеко сверх своего веса по потерянному потенциалу. Опросы показывают, что менее 10% вернулись, ссылаясь не только на страх призыва, но и на удушающую цензуру и экономический застой. Это не просто бегство; это тоска по избавлению от системы, где инакомыслие значит тюрьму или яд. Только в IT-диаспора российских разработчиков разрослась, с цифровыми следами отслеживающими «штампедо» 30–34-летних в Грузию, Армению и Запад. Фасад «человека из народа» Путина маскирует режим, отталкивающий самый ценный актив: когорту младше 35 лет, чьи таланты теперь питают стартапы в Кремниевой долине и европейские лаборатории, а не «духовное возрождение» Москвы. Гармония тел у Дугина? Это диссонанс — личная паранойя Путина пожирает инновационную душу нации.
Наконец, вершина иронии имперской фантазии Дугина — уязвимость России к той же участи, которую она навязала другим: полной разборке и аннексии, эхом раздела Польши на 123 года хищными соседями в XVIII–XIX веках. Трагедия Польши — расчленённой Россией, Пруссией и Австрией — преследует риторику Москвы как её глубочайший фобий, но авантюризм Путина приглашает кармический реверс. Недовольные пограничные государства — от Польши и Прибалтики до Китая и Центральной Азии — тихо набросали карты на случай постпутинского расчленения 17 миллионов квадратных километров России. Страхи «аннексии» Западной Украины — проекция Кремля; на деле ослабленная Россия рискует тем, что Финляндия вернёт Карелию, Япония надавит на Курилы, а Азербайджан прицелится в северные территории. Даже «верные» союзники вроде Казахстана шепчутся о возвращении северных степей, потерянных при Сталине. По мере того как санкции кусают, а война истощает резервы, эти соседи — воодушевлённые продвижением НАТО на восток — видят возможность в перерастяжении Москвы. «Бинарные» императоры Дугина чередуются хорошими и плохими; правление Путина склоняет чашу к катастрофе, а не к «свету». История России — не парадоксальный подъём, а цикл гордыни, ведущий к унижению.
В итоге, Путин Дугина — не строитель мостов, а строитель баррикад, отгораживающий Россию от её неизбежного распада. Империя, которую он провозглашает, — призрак: территориально выпотрошенный Китаем, демографически усохший до тени, интеллектуально обескровленный и геополитически нацеленный на раздел. «Нечёткие звуки» истории — не предзнаменования славы, а предсмертный хрип государства слишком хрупкого, чтобы выстоять. Если Путин — человек судьбы, то судьба предписывает распад. Золотая корона? Это золото дураков, и бездна ждёт.
Dugin's Bridge to Nowhere: Why Putin's "Empire" is a Fantasy on the Brink of Collapse
Alexander Dugin's paean to Vladimir Putin paints a romantic portrait of the Russian president as a Roman Princeps, a humble bridge-builder (Pontifex Maximus) spanning a crumbling 1990s republic and a resurgent empire. Putin, in this hagiography, is the meritocratic savior who yanked Russia from the abyss of Yeltsin-era chaos, harmonizing his "two bodies"—the patriotic security officer and the sacred sovereign—to forge a path of "salvation and success." History, Dugin insists, whispers paradoxes in Putin's favor, crowning him with a "golden crown" on his name day. But this mystical narrative crumbles under the weight of geopolitical realities, demographic doomsdays, and societal hemorrhage. Far from ascending to imperial glory, Russia under Putin is hurtling toward fragmentation and irrelevance. Putin's "bridge" isn't to empire—it's a gangplank off the edge of the world. Let us dismantle Dugin's illusions point by point.
First, Dugin's empire presupposes a sovereign Russia with territorial integrity intact. Yet Russia's vast Siberian hinterlands—its frozen crown jewels of resources and space—are ripe for the taking by a voracious neighbor: China. Dugin glosses over the asymmetry in Russo-Chinese relations, where Moscow's war economy increasingly depends on Beijing's goodwill for oil sales, gas pipelines, and dual-use tech. But beneath the "no-limits partnership" lies a powder keg. China's economy, starved for energy amid slowing growth and LNG import woes, eyes Siberia's untapped riches—timber, minerals, and arable land—as a lifeline for its projected GDP ambitions. Opinion leaders have warned that Beijing's gaze has shifted from Taiwan to the Russian Far East, where demographic voids (Russia's Far East population has plummeted amid neglect) invite opportunistic expansion. Historical border clashes, like the 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict, linger in memory, and recent frictions over the Power of Siberia-2 pipeline—delayed by price haggling and Taiwan tensions—expose Moscow's weakening hand. By 2030, as Russia's Far East becomes a Chinese economic colony through unchecked investment and migration, full annexation isn't hyperbole; it's timeline. In five years, expect Beijing to "retake" Siberia not with tanks, but through fait accompli leases and "joint development" zones that swallow Russian sovereignty whole. Putin's bridge? It's a one-way toll road to Beijing.
Compounding this territorial peril is Russia's inexorable demographic implosion, which Dugin ignores as if population were an abstract hieroglyph. Putin may have stabilized the post-Soviet freefall, but his "salvific" rule has presided over a fertility rate hovering at 1.4 children per woman—well below replacement—and a net migration loss exacerbated by the Ukraine war. Even optimistic UN projections forecast Russia's population dipping from 144 million today to around 128 million by 2075, a 11% contraction that belies the "rump Russia" of European heartlands (roughly 100 million excluding contested peripheries). Pessimistic models from Russian demographers paint a grimmer picture: without massive immigration (politically toxic under xenophobic Kremlin rhetoric), the core Slavic population could halve to 50 million in 50 years, hollowing out the military, workforce, and innovation base. War casualties—over 500,000 dead or wounded by mid-2025—have accelerated this, skewing the age pyramid toward gerontocracy. Dugin's "flowering and ascent" is a mirage; Putin's empire will be a nursing home guarded by conscripts too few and too frail to hold the line.
Worse still, this shrinkage isn't uniform—it's a targeted evisceration of Russia's future through the exodus of its brightest youth. Dugin celebrates Putin's "humane" meritocracy, yet repression has turned the Kremlin into a talent vacuum cleaner in reverse. Since the 2022 invasion, over 650,000 educated young Russians—techies, scientists, entrepreneurs—have bolted for freer shores, comprising a brain drain that guts 0.85% of the workforce but punches far above its weight in lost potential. Surveys show fewer than 10% have trickled back, citing not just draft fears but suffocating censorship and economic stagnation. This isn't mere flight; it's a yearning for escape from a system where dissent means prison or poison. In IT alone, Russia's developer diaspora has swelled, with digital footprints tracking a "stampede" of 30-34-year-olds to Georgia, Armenia, and the West. Putin's "man of the people" facade masks a regime that alienates its most vital asset: the under-35 cohort, whose talents now fuel Silicon Valley startups and European labs, not Moscow's "spiritual rebirth." Dugin's harmony of bodies? It's dissonance—Putin's personal paranoia devouring the nation's innovative soul.
Finally, the crowning irony of Dugin's imperial fantasy is Russia's vulnerability to the very fate it inflicted on others: total partition and annexation, echoing Poland's 123-year dismemberment by predatory neighbors in the 18th-19th centuries. Poland's tragedy—carved up by Russia, Prussia, and Austria—haunts Moscow's rhetoric as its deepest phobia, yet Putin's adventurism invites karmic reversal. Restive border states, from Poland and the Baltics to China and Central Asia, have quietly sketched contingency maps for a post-Putin carve-up of Russia's 17 million square kilometers. Western Ukraine's "annexation" fears are a Kremlin projection; in truth, a weakened Russia risks Finland reclaiming Karelia, Japan pressing for the Kurils, and Azerbaijan eyeing northern territories. Even "loyal" allies like Kazakhstan whisper of reclaiming northern steppes lost to Stalin. As sanctions bite and the war drains reserves, these neighbors—emboldened by NATO's eastward creep—see opportunity in Moscow's overstretch. Dugin's "binary" emperors alternate good and bad; Putin's reign tips the scale toward catastrophe, not "light." Russia's history isn't paradoxical ascent—it's a cycle of hubris leading to humiliation.
In sum, Dugin's Putin is no bridge-builder but a builder of barricades, barricading Russia against its inevitable unraveling. The empire he heralds is a ghost: territorially eviscerated by China, demographically withered to a shadow, intellectually bled dry, and geopolitically primed for partition. History's "inarticulate sounds" aren't omens of glory—they're the death rattle of a state too brittle to endure. If Putin is destiny's man, then destiny decrees dissolution. The golden crown? It's fool's gold, and the abyss awaits.
Russia is blessed to have Putin.
2 Chronicles 7:14 and the Book of Judges tell us that when a People repent, God sends them good leaders. But when they are hardened in their sins, God sends them bad leaders.
The West is hardened in their sins. With the philosophy of "Pragmatism", Americans long ago abandoned the concept of Transcendent Principles, including Truth. They now have a subjective concept of Truth - "my truth", "your truth" - there's no such thing as Objective Truth. There is no such thing as "Right & Wrong" - those things are merely matters of personal opinion. When they speak, they are not concerned about whether what they say is "true" or "false" - they say whatever they need to say to get the result they want. That is who Trump is. He is supposed to obey the US Constitution - but he ignores it and goes with his own opinions - but his opinions are formed by the globalists with whom he surrounds himself. And he has sold the US to the modern day nation state which claims to be "Israel".
Note to Translator: "Empire" is not a good word for what I think you may mean - I really don't know what you mean by it. To the English-speaking person, "empire" has a distinct meaning - colonization: "The Sun never sets on the British Empire". That is the opposite of multipolarity. I don't know of an English word for what I think you may mean. Perhaps if you tell me the Russian word and describe in English what you mean, I can help come up with an English word or phrase. Words are always a problem - sometimes there is no equivalent word in one language for a word used in another language. E.g., there is no English word for the Greek word "agape" which appears in the New Testament. It has been mistranslated in English Bibles to mean "love" or "charity" - even though John's Letters show us that it means to treat people according to God's Laws. If I agapeo you, I won't steal your stuff, murder or slander you.
I thought Empires were bad, guess it’s who’s Emperor.
I reckon Catherine the Great, Thomas Jefferson, Francisco Franco and Vladimir Putin as representing, each in their own way, top statesmanship in the last four centuries.
And at the very bottom of the barrel so to speak, one finds the viscerally anti-human, voraciously mercantilist Beast, that omnicidal globalist hegemon still wearing a millenary chip on its shoulder against Christian, Conservative Mother Russia.
At all times everywhere real people simply want to get along with their lives, not in the least inclined to design a guillotine and themselves kidnap the royal family and chop their heads off. Nor are they in the least inclined to storm the Czar's chambers, violently abduct and heineousy execute the entire family.
Such unspeakable crimes are as horrific in the minds of normal humans as to imagine their own kids fall victims to the pure evil of paedophilia and its inevitably derived putrid filth.
No matter where one was born, whether or not one speaks French or Russian, been or not been to France or Russia, any decent person to this very day must feel tremendous sadness at the loss of those particular lives and total unforgiveness towards their execrable executioners and their masters behind the curtain.
G. Edward Griffin's "The Creature from Jekyll Island " was an eye opener, later confirmed by Solzhenitsyn's crystal clear statements to the effect that Bolsheviks were not Russians and hated Russia.
And, oh, oh, oh, Griffin also tells us Lenin and his pals were sponsored from Wall St by the same lot who bankrolled the Hitler lot.
Wait a minute, right here and now in the decrepit EU we are most undoubtedly under the boot of an "aggressive abroad and despotic at home" tyranny.
"Lui vede lontano" was the usual sign of respect towards Enzo Ferrari.
Much earlier, also Robert Lee "vedeva lontano" Big Time, thus:
"The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it". Got that, Beltway?
Still butthurt at Solzhenitsyn for telling you all in your face on your own playground the US was hijacked by the same two-faced Beast that last century kept Germans and Russians at war with one another for the beast cannot stand the prospect of Russia and Germany peacefully trading and prospering?
And as Dugin reminds us Russia was on the verge of extinction as an entity by the end of the infamous last decade of the last century, most criminally plundered until a miracle happened and Putin took charge.
We Westerners have personally witnessed being still alive and breathing during the last consecutive 9,413 sunrises, exclusively thanks to Putin's monumental patience.
Let that sink in, Karen and Brandon.
15 years ago at that charity event in St Petrsburg, seeing Hollywood's best enjoying Putin at the piano and singing Blueberry Hill, it was crystal clear to us real blues fans everywhere that Putin is thevreal deal, and we most respectfully and warmly refer to the statesman of the century as :
"Coolest cat in the galaxy our good pal Vlad is"
Putin better get the lead out. The longer he dawdles with his go-slow military strategy, the more time he allows the devious west to devise strategies against Russia. Time is NOT on his side. Unfortunately, the current mass opinion from Russia's supporters is that the West will commit suicide sometime before they can do any damage to Russia. That attitude is complacent, oblivious, smug, and thoroughly ignorant of how western leaders have come to power in the first place, including their ideology and psychology. Restraint by Putin is perceived as weakness by hardliners in the west, and only entices them to even more provocations. It is this psychological dynamic that Putin and his general staff completely misunderstand about the pervasive western mindset.
Only someone who has grown up in the west over at least the last 50 years, and has maintained a sense of traditional values, can understand the extreme danger the west represents. They will gnaw from within with their seductive ideology, and gnaw from without along the periphery of Russia's borders. For anyone with the ability to see, all of that is happening right now. The western wokust-globalist alliance knows only one thing: double-down on their well-honed tactics that they used so successfully to come to power in their own countries. Only the fear of overwhelming force will knock them off the path of their feminized, malicious, passive-aggressive hysteria. What, do you think the west has always been the way it is now? Do you think the west is “fascist”? What utter fools you are, and what utter fools Putin and Russia will be if they continue to underestimate the evil that has consumed the west.