Alexander Dugin: Russia should overhaul its spatial strategy in the Arctic

© RIA Novosti / Maksim BlinovAlexander Dugin
Alexander Dugin
The Arctic is a geopolitical region that has key significance for a future balance of power, philosopher Alexander Dugin told a correspondent of the Arctic.ru website. Our exclusive material provides an insight into Russia’s way in the Arctic region.

“Sooner or later, we will face confrontation around this region,” he believes. According to Dugin, confrontation is being incited, and the striving of US President Donald Trump to assert his influence in Greenland is also linked with this.

Replying to a question what Russia should do so as not to lose the Arctic, Dugin said: “Russia should overhaul its spatial strategy for settling and populating densely Arctic areas. It is necessary to build up arms in the Arctic, to deploy nuclear-powered submarines and to prepare the nuclear triad for a possible clash with a probable enemy.
The philosopher also believes that “it is necessary to expand Arctic research, to build new types of communities on Novaya Zemlya and along the Arctic coast.”
Speaking about confrontation with the West in the contemporary world, the scientist noted that this pitted our philosophical ideas and traditions against the Western world outlook.
He noted that we in Russia “are becoming more and more disappointed in globalism, in the West and in liberalism and are therefore treading our own way of genuine sovereign development.”
After becoming President of Russia, Vladimir Putin opted for sovereignty and aimed to strengthen our independence, Dugin noted.
Our philosophical thought which relies on the Slavophile and Eurasian tradition (as, according to him, represented by the scientist and his colleagues) is also moving in this direction. Consequently, our philosophy which upholds the sovereignty of Russia as a state and a civilization coincides with our political line, Dugin noted.
Russia is becoming more and more sovereign; our self-awareness continues to increase at state level and at the level of the people, Alexander Dugin stressed.
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