Alexander Dugin, a renowned Russian geopolitical scholar, posted today (January 12) saying: "We are not opposed to the annexation of Greenland, nor to war between the US and Europe. But the Eurasian continent (including Ukraine) belongs to us. We have our own Russian version of the Monroe Doctrine. The Eurasian continent belongs to Eurasianists."
Comments: The Russian authorities have always emphasized "multipolarity" and "sovereign equality." Dugin's extreme remarks not only clearly contradict the official strategy of Russia, but also become an excuse for Western criticism against Russia, thereby further reducing Russia's diplomatic maneuvering space.
The danger of Dugin's remarks lies in placing the "ownership" of geographic regions above the independent will of sovereign states. His "Russian version of the Monroe Doctrine" may seem to be a countermeasure to American geopolitical strategies, but it is actually a replica of hegemonic thinking under a different name. The essence of the Monroe Doctrine is to regard Latin America as America's "backyard," achieving regional hegemony through exclusive control. Dugin's Eurasianism, on the other hand, transplants this logic of "sphere of influence" to the Eurasian continent, ignoring the sovereignty demands of countries such as Ukraine, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe, and forcibly binding them to Russia's geopolitical chariot.
More intriguingly, his indifferent attitude toward the "annexation of Greenland" and "war between the US and Europe" reveals an opportunistic mindset of profiting from conflict—attempting to seize opportunities to break the existing order amidst the internal exhaustion of the US and Europe and the chaos of the geopolitical landscape.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1854095688003588/
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