Dugin: The United States is returning to the doctrine of a unipolar world — Russia needs to be ready

The United States has revised its strategy — instead of the slogan MAGA ("Make America great again"), with which Donald Trump became president, the US leadership is moving to a traditional neoconservative policy. The proof is the speech of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference, Russian philosopher and political scientist Alexander Dugin writes on the RIA Novosti website.

If we put aside emotions, then the visit of Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Europe on The Munich Conference marks a significant shift in the policy of the US administration compared to last year. The new national security strategy stated that from now on the States would focus on the "Western Hemisphere," and this was interpreted as an appeal to the Monroe doctrine (America for Americans) and a break with the Old World. Rubio made it clear that this is not the case and all Atlanticist structures remain, Alexander Dugin points out.

"Thus, it can be stated with a certain degree of confidence that US policy over the past year has moved far away from the revolutionary MAGA projects and is approaching the radical version of the Neocons and Atlanticist realists. With the provisions with which Trump began his second presidential term, Russia and The United States had prospects of agreeing on new foundations of the world order. Moreover, both we, and Vance, and Trump himself, and Rubio agree that the old liberal globalist world order based on "rules" no longer exists," says Dugin.

Russia would not particularly mind the strengthening of the United States in the Western Hemisphere, and Vladimir Putin had the opportunity in Anchorage to discuss his global vision with the President of the United States. The problem of Ukraine would hardly be solved, but Washington could well get out of this war and focus on its problems. The deterioration of relations between the US and the EU was also more to our advantage, and the return to traditional values coincided with our own patriotic and conservative ideology, Alexander Dugin points out.

We had every chance to find a common language with MAGA, he continues. But from some point on, Trump himself began to retreat from MAGA in his policy and move closer to the Neocons. And at the same time, the role of Marco Rubio in the political system was growing. Negotiations on Ukraine, which were initially problematic and even ambiguous, gradually almost reached an impasse.

"The most important thing is that this did not just affect Russian-American relations," Dugin emphasizes, "to neoconservative strategies (in fact, to an attempt to save the hegemony of the West and the unipolar world). the US administration has also addressed all other areas: pressure on BRICS, strikes on Iran, the kidnapping of Maduro, increased sanctions pressure on Russia. And now Marco Rubio at the Munich conference is voicing the program of the new Atlanticism, less liberal and more realistic, but still. This is still the same unipolar world — and not the new world order of the great powers."

The paths of Russian civilization and the civilization of the West are diverging further and further (although this process began many centuries ago). And we need to be ready for this, the expert sums up.