Alexander Dugin Has Chosen his Americans
During Operation Epic Fury, Russia's leading ideologue — also known as "Putin's brain" — posted 2,000+ times in favor of Iran and crowned Tucker Carlson as "America's true conservative hero"
The analysis below was produced with AI assistance, using a dataset of Dugin’s retweet and quote tweet activity on X spanning the exact duration of Operation Epic Fury — February 28 to April 8, 2026, from the first US strikes on Iran through the “ceasefire” (?) that technically holds today.
Over the course of Operation Epic Fury, Alexander Dugin — the infamous Russian philosopher widely regarded as the intellectual godfather of Vladimir Putin’s geopolitical worldview — published roughly 60 posts mentioning Tucker Carlson. That’s 1.5 per day, every day from February 28 to April 8, making Carlson one of the most referenced figures in his entire feed.
On March 4, in a burst of posts following the Iran strikes, Dugin published what reads as a political coronation: “Tucker Carlson is absolutely great. Greatest... He is the MAGA. Trump is neocon nothing else. He is over.” And then: “Your Conservative Revolution was hijacked by pedophiles. Rescue it.”
By mid-March: “Tucker Carlson is now so far most important essential political figure in the U.S. Everybody is measured by the agree or disagree with him.”
When the ceasefire came: “Tucker Carlson has won just now the war for the truth and dignity. Absolute winner.”
Then on April 8, Dugin mapped the entire MAGA split onto the German Conservative Revolution of the 1920s: “Trump/Netanyahu/Zionists = Hitler. Tucker Carlson/Candace/Alex Jones = Conservative Revolution.” His framing: Trump hijacked a genuine movement, just as Hitler hijacked the real German conservatives. Tucker is the authentic heir.
The German Conservative Revolutionaries he invokes — Müller van den Bruck, Jünger, Evola — made the philosophical groundwork for what came next, and were then either co-opted or destroyed by it. Whether or not the analogy holds, the embrace is unambiguous.
The Broader Picture
The Tucker fixation doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Over the same 40 days, Dugin generated 2,066 retweets and quote tweets (48 per day). I analyzed these using AI tools. The network he was amplifying tells you exactly who he is trying to stitch together. His top accounts:
Disinformation peddler Mario Nawfal (87 retweets)
Constantin von Hoffmeister of Arktos (63)
Belgian New Right theorist Robert Steuckers (36)
Moscow-based (?) Jackson Hinkle (25)
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom (21)
Certifiable Looney Tune Alex Jones (20).
Notable runners-up include @RT_com (16), @DD_Geopolitics (16), @JohnMappin (15), @RealCandaceO (13), @alon_mizrahi (12), and @s_m_marandi (11).
The Iranian regime dominated Dugin’s content, consistently framed as a heroic civilization standing against the US-Israeli machine — the “Katechon,” in his theological vocabulary, the force holding back globalism as Antichrist. By early March Dugin was amplifying Alex Jones’s eulogy for MAGA, Joe Rogan’s bewilderment, Joe Kent’s resignation letter. His own post (quote-tweeting Jack Posobiec) called Trump the “ante-Christ.”
The through-line connecting all of it — Iran as hero, Trump as traitor, Tucker as heir — is the same thesis Dugin has been writing books about for thirty years, now made operational. What is new is the operational specificity. He’s not just philosophizing. He is picking sides, naming names, and telling his global audience which Americans to bet on.
The data doesn’t tell you what Tucker Carlson intends. But it tells you exactly what Alexander Dugin is hoping for.
Thanks Eitan, handy list of people to avoid!