Top Putin Adviser Takes Victory Lap, Praises Trump in Shocking Interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria: ‘Putinism Has Won’

Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian philosopher sometimes referred to as “[Vladimir] Putin’s brain,” took a victory lap over the United States’ foreign policy inclinations under President Donald Trump in a shocking interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria over the weekend.

After introducing Dugin, Zakaria observed that “You write in your most recent book that ‘Putinism has won in the United States,'” before asking his guest what that means.

“I think that now we assist a huge transformation of the global system. Trump, in my opinion, is something very special. It is not just charismatic leader, but he represent a kind of ideology that changes the balance of the power in the world,” answered Dugin. “So we have the different United States, not the stronghold and the headquarter of globalism, but the kind of sovereign national state, global power, with traditional values as well with totally different agenda on the level on the international affair, and these new conditions, I think that Putin’s Russia and Putin personally, stops to be the main enemy, the main, the main evil guy, bad guy. So I think that Trumpists and the followers of Trump, will understand much better what Russia is, who Putin is, and the motivation of our politics. So we have now, immediately, we have discovered many points that are common for the United States of America — Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia.”

“Would it be fair to say is, what you’re saying is that there is now a kind of deep ideological alignment between Trump and Trumpism, and Putin and Putinism, and it is against Europe? The United States and Russia, in that sense, are now together, and Europe, European liberalism, is in some sense the new enemy?” followed-up Zakaria.

“We have many points in common with Trump’s America, much more than it seems on the surface. But maybe it is too early to speak about the real alliance between U.S. and Russia against Europe, because it is not against Europe. It is against globalism. But nevertheless, I think that if, for example, Trump would withdraw United States from the war against us in Ukraine. There could be a situation that we will fight against European globalists, European liberals in Ukraine without America,” replied Dugin. So I think that Trump, sooner or later, and maybe sooner than we presume, then we presume, he will discover that Putin has absolutely nothing against United States, no reason to continue the fight, no reason to oppose or to nowhere, no field of competition, and that is different from China.”

Dugin went on to cite “realism in international affairs” as well as a supposed defense of “Christian faith” as two similarities between Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia, affirmatively agreeing with former Trump adviser and right-wing media personality Steve Bannon on the latter point.

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