| Notes |
The Russian political philosopher Alexander Dugin is banned from traveling to the United States because his calls for violence helped inspire the pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern Ukraine in 2014. But if America’s leading ideologue today, Steve Bannon, were to visit Moscow, Dugin, a 55-year-old with a long beard and ultra-conservative views, would gladly sit down and talk with him. Dugin says he sees Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, as his “ideological ally.” Dugin says, “as Bannon and I read the same authors, we are united by the entire treasury of European conservative culture and history.”
Dugin, famous in Russia for his deep disrespect for the world’s liberals, looks at Bannon as his “last hope” in Washington’s conservative political circles. |