This musing will discuss the assassination of Alexandra Dugina, daughter of Alexandr Dugin.
It’s always surprising that people advocate for violence against others that they may not even know exist. It’s understandable that people within a nation would support a defensive war against an invader. However, advocating for aggression of a foreign people leaves one open for the same to happen to them.
I’ve been following Alexandr Dugin, a Russian political theorist who theorizes about Russian geopolitical objectives and interests. He has always had provocative and inflammatory rhetoric, and prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was interviewed internationally because of his rhetoric. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dugin has earned a level of notoriety due to his disturbing thoughts about the conduct of Russian foreign conflict. Dugin has advocated for Russian forces to commit atrocities in order to gain a battlefield or strategic advantage over Ukraine, including massacring non combatants, and displacing Ukrainian children to be raised by Russian families to Russify them. Dugin’s candor of, frankly, horrific actions, exemplifies the totalitarian mindset.
This sociopathic behavior views people as an object to achieve a greater end, rather than as a person with their own needs and desires. Dugin believes sees human conflicts at a macro level; ethnic Russians fighting for their survival on the world stage. The death or suffering of individual Russians is not weighed when considering “the whole”. Dugin also does not see foreigners as individuals, but rather an entity acting as an obstacle for the overall endstate of the Russian people. Dugin believes in collective punishment.
It is rather ironic that a man who views groups of people as a whole, rather than as individuals, is impacted by the death of his own daughter, who was assassinated by Ukrainian intelligence forces in 2022. In the picture at the beginning of this musing, Dugin clearly is distraught that his daughter was assassinated. For a brief moment, the sociopathy drops, and Dugin became a regular human being again.