In Episode 116 [13] of the CounterVortex podcast [14], Bill Weinberg provides an overview of geostrategic and political thinking on the criticality of Eastern Europe and especially Ukraine, from the Crimean War [15] to the contemporary catastrophe. Despite contemporary misconceptions [16], Karl Marx [17] and Frederick Engels [18] shared the perception [19] of a "Russian menace to Europe [20]" with theorists of Western imperialism such as Halford John Mackinder [21], Lord Curzon [22], Alfred Thayer Mahan [23], Nicholas J. Spykman [24], and Zbigniew Brzezinski [25]. Arch-reactionary or openly fascist conceptions of "Eurasianism [26]" were taken up by the German Karl Haushofer [27] and the Russians Mikhail Katkov [28] and Ivan Ilyin [29]—the latter a formative influence [30] on Alexander Dugin [31], the intellectual mastermind [32] of Vladimir Putin's revanchist imperial project.
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