The Fascist Philosopher and Putin’s Ideology

How an eccentric Russian thinker’s work might illuminate Putin’s decision to invade

Alexander Dugin. Photo: Fars Media Corporation (Creative Commons)

Over the past week, there have been innumerable pieces, posts, and tweets from foreign-policy experts and pundits articulating roughly the same thought, “This is not the Vladimir Putin we thought we knew.” If Putin’s image in the West had been that…