MCYSEKA-Maritime Cyber Security Knowledge Archive

On February 23, 2023, Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia) aired an interview with Russian anti-liberal philosopher Aleksander Dugin. Dugin said that Russia cannot afford to lose the war in Ukraine because this would lead to domestic unrest, a civil war, and its ultimate collapse, and he asserted that the Russians will “fight to the end” and will only be satisfied once Ukraine is “fully liberated from the pro-NATO political elites.” He also said that if Russia starts losing the war, it may use nuclear weapons, and he explained that “allowing” Russia to win in Ukraine would actually constitute a victory for the West because it would prevent nuclear war. He said that Ukraine is destined to disappear, whether through a Russian victory or in a nuclear apocalypse that would destroy all of humanity, and he lamented the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which led to Ukraine’s independence. Moreover, Dugin said that the West is the “Antichrist”, the “source of absolute evil”, and that it uses artificial intelligence to “destroy the family, sex, and the nature of human beings”. He explained that Muslims understand that this is true, and that Russian President Vladimir Putin disagrees and rather sees the West as a partner that is behaving aggressively.