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Following our previous posts on Trump-Zelensky White House Meeting Descends Into Shouting Match & Britain Hosts “Securing Our Future” London Summit, March 2, 2025, Windermere Sun felt compelled to  explain why it is crucial for The West and especially the United States of America to support Ukraine in its struggle against the Russian or Putin’s invasion. An influential book by Alexandr Dugin laid out the plan closely followed by Putin. Excerpt from wikipedia on the topic of The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia (1997), is in italics, below:

The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia (1997) by Alexandr Dugin is a controversial and influential book in Russian political and military circles. Its publication in 1997 was well received in Russia; it has had significant influence within the Russian military, police forces, and foreign policy elites,^[1][2] and has been used as a textbook in the Academy of the General Staffof the Russian military.^[1][3] Powerful Russian political figures subsequently took an interest in Dugin,^[4] a Russian political analyst who espouses an ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist ideology based on his idea ofneo-Eurasianism,^[5] who has developed a close relationship with Russia’s Academy of the General Staff.^[6]It outlines a geopolitical strategy for Russia to establish dominance over Eurasia and counter Western influence, particularly that of the United States. Impact of the Book:

• Foundations of Geopolitics is reported to be influential among Russian military strategists and policymakers.
• It has shaped some aspects of Russia’s foreign policy, particularly regarding hybrid warfare and information operations.
• Dugin himself is a controversial figure, seen by some as a fringe theorist and by others as an intellectual force behind Russia’s strategic thinking.

The book was described by Foreign Policy as “one of the most curious, impressive, and terrifying books to come out of Russia during the entire post-Soviet era”, and “more sober than Dugin’s previous books, better argued, and shorn of occult references, numerology, traditionalism and other eccentric metaphysics“.^[3] In 2022, Foreign Policy also noted: “The recent invasion of Ukraine is a continuation of a Dugin-promoted strategy for weakening the international liberal order.”^[18]

Key Themes and Strategies:

1. Eurasianism as Russia’s Destiny:

   • Dugin argues that Russia is not just a country but a civilization distinct from both the West and the East.
   • He promotes the idea of a Eurasian empire stretching from Europe to Asia.

2. Undermining the United States:

   • The book suggests using information warfare, destabilization, and internal discord to weaken the U.S.
   • Advocates supporting separatist and extremist movements to divide American society.

3. Controlling Europe Without Military Conflict:

   • Recommends creating a Germany-Russia alliance to dominate Europe.
   • Encourages the promotion of anti-American and nationalist sentiments in European nations.

4. Fragmenting and Neutralizing Other Powers:

   • The UK should be cut off from Europe.
   • Ukraine should be annexed or controlled to prevent it from aligning with the West.
   • China should be manipulated to avoid it becoming a dominant rival.

5. Influencing the Middle East and Asia:

   • Advocates alliances with Iran and other anti-Western forces.
   • Calls for spreading Russian influence in Central Asia and weakening Turkey.

6. Soft Power and Ideological Warfare:

   • Recommends spreading anti-liberal and anti-globalist ideologies.
   • Encourages media manipulation and cultural influence to reshape world politics.

Below, are excerpts from wikipedia on the topic of this book, in italics:

In Foundations of Geopolitics, Dugin makes a distinction between “Atlantic” and “Eurasian” societies, which means, as Benjamin R. Teitelbaum describes it: “between societies whose coastal geographical position made them cosmopolitan and landlocked societies oriented toward preservation and cohesion”.^[15] Dugin calls for the “Atlantic societies”, primarily represented by the United States, to lose their broader geopolitical influence in Eurasia, and for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances.^[3]

The book declares that “the battle for the world rule of Russians” has not ended and Russia remains “the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution“. The Eurasian Empire will be constructed “on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the U.S., and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us.”^[2][9] Dugin seems not to rule out the possibility of Russia joining and/or even supporting the European Union and NATO instrumentally in a pragmatic way of further Western subversion against geopolitical “Americanism“.

Outside of Ukraine and Georgia, military operations play a relatively minor role except for the military intelligence operations. The textbook advocates a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian secret services.^[16] The operations should be assisted by a tough, hard-headed utilization of Russia’s gas, oil, and natural resources to bully and pressure other countries.^[9] The book states that “the maximum task [of the future] is the ‘Finlandization‘ of all of Europe”.^[9]

In Europe:

• Germany should be offered the de facto political dominance over most Protestant and Catholic states located within Central and Eastern Europe. The Kaliningrad Oblast could be given back to Germany. The book uses the term “Moscow–Berlin axis”.^[9]
• France should be encouraged to form a bloc with Germany, as they both have a “firm anti-Atlanticist tradition“.^[9]
• The United Kingdom, merely described as an “extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.”, should be cut off from the European Union.^[9]
• Finland should be absorbed into Russia. Southern Finland will be combined with the Republic of Karelia and northern Finland will be “donated to Murmansk Oblast“.^[9]
• Estonia should be given to Germany’s sphere of influence.^[9]
• Latvia and Lithuania should be given a “special status” in the Eurasian–Russian sphere, although he later writes that they should be integrated into Russia rather than obtaining national independence.^[9]
• Georgia should be dismembered. Abkhazia and “United Ossetia” (which includes Georgia’s South Ossetia and the Republic of North Ossetia) will be incorporated into Russia. Georgia’s independent policies are unacceptable.^[9]
• Belarus and Moldova are to become part of Russia, not independent.^[9]
• Poland should be granted a “special status” in the Eurasian sphere. This may involve splitting Poland between German and Russian spheres of influence.^[9]
• Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, “Serbian Bosnia“, and Greece – “Orthodox Christian collectivist East” – will unite with “Moscow the Third Rome” and reject the “rational-individualistic West”.^[9]
• Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because “Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics”. Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible according to Western political standards. As mentioned, Western Ukraine (comprising the regions of Volynia, Galicia, and Transcarpathia), considering its Catholic-majority population, are permitted to form an independent federation of Western Ukraine but should not be under Atlanticist control.^[9]

In the Middle East and Central Asia:

• The book stresses the “continental Russian–Islamic alliance” which lies “at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy“. The alliance is based on the “traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilization”.
• Iran is a key ally. The book uses the term “Moscow–Tehran axis”.^[9]
• Armenia has a special role: It will serve as a “strategic base,” and it is necessary to create “the [subsidiary] axis Moscow-Yerevan-Teheran”. Armenians “are an Aryan people … [like] the Iranians and the Kurds“.^[9]
• Azerbaijan could be “split up” or given to Iran.^[9]
• Russia needs to create “geopolitical shocks” within Turkey. These can be achieved by employing Kurds, Armenians, and other minorities (such as Greeks) to attack the ruling Turkish regime.^[9]
• The book regards the Caucasus as a Russian territory, including “the eastern and northern shores of the Caspian (the territories of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan)” and Central Asia (mentioning Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan).^[9]

In East and Southeast Asia:

• Dugin envisions the fall of China. The People’s Republic of China, which represents an extreme geopolitical danger as an ideological enemy to the independent Russian Federation, “must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled”. Dugin suggests that Russia start by taking Tibet–Xinjiang–Inner Mongolia–Manchuria as a security belt.^[1] Russia should offer China help “in a southern direction – Indochina (except Vietnam), the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia” as geopolitical compensation.^[9]
• Russia should manipulate Japanese politics by offering the Kuril Islands to Japan and provoking anti-Americanism, to “be a friend of Japan”.^[9]
• Mongolia should be absorbed into the Eurasian sphere.^[9]

The book emphasizes that Russia must spread geopolitical anti-Americanism everywhere: “the main ‘scapegoat‘ will be precisely the U.S.”

In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

• Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics“.^[9]
• The Eurasian Project could be expanded to Central and South America.^[9]

Given the fact that Putin had been following fairly closely to the Dugin-promoted strategy suggested in this book, it would be wise for the entire Western world as well as USA and China to help support Ukraine’s struggle against Russian invasion. As for how much USA should help Ukraine: The United States has been providing military assistance to Ukraine since 2014, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. This support increased significantly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. After 11 years of assisting Ukraine, President Trump is simply going through a “pause and review” suspension period to provide opportunity and time for Ukrainian president Zelenskyy to also gather additional supports from European nations. After all, Ukraine is part of the European continent, a much closer neighbor to Poland, Hungary, Romania, France, UK, and Germany, than USA. Furthermore, European nations have a lot of talented and wealthy people and leaders, they would be able to provide much help for Ukraine. As a matter of fact, Europe’s 750 million people (or 500 million people if excluding Eastern block nations) is about 2.24 times (or about 1.5 times, if not including Eastern block nations) as many of the 335 million people in United States. Europe can much better afford to help Ukraine. Keep in mind that President Trump is a realist who had inherited a rather hefty U.S. National Debt. He does need to periodically pause and assess the sustainability of the situation. Keep in mind that this is a temporary pause and not a permanent termination of military aid to Ukraine.  Keep in mind that the U.S. Congress plays a major role in deciding military assistance and budget allocations for other nations. Here’s how: 

1. Power of the Purse – Congress controls federal spending, including military aid, through the appropriations process. No funds can be spent without congressional approval.

2. Authorization of Military Aid – Congress must authorize military assistance through legislation, such as the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act.

3. Appropriations Process – After authorization, Congress must appropriate funds through annual defense and foreign aid budgets.

4. Oversight & Conditions – Congress can place conditions on military aid, requiring recipient nations to meet human rights or security standards.

5. Blocking or Delaying Aid – Lawmakers can introduce legislation to block or delay aid, as seen with recent debates over U.S. assistance to Ukraine and Israel.

6. Approval of Arms Sales – Major arms sales to foreign nations must be notified to Congress, which can vote to block them.

While the President and the Executive Branch (e.g., the State and Defense Departments) initiate military assistance and arms deals, Congress has the final say on funding and oversight.

Perhaps our Congressional members may have some input on this matter.

Finally, historically, much of this type of political discussions and initial negotiations would have been conducted  behind closed doors to maintain smooth international relations. It is a wise protocol to follow.

Gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker   More about the community at www.WindermereSun.com

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