Ukraine the pivot - Istanbul the prize

Dugin desires to see Moscow presiding over a Eurasian empire stretching from Dublin to Vladivostok in which Istanbul will return to Constantinople (or “Tsargrad”). For Dugin, the invasion of Ukraine represents merely the first step in this “Great Slavic Reconquista.”  FROM https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/into_the_irrational_core_of/89567746?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,89567746,previd=1646497897101116477,nextid=1646417683689717398&previd=1646497897101116477&nextid=1646417683689717398