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 âfight to the endâ and will only be satisfied once Ukraine is âfully liberated from the pro-NATO political elites.â He also said that if Russia starts losing the war, it may use nuclear weapons, and he explained that âallowingâ 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 Ukraineâs independence. Moreover, Dugin said that the West is the âAntichristâ, the âsource of absolute evilâ, and that it uses artificial intelligence to âdestroy the family, sex, and the nature of human beingsâ. 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.