Maybe it's there but I just don't follow or understand German politics enough to tell, but are there no consequences with the voters, or the government coalition partners? For all the silly yelling about Trump being a Russian agent , you'd think German leaders ACTUALLY being Russian agents would have some sort of consequences?
Sal, BZ. Keep reminding the Germans to choose to be on the right side of history. It's not easy choosing a path to lower profits today, avoiding authoritarian business partners. We (the USA) don't get it right 100% either. Perhaps your wise message will get heard where it counts. I've been persuaded for a while now.
This has been a long time in the making - from Aleksandr Dugin's 1997 work, Foundations of Geopolitics: "Within the territorial sprawl of Eurasia, Dugin's program focuses on the formation of three key axes: Moscow-Berlin, Moscow-Tokyo, and Moscow-Teheran. With regard to the future of Europe, Dugin writes: "The task of Moscow is to tear Europe away from the control of the U.S. (NATO), to assist European unification, and to strengthen ties with Central Europe under the aegis of the fundamental external axis Moscow-Berlin. Eurasia needs a united, friendly Europe" (369). In advocating this path, Dugin appears to be influenced by the writings of the European New Right, which from the 1970s on, argued for "the strict neutrality of Europe and its departure from NATO" (139). The basis of the Moscow-Berlin axis, Dugin writes, will be "the principle of a common enemy [that is, the United States]" (216).
In exchange for cooperating with Russia in this project, Dugin proposes that Germany be given back "Kaliningrad oblast' (Eastern Prussia)" (228). As a result of a Grand Alliance between Russia and Germany, the two countries will divvy up the territories lying between them into de facto spheres of dominance. There is to be no "sanitary cordon." "The task of Eurasia," Dugin emphasizes, "consists in making sure such a [sanitary] cordon does not exist" (370). Russia and Germany together, he insists, "must decide all disputed questions together and in advance" (226).
The integration of swaths of Western and Central European territory into a German sphere of dominance will be encouraged directly and abetted by Eurasia-Russia. The formation of a "Franco- German bloc" especially is to be supported (171). "In Germany and France,'" Dugin asserts, "there is a firm anti-Atlanticist tradition" (369). Germany's influence likely will spread to the south--to Italy and Spain (220). Only Britain, "an extraterritorial floating base of the U.S." is to be cut off and shunned (221)." https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics
Maybe it's there but I just don't follow or understand German politics enough to tell, but are there no consequences with the voters, or the government coalition partners? For all the silly yelling about Trump being a Russian agent , you'd think German leaders ACTUALLY being Russian agents would have some sort of consequences?
Sal, BZ. Keep reminding the Germans to choose to be on the right side of history. It's not easy choosing a path to lower profits today, avoiding authoritarian business partners. We (the USA) don't get it right 100% either. Perhaps your wise message will get heard where it counts. I've been persuaded for a while now.
This has been a long time in the making - from Aleksandr Dugin's 1997 work, Foundations of Geopolitics: "Within the territorial sprawl of Eurasia, Dugin's program focuses on the formation of three key axes: Moscow-Berlin, Moscow-Tokyo, and Moscow-Teheran. With regard to the future of Europe, Dugin writes: "The task of Moscow is to tear Europe away from the control of the U.S. (NATO), to assist European unification, and to strengthen ties with Central Europe under the aegis of the fundamental external axis Moscow-Berlin. Eurasia needs a united, friendly Europe" (369). In advocating this path, Dugin appears to be influenced by the writings of the European New Right, which from the 1970s on, argued for "the strict neutrality of Europe and its departure from NATO" (139). The basis of the Moscow-Berlin axis, Dugin writes, will be "the principle of a common enemy [that is, the United States]" (216).
In exchange for cooperating with Russia in this project, Dugin proposes that Germany be given back "Kaliningrad oblast' (Eastern Prussia)" (228). As a result of a Grand Alliance between Russia and Germany, the two countries will divvy up the territories lying between them into de facto spheres of dominance. There is to be no "sanitary cordon." "The task of Eurasia," Dugin emphasizes, "consists in making sure such a [sanitary] cordon does not exist" (370). Russia and Germany together, he insists, "must decide all disputed questions together and in advance" (226).
The integration of swaths of Western and Central European territory into a German sphere of dominance will be encouraged directly and abetted by Eurasia-Russia. The formation of a "Franco- German bloc" especially is to be supported (171). "In Germany and France,'" Dugin asserts, "there is a firm anti-Atlanticist tradition" (369). Germany's influence likely will spread to the south--to Italy and Spain (220). Only Britain, "an extraterritorial floating base of the U.S." is to be cut off and shunned (221)." https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics
Here's the original work to which the page references above have been made - https://n01r.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Foundations-of-Geopolitics-Geopolitical-Future-of-Russia-Alexander-Dugin-English-auto-translation-with-appended-original.pdf - the original Russian text starts at page 453. I suggest you do your own translation, the available English translations I've seen on the net have been pretty awful.