The Russian philosopher says he hopes his travel restrictions will be lifted soon so he can witness the tectonic shift in the US under Trump
Russian philosopher and political scientist Aleksandr Dugin hopes to see the US sanctions lifted soon so he can visit the country and experience what he believes will be a historical political shift under President-elect Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against the Moscow-based Center for Geopolitical Expertise (CGE), a think tank founded by Dugin, accusing it of “stok[ing] socio-political tensions and influenc[ing] the US electorate during the 2024 US election.” It alleged that the CGE used deepfakes and AI tools to disseminate falsehoods while acting at the behest of the Russian military intelligence agency (GRU). Moscow has consistently denied meddling in US elections.
Reacting to the latest restrictions, the philosopher said on Saturday, “I hope they lift sanctions in 2025 on me. I want to visit the US. There are many good friends there.”
Dugin himself has been under US sanctions since 2015 for what Washington sees as his role in actions that “threaten Ukraine’s territorial integrity.” The designation came after the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, which sparked a powerful revolt in Donbass, now part of Russia, which Dugin supported.
He went on to say that he “enjoy[s] bro-revolution and right woke turn. Very curious about the new saeculum and First Turn.” The philosopher was apparently referring to the idea that after Trump’s reelection, America entered a new historical cycle – the likes of which happens once in several generations.
Dugin has described Trump’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris as a “true ideological revolution” that will eventually pave the way for America to rid itself of hyper-individualism, cancel culture, and hatred of its own heritage.
Dugin is known as a fervent defender of traditional values, a foreign policy hawk, and an ideologue of ‘Eurasianism’, the idea of a geopolitical bloc uniting Europe and Asia to push back against Western liberalism. The Western media often refers to him ‘Putin’s brain’, due to his supposed influence on the Russian president.
