The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 210
Moral clarity on the Ukraine War has been difficult for many Republicans. There are reasons for that, some good, some less good. For one thing, the Democrats in the name of what seems to be some bizarre globalist agenda, which is the precise thing many Republicans reject, went all in on Ukraine, demanding more and more support. For another, this triggered an isolationist streak in the American Right that was inflamed by deliberate Russian propaganda to get Republicans to pull back or even to support Russia or Putin himself. In this state of confusion, the truth is often that there are not two conflicting sides but at least three. Here, there are three conflicting philosophies of global organization competing, and the American Right is slow to figure this out. In this important episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay uses as Russian source, Aleksandr Dugin’s The Foundations of Geopolitics (1997) to make these three competing philosophies clear. Join him to gain much-needed moral clarity on this important issue.
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What needs to be considered here is the Third Party Law.
In this case, the Third Party in this conflict seems to involve, the “Deep State” or at least the CIA, the big media outlets and probably some other less obvious entities. There are off-world interests involved in all this. Sorry to be woo-woo, but it’s just true.
The classic analysis of the situation is that the West (or it Corporate players) want control over Russian assets. They want to do this by breaking Russia – much like they are breaking America – rather than staging an armed takeover.
This war is draining Russia, Europe and America (to hell with Ukraine – it’s expendable). Eventually these groups could break, and that would let the Deep State in. This is a sort of totalitarian fantasy engaged in by the Deep State. It worked on Earth once before (centered in the Mideast). Maybe it could work again.
What the Deep State did in Ukraine (or pushed into a blowup) was to take various actions that would alarm Russia and Russian Ukrainians and help convince them to engage in a full armed conflict. They pushed the Russian – Ukrainian differences into violent conflict.
I see these ideologies as basically superficial. No one with their fingers on the trigger takes these seriously. They may use them for propaganda purposes, but no more.
I think James’ trashing of the Tucker crowd is misplaced; they are onto something. It is true that their ideas seem “fringe.” But that doesn’t mean they are totally incorrect.