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Emma M.'s avatar

Alexander Dugin, though I hear him spoken of as if a great Russian philosopher of our time, rarely seems to have an understanding of anything that's based in reality (at least based on reading pieces such as this that I have seen by him on Substack). His writing reminds me of Slavoj Zizek's gibberish verbiage. Somehow, both seem far better known than better contemporary philosophers like John Ralston Saul, who actually discuss reality, rather than Lacanian rubbish using bad math to dazzle the plebs (Alan Sokal's writeup on Lacan ought to have discredited him ages ago, but I digress).

Read any decent geopolitical analyst, and the killing of Nasrallah was strategically and tactically almost inconsequential in contrast to the degree it is exaggerated. He was the spokesperson of Hizbullah and its spiritual leader, but it is not lacking in civil or military leaders. Neither it nor the Axis of Resistance as a whole are affected all that much; the reality is a far cry from being that "the very existence of the Axis of Resistance is now in question."

If this is understood, the rest of this piece simply falls apart, and sounds like nonsense coming from an author who is unable to see the forest for the trees. Maybe all of this Israel stuff is new to Dugin, I don't know, but all this is far from "unprecedented" and all of it goes back a long time. It is in fact all rather precedented and unsurprising, and unlikely to change the fate of Israel.

"Israel is setting goals to create a great state," Dugin writes, as if unaware it has already fought to make itself into a powerful state ages ago and outlived that era; unaware that every nation in decline declares its omnipotent power and most ambitious goals of conquest immediately before its death. If a nation should appear invulnerable and mighty, it is most fragile indeed! Although Israel might be well capable of starting an apocalypse, it is likely only its own world that is ending. Don't fall for Israel's own eschatological insanity.

"One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun."—Reinhold Niebuhr, Beyond Tragedy

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Montana Shadow's avatar

To be clear, I’m NO fan of Iran or muzzies in general but respectfully, you completely dismiss Iran’s missile capability!!!! During that deliberately choreographed charade response to Israel’s bombing of the consulate in Damascus, Iran purposefully used its slowest, weakest drones to facilitate its openly planned tepid response ON PURPOSE! This was done to ferret out exactly where Israeli interception rockets would be coming from so when Iran actually wants to strike Israel with their heavy duty ballistics, they know EXACTLY where Israeli response rockets will be coming from! ISRAEL GOT PLAYED!!! And the notion that you don’t even address this reality is positively shocking! This omission is a damning indictment of either your lack of knowledge OR your deliberate subversion of the truth?!?!

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