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TIL of Kremlin advisor Aleksandr Dugin’s 1997 book “Foundations of Geopolitics”, in which he calls for the annexation of Ukraine by Russia, for the UK to be cut off from Europe, and for the promotion of political chaos and isolationist tendencies in the USA

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