Распутинщина
Стив Бэннон, которому уготовлена роль главного советника президента США, рассуждает о Путине летом 2014 г.
Bannon: I think it’s a little bit more complicated. When Vladimir Putin, when you really look at some of the underpinnings of some of his beliefs today, a lot of those come from what I call Eurasianism; he’s got an adviser who harkens back to Julius Evola and different writers of the early 20th century who are really the supporters of what’s called the traditionalist movement, which really eventually metastasized into Italian fascism. A lot of people that are traditionalists are attracted to that.
One of the reasons is that they believe that at least Putin is standing up for traditional institutions, and he’s trying to do it in a form of nationalism - and I think that people, particularly in certain countries, want to see the sovereignty for their country, they want to see nationalism for their country. They don’t believe in this kind of pan-European Union or they don’t believe in the centralized government in the United States. They’d rather see more of a states-based entity that the founders originally set up where freedoms were controlled at the local level.
I’m not justifying Vladimir Putin and the kleptocracy that he represents, because he eventually is the state capitalist of kleptocracy. However, we the Judeo-Christian West really have to look at what he’s talking about as far as traditionalism goes - particularly the sense of where it supports the underpinnings of nationalism - and I happen to think that the individual sovereignty of a country is a good thing and a strong thing. I think strong countries and strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors, and that is really the building blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it’s what can see us forward.
You know, Putin’s been quite an interesting character. He’s also very, very, very intelligent.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world
Путинский "adviser who harkens back to Julius Evola" - это Александр Дугин.
Трудно сказать, когда именно американские alt-right заразились идеями Дугина. Какую-то роль сыграла Нина Куприянова, жена Ричарда Спенсера и переводчица книг Дугина на английский. В марте 2016 Дугин, уже как культовая фигура, наставляет своих американских поклонников непременно поддерживать Трампа:
http://www.radixjournal.com/blog/2016/3/2/dugin-on-trump
За два года до этого (в марте 2014) Foreign Affairs публикует подробную статью про Дугина Putin's Brain. В том же месяце идею об опасности Дугина в битве за Украину подхватывает Роберт Зубрин, идеолог колонизации Марса и автор National Review, оплота американского консерватизма:
Without Ukraine, Dugin’s fascist Eurasian Union project is impossible, and sooner or later Russia itself will have to join the West and become free, leaving only a few despised and doomed islands of tyranny around the globe. But with Ukraine underfoot, the Eurasianists’ program can and will proceed, and a new Iron Curtain will fall into place imprisoning a large fraction of humanity in the grip of a monstrous totalitarian power that will become the arsenal of evil around the world for decades to come.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372353/eurasianist-threat-robert-zubrin
В июне 2014 Breitbart (орган Стива Бэннона) называет Дугина Putin's Rasputin. В том же месяце Зубрин публикует статью Dugin’s Evil Theology, где описывает идеологию Дугина как "death-worshipping cult that would like to bring about the end of the world".
Most Americans don’t know anything about Alexander Dugin. They need to, because Dugin is the mad philosopher who is redesigning the brains of much of the Russian government and public, filling their minds with a new hate-ridden totalitarian ideology whose consequences can only be catastrophic in the extreme, not only for Russia, but for the entire human race.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380614/dugins-evil-theology-robert-zubrin
Когда "путинский мозг" Дугин и "трамповский мозг" Бэннон наконец встретятся, им будет о чем поговорить.
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