When the Emotion Becomes Surplus: Dugin and the Logic of Writing Him Off
Alexander Dugin was never the brain of the system. He was its affect — the resentment kept on staff. And affects get written off the moment cold calculation is required.
Posts
Sergey Lavrov: The Man Who Failed at Everything
The words about a “cult of personality” capable of destroying a country came not from some émigré oppositionist — but from Putin’s own foreign minister. And they may cost him far more than his career.
Metal Fatigue
How Igor Sechin subjugated Russian oil, why the war became his business model — and why his time is running out.
Russia Is Not Patrushev
The West has a habit of quoting Nikolai Patrushev as the voice of deep Russia. The best proof that the caption under the portrait is wrong has been supplied by Putin himself.
