In 1997, Alexander Dugin published a book that became a textbook at Russia’s General Staff Academy. He wrote out the plan explicitly: create “geopolitical disorder in American domestic life” by encouraging “all kinds of separatism, various ethnic, social and racial conflicts,” actively supporting “extremist, racist and sectarian groups,” and simultaneously backing “isolationist tendencies” among “often right-wing Republicans” who believe the United States should focus only on internal problems. That was 1997. It is now 2026. In April 2025, Trump imposed tariffs on virtually every country in the world. Russia, Belarus, and North Korea were exempted. Trump unilaterally ended US cyber operations against Russia. He voted with Russia at the UN on Ukraine resolutions. He blocked G7 statements condemning Russian conduct. He removed American intelligence support from Ukraine and, according to French historian Françoise Thom, helped Putin recapture the Kursk region by doing so. He is in the process of dismantling American military logistics in Poland. Russian state television host Solovyov’s assessment: “Trump has given us four years to prepare for the great European war that is inevitable.” Dugin’s comment in 2017: “I noticed in Donald Trump many similarities with my thinking, and I could have written his inaugural speech.” The 1997 textbook is not a theory. It is a checklist.
