Daily reminder that Duginism is not merely a recent phenomenon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War#Pre-war_negotiationsThe 1890s and 1900s marked the height of the "Yellow Peril" propaganda by the German government, and the German Emperor Wilhelm II (r. 1888–1918) often wrote letters to his cousin Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, praising him as the "saviour of the white race" and urging Russia forward in Asia.
Nowadays, this label is applied to Putin.
From November 1894 onward, Wilhelm had been writing letters praising Nicholas as Europe's defender from the "Yellow Peril", assuring the Tsar that God Himself had "chosen" Russia to defend Europe from the alleged Asian threat.
Nowadays, WNs praise Russia (as well as other Turandom-countries) as "defenders" against the "Islamic threat".
Then there is this:
Wilhelm had written to Nicholas stating that the question of Russian interests in Manchuria and Korea was beside the point, saying instead it was a matter of Russia "undertaking the protection and defence of the White Race, and with it, Christian civilization, against the Yellow Race. And whatever the Japs are determined to ensure the domination of the Yellow Race in East Asia, to put themselves at its head and organise and lead it into battle against the White Race. That is the kernel of the situation, and therefore there can be very little doubt about where the sympathies of all half-way intelligent Europeans should lie. England betrayed Europe's interests to America in a cowardly and shameful way over the Panama Canal question, so as to be left in 'peace' by the Yankees. Will the 'Tsar' likewise betray the interests of the White Race to the Yellow as to be 'left in peace' and not embarrass the Hague tribunal too much?"
Nowadays, WNs (contrary to Hitler) increasingly engage in the same kind of anglophobia, which also forms their common factor with non-"white" Duginists like kameradbaren:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-eternal-anglo(In addition, note how the subtitle below the "Eternal Anglo" uses a typeface typically found in video games from the counterculture era, whereas the subtitle below the "White Europeans" uses a blackletter typeface banned by National Socialist Germany in 1941!)
Of course, just like nowadays WN-ism, the sentiments expressed by colonial era-Germany's ridiculous "Kaiser" also had their echo within Russia itself:
Nicholas held the Japanese in contempt as "yellow monkeys", and he took for granted that the Japanese would simply yield in the face of Russia's superior power, which thus explains his unwillingness to compromise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Solovyov_(philosopher)#Life_and_workSolovyov's attempts to chart a course of civilization's progress toward an East-West Christian ecumenicism developed an increasing bias against Asian cultures which he initially studied with great interest.
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Solovyov spent his final years obsessed with fear of the "Yellow Peril", warning that soon the Asian peoples, especially the Chinese, would invade and destroy Russia. Solovyov further elaborated in his apocalyptic short story "Tale of the Antichrist" published in the Nedelya newspaper on February 27, 1900, in which China and Japan join forces to conquer Russia. His 1894 poem Pan-Mongolism, whose opening lines serve as epigraph to the story, was widely seen as predicting the coming Russo-Japanese War.
So when will China and Japan finally join forces and realize Solovyov's vision?
Also worthy of note:
He dismissed the Buddhist concept of Nirvana as a pessimistic nihilistic "nothingness" which was antithetical to salvation, no better than Gnostic dualism.
As an active member of Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia, he spoke Hebrew and struggled to reconcile Judaism and Christianity. Politically, he became renowned as the leading defender of Jewish civil rights in tsarist Russia in the 1880s. Solovyov also advocated for his cause internationally and published a letter in The London Times pleading for international support for his struggle. The Jewish Encyclopedia describes him as "a friend of the Jews" and states that "Even on his death-bed he is said to have prayed for the Jewish people".
The link between Duginism, anti-Gnosticism and Judeo-Christianity laid bare in one person!