It starts the way these things always do—not with fire, but with emptiness. Empty shelves, empty wages, empty promises. A pension gutted. A war sold as patriotism. A flag used like a bandage to cover up rot. People notice. Not all at once, but enough of them. And in Russia, when enough notice, they remember. They remember the old songs—not the anthems, but the ones their parents hummed in factories. They remember how the rent was once fixed, how schoolbooks didn’t cost, how y

There’s something especially pathetic about watching a man draped in postmodern Eastern mysticism and faux-anti-imperial gravitas melt into the reactionary swamp of Trumpist and NATO apologism. Alexander Dugin—longtime Russian ideologue, mystic nationalist, and alleged “Putin’s brain”—recently took to social media to suggest that the Azov Battalion, NATO, and the CIA are behind the recent protests in Los Angeles. Yes, really. According to this bearded geopolitical astrologer,

The Red Army killed 86% of Nazis that died in combat in World War 2 and took Berlin.