Dugin’s latest tract is less geopolitics than geopolitical psychosis. An unhinged blend of Orthodox ultranationalism, fascist paranoia, and terminal online posting. But buried in the hallucinatory sprawl is a blueprint for what Russia’s ideological vanguard now sees as the next phase: war with Europe, justified not by security, but by metaphysics.
What sets this dispatch apart is not the claim that the EU is descending into militarism, but its framing of Pax Europea as a satanic alternative to Pax Americana. Dugin paints the EU’s military posture as the product of “liberal Nazism,” a fanatical crusade against tradition. But the truth is more banal, and more damning. Europe is arming because of Putin. Not because it wants war, but because it no longer trusts peace. The tanks in Poland, the drones in Slovakia, the rearmament in Germany, none of it would be happening if Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine.
The Pax Europea is not a strategy, it’s a consequence. A nervous response to Putin’s invasions and the erosion of trust in peace.
The usual suspects are paraded in front of the firing squad: Ursula von der Leyen, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer (now a staple in the fascist fever dream), even Donald Tusk. All are cast not as technocrats or neoliberals, but as high priests of “liberal Nazism” a phrase Dugin repeats like an incantation.
Dugin takes aim at Andrius Kubilius, a Lithuanian politician who (by Dugin’s account) has committed the unforgivable sin of acknowledging Europe’s need to arm itself. In Dugin’s paranoid cosmology, this is not a rational (if desperate) response to Russian imperial aggression, but an ideological crusade to annihilate Russia as a civilisational force. “Russia must be forced to stop being great,” Dugin quotes Kubilius as saying. In truth, Dugin has inverted the logic: it is not the EU that seeks war, but Russia that defines greatness as war.
“Liberal Nazism” is the term he uses to describe pluralism, LGBT rights, and NATO logistics. The enemies are not armies, but abstractions: cosmopolitanism, democracy, secularism. What Dugin calls ‘liberalism’ is any order that refuses submission.
For Putin and Dugin, everyone is a Nazi. Liberals are Nazis. Ukrainians are Nazis. The EU, with its gender quotas and carbon targets, is a Fourth Reich in disguise. Everyone, that is, except the elephant in the room. The one regime that actually parades itself through history in fascist drag (marches, martyrdom, mythologised bloodshed) is exempt. Russia, the country bombing civilians while quoting Dostoevsky, is never the problem. It’s always someone else playing Hitler.
A Multipolar Theology of Violence
Dugin’s worldview has always been theological, not analytical. He does not offer critique; he anoints enemies and blesses holy war. His language has the pulse of apocalypse. America is ruled by the “Epstein Party” not a metaphor, but a theory of rule. The EU is “Nazi-liberal,” not for its policies, but for its secularism. Russia, by contrast, is the seat of spiritual truth. This is not foreign policy. It’s eschatology.
The new multipolar order he imagines is not the realist dream of spheres of influence. It’s a triptych of warring civilisations, each carrying its own messianic burden. Pax Americana (now MAGA-fied), Pax Sinica (China’s disciplined rise), and Pax Russica (Orthodoxy, tanks, and eternal sacrifice). Pax Europea, the newest enemy, is a Frankenstein of modernity, whose purpose is to destroy what Dugin believes is Russia’s sacred place in history.
This is not analysis of imperial blocs. It is fascist myth-making dressed as global theory. Europe becomes evil not because of its drones, but because of its gender studies departments.
The Europe He Needs to Invent
It would be a mistake to dismiss Dugin as merely mad. His delirium serves a purpose. What he paints as a Europe gripped by bloodlust is a continent struggling to hold a line. Yes, the EU is arming. Yes, it is bracing for a post-NATO world, particularly under Trump’s second term. But Dugin needs this to be something more. He needs it to be a mirror of his own side’s fanaticism. In this projection, Europe is no longer decadent, weak, and feminised (as it was in previous Dugin missives). Now it is fanatically violent, arming itself for civilisational war. The narrative has shifted from contempt to panic. That shift is revealing.
It suggests that for all the swagger about Russian destiny, there is fear. Not fear of tanks, but fear of the ideological vacuum around them. Dugin knows that Russia, stripped of its spiritual gloss, is a corrupt petro-state bombing cities and calling it tradition. So he paints the enemy in his own image, to keep the illusion alive.
Multipolarity here isn’t a balance of power. It’s a theology of doom. Each pole must be sacred. Each war must be holy. Peace is apostasy.
What He Really Fears
What Dugin fears most is not European aggression, or even MAGA betrayal. It is irrelevance. The unipolar world may have collapsed, but the Russian state (absent war) is not positioned to lead anything. His panicked demand for a war of civilisations is not a show of strength. It is a confession of dependence. Russia needs war to be itself. Putin needs war ro survice.
His rant ends with a post calling for an “America Party” to take up arms against the “Epstein Party” a fantasy where Tucker Carlson runs on social justice, annexes Canada, bombs Iran, and somehow unites left and right into a postmodern Christo-fascist utopia. The target isn’t Biden, or even Trump. It is the very idea that politics could be boring again.
This is the pathology of Dugin’s fascism: it cannot survive without enemies, cannot breathe outside conflict. So it invents one: a blood-soaked, drone-heavy Pax Europea, just dangerous enough to justify another war, just cartoonish enough to seduce the paranoid.
Dugin’s Europe does not exist. But the war he’s calling for might.
