We see it emerge what several countries (Baltic states, Poland, etc.) have already anticipated, and Putin announced 25 years ago: Russia wants to realize #Eurasia.
[--> A. #Dugin, Ivan A. #Ilyin]. Let Trump's USA take Venezuela and Greenland... for that. That's the trajectory of the 🇺🇸/🇷🇺 deal.
#Ilyin found historical explanation immoral because it treats worldly facts as meaningful, whereas for him, history is fallen, corrupt, and meaningless. The only true moral meaning comes from mystical unity with the divine/national spirit.
For #Ilyin, our human world of facts and passions is senseless. Ilyin found it immoral that a fact might be grasped in its historical setting: “the world of empirical existence cannot be theologically justified.” God erred in his creation by releasing “the evil nature of the sensual.”
#TimothySnyder
#Ilyin believed that the Russian White movement was deeper and broader than Italian fascism as it embraced the sort of Christianity that demanded the blood sacrifice of God’s enemies; and that one day Russia would liberate itself and others from the decadent West with the help of Christian fascism.
#Ilyin regarded fascism as the politics of the world to come.
He has, as no other thinker of the twentieth century, enjoyed great influence on world politics in the twenty-first. If this went unnoticed it was because we are in the thrall of #inevitability: we believe that ideas do not matter.
