End of Year; Yes! End of Democracy? No! The Dreaded 2025
A concise selection of important and eye opening reading material for a quiet New Year's Day; Bon Appetit!
They’ll never know. They’ll never know. They’ll never know.
Finally we have arrived at new year’s day 2025, for me this holiday has always been the slowest day in all of time. Now though this day gives me all the time in the world that I need combined with all of January to be flowing four more years.
Pay careful attention to the various multitudinous linearization discoverable across domestic and international relationships, all of which fall under the reach of EO 13848: in examples think tanks, PACS, Politicians, pundits, media outlets, etcetera.
You have eyes, ears, and minds put them to work and think about all the things you are learning here and where this is all heading.
I was pleased to read at Tin Foil Matt’s newsletter that today the U.S. Government has taken steps to secure the election and perhaps redress some essential outstanding issues and priorities, “Treasury Sanctions Entities in Iran and Russia That Attempted to Interfere in the U.S. 2024 Election”1 a press release of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, December 31, 2024.
GRU-AFFILIATED ENTITY USES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS TO INTERFERE IN THE U.S. 2024 ELECTION
The Moscow-based Center for Geopolitical Expertise (CGE), founded by OFAC-designated Aleksandr Dugin, directs and subsidizes the creation and publication of deepfakes and circulated disinformation about candidates in the U.S. 2024 general election. CGE personnel work directly with a GRU unit that oversees sabotage, political interference operations, and cyberwarfare targeting the West. Since at least 2024, a GRU officer and CGE affiliate directed CGE Director Valery Mikhaylovich Korovin (Korovin) and other CGE personnel to carry out various influence operations targeting the U.S. 2024 presidential election.
At the direction of, and with financial support from, the GRU, CGE and its personnel used generative AI tools to quickly create disinformation that would be distributed across a massive network of websites designed to imitate legitimate news outlets to create false corroboration between the stories, as well as to obfuscate their Russian origin. CGE built a server that hosts the generative AI tools and associated AI-created content, in order to avoid foreign web-hosting services that would block their activity. The GRU provided CGE and a network of U.S.-based facilitators with financial support to: build and maintain its AI-support server; maintain a network of at least 100 websites used in its disinformation operations; and contribute to the rent cost of the apartment where the server is housed. Korovin played a key role in coordinating financial support from the GRU to his employees and U.S.-based facilitators.
In addition to using generative AI to construct and disseminate disinformation targeting the U.S. electorate in the lead up to the U.S. 2024 general election, CGE also manipulated a video it used to produce baseless accusations concerning a 2024 vice presidential candidate in an effort to sow discord amongst the U.S. electorate.
Today, OFAC is designating CGE [Alexander Dugin] and Korovin pursuant to E.O. 13848 for having directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign malign influence in the 2024 U.S. election.2
The following quoted line of thinking by the now sanctioned Center for Geopolitical Expertise* is but a teaspoon taste of a lengthy piece; be sure to take the time to at least scroll through this report and take note of the names and activities and do not be surprised when you find yourself sitting up with your eyes somewhat wider open when you reach the end.
“The Eurasian Empire will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, the strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate”3 -Alexander Dugin
As found at the Byline Times
[* errata correction, “Engagement”]
Now let us get down to business:
The Republican majority “is the threat from the Kremlin’s point of view, because there are no internal contradictions, no internal chaos,” said Venediktov. “It was important for the Kremlin that the winning candidate was Mr. or Mrs. Chaos.”4
‘We have won’: Russians envision new global system with Trump victory
In the weeks leading up to the election, Russian officials sought to downplay their interest in the vote, but that public stance was belied by what U.S. officials said were intensifying Kremlin-directed disinformation operations seeking to stoke chaos and target Harris. The operations built on earlier efforts to stoke isolationist sentiments, according to documents previously reported on by the Post.
In the end, Russian efforts to interfere in the 2024 election were “pretty marginal to the overall trend of voter sentiment,” said Eric Ciaramella, a former White House official now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, especially compared to 2016 when U.S. intelligence officials concluded that a Russian hack and leak operation had helped change the narrative in support of Trump.
But analysts also noted that more than a decade of Russian propaganda operations amplifying anti-establishment isolationist voices through increasingly sophisticated social media operations, including on X, changed the mainstream political debate in a way that would never have been possible via traditional media.
“On a digital platform, your ability to do these things works,” said Clint Watts, the head of Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center. Following the vote, X owner Elon Musk hailed the result as cementing the power of his platform to provide alternative views over “legacy media.”5
Who is this Dugin person again? And why do top Republican politicians and other Americans admire and approve of his thinking.
Dugin explicitly warns that it is folly to ridicule Russia’s reasons for going to war. ‘Eschatology is present in our minds and influences our decisions,’ he says. ‘You can laugh at it, but you should remember that you laugh at people with nuclear weapons. I see no reason why we should not use them or why Putin will hesitate to use them if Russia starts to fail.’6
He goes on in the closing paragraph staying tightly connected to his eschatology.
Dugin, typically, compares the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine to the Passion of Christ. ‘Our God was crucified,’ he says. ‘Was that the failure of our God, Jesus Christ? No, that was the sacrifice for the salvation of humanity. The beginning of this special military operation is a kind of religious act… the consequences we’ll see later. It was one of the greatest decisions in world history because, religiously and geopolitically, it was the beginning of the fight against Satan.’ Given the apocalyptic stakes, the question of how many Ukrainians and Russians will die is, to his mind, a moot point.7
Aleksandr Dugin: ‘I see no reason why we should not use nuclear weapons’
Now let us start to connect some dots across the oceans to Executive Order (E.O.) 13848, the U.S. election interference authority.
Below some excerpts from an opinion-piece found at the Wilson Center, well worth their price of time for reading.
Dugin in this interview is playing to the curiosity of Western listeners, on the one hand, and the interests of the Kremlin authorities on the other. Essentially, his position is that liberalism’s universalist (“globalist,” to use Dugin’s term) agenda takes its unwitting followers away from the collective identities of old—the empire, the nation, the family, and a clearly defined gender. Through artificial intelligence, Dugin says, liberalism is threatening to break the last collective identity standing, human personhood itself.8
Even while being mindful of these excerpts as originating from an opinion piece, there is much still to be learned.
During the twenty minutes of the interview, Tucker nods along with Dugin’s speechifying, and at various point agrees: “What you’re describing is clearly happening and it’s horrifying!” He asks a question about “the phenomenon” of “hatred” directed toward Russia by the West—as if the reason for that were not Russia’s attacks on neighboring states, its destruction of entire cities, leading to countless deaths, and the killing of Putin’s political opponents. No, the reason is that Putin defends family values.
In this way Carlson pushes the Kremlin’s line, and in way that resonates with the hard-right factions in America. This should worry all Americans as the presidential election draws near.9
The US Right-Wing Media Embrace Russia’s Far-Right Ideologue
Alexander Dugin: Ideologue of a New Authoritarian World Order
To understand the gravity of Dugin’s retweets, one must first grasp who he is. Alexander Dugin is no ordinary political commentator. His philosophy of “Eurasianism” envisions a post-liberal global order dominated by Russia and allied states. He calls for the “end of Western civilisation,” not in abstract terms but through concrete political and cultural dismantling.
Dugin’s influence on Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin is significant, even if indirect. His book The Foundations of Geopolitics is a blueprint for Russian foreign policy, advocating for information warfare and the manipulation of internal divisions in Western democracies. “Dugin is not merely an ideologue but an architect of chaos,” says Mark Galeotti, a scholar on Russian power structures. “His ideas feed into the Kremlin’s playbook for destabilising the West.”
Elon Musk: Amplifier or Actor?
Elon Musk, by contrast, operates in a world seemingly detached from geopolitics. But Musk’s influence as the owner of X (formerly Twitter) and his penchant for controversial statements on global issues—from Ukraine to Germany, has elevated him to a position of enormous political significance.
The danger lies not in a formal alliance between Musk and Dugin but in their mutual utility. Dugin sees Musk as a tool to amplify anti-liberal narratives in the West. Musk, in turn, benefits from the support of figures like Dugin, who provide ideological cover for his actions and statements.
This convergence is emblematic of a larger trend: the erosion of democratic values by figures who, intentionally or not, serve as conduits for authoritarian influence. Dugin’s tweets are a stark reminder of how the tools of modern communication—social media platforms, viral content, and influential voices—are being weaponised.
As Anne Applebaum has written, “The new authoritarianism does not rely on tanks and soldiers but on networks and narratives.” Dugin’s retweets of Musk epitomize this shift. By amplifying Musk, Dugin is co-opting a voice that has the power to influence millions in the West, furthering his own authoritarian agenda.10
Alexander Dugin and Elon Musk: An Unholy Alliance of Influence?
Arguably one of the most important essays to be written that presents an all together top-Key motivation behind the Musk Cabal and associates is in the following must read essay by
, an undeniable eye-opener!four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa.
Thank you for reading,
Robert J. Rei, January 1, 2025
Treasury Sanctions Entities in Iran and Russia That Attempted to Interfere in the U.S. 2024 Election, Press Releases, U.S. Department of Treasury, December 31, 2024, https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2766
Ibidem
After Trump’s Return, Britain Is Next in the Firing Line of Putin’s War On Democracy: The real reasons lying behind Elon Musk’s relentless attacks on Keir Starmer and the UK Government, Nafeez Ahmed, December 12, 2024, Byline times, https://bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/after-trumps-return-britain-is-next-in-the-firing-line-of-putins-war-on-democracy/
‘We have won’: Russians envision new global system with Trump victory, Francesca Ebel and Catherine Belton, the Washington Post, November 7, 2024, The Spokesman-Review, https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/nov/07/we-have-won-russians-envision-new-global-system-wi/
Ibidem
Aleksandr Dugin: ‘I see no reason why we should not use nuclear weapons’, Edward Stawiarski, January 6, 2024, The Spectator, https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-see-no-reason-why-we-should-not-use-nuclear-weapons-an-interview-with-russian-philosopher-aleksandr-dugin/
Ibidem,
The US Right-Wing Media Embrace Russia’s Far-Right Ideologue, Maxim Trudolyubov, Ekaterina Kotrikadze, The Russia File, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/us-right-wing-media-embrace-russias-far-right-ideologue
Ibidem
Alexander Dugin and Elon Musk: An Unholy Alliance of Influence? Vudi Xhymshiti, December 21, 2024, The Frontliner Magazine, https://frontliner.uk/alexander-dugin-and-elon-musk-an-unholy-alliance-of-influence/
It sounds like to me that someone needs to get rid of Musk. And soon.