We begin a critical analysis of the basic political and strategic ideas of Alexander Dugin, presented in the work that “made him famous” at home, but will certainly not make him famous in the West: “The Fundamentals of Geopolitics”. In this segment, we present the “principle duality” of the principles from which Dugin derives his megalomaniacal eschatology, which is sold to us today as a political science focused on geographical factors, or rather as geopolitics. As we will see, geopolitics is something completely different for Dugin, as it was for a good number of his predecessors. It is enough to note that his understanding of this “science of the end of the world” overshadows even some of the craziest Western models of globalization with its megalomania.

“A spectre is roaming the world – the spectre of geopolitics”

It is not, however, entirely correct to paraphrase the Communist Manifesto if we know that communism was characterized as a “spectre” mainly because of the alarm that its appearance caused in Europe at that time.

Unfortunately, the strange dominance of the “geopolitical approach” that permeates “dissident” communication channels in the West does not seem to raise similar concerns: suddenly everyone is a “geopolitical analyst” providing the public with “geopolitical interpretations” of international politics.

And no one is particularly concerned about the fact that this is something that has appeared practically out of nowhere in the last few years. No one, especially the mainstream media and academia, is asking how geopolitical interpretations of everything are suddenly so popular.