The Dispatch
Russian political thinker Alexander Dugin has issued a classification update regarding Iranian ballistic missiles. Writing on the social media platform X, Mr. Dugin stated: “Iranian missiles are the tool of God castigating the West as Sodom and Gamora. Iranian missile is sacred.”
This correspondent notes the following for the benefit of readers requiring context. Alexander Dugin is a Russian philosopher, political theorist, and author whose work on Eurasianism and the foundational principles of the Russian state has made him, in the assessment of numerous Western analysts, one of the most influential ideological architects of the Putin administration. He is sometimes referred to as “Putin’s brain,” a designation Mr. Dugin has neither confirmed nor denied in materials reviewed by this correspondent. His assessment of Iranian missiles as sacred should therefore be understood as a contribution from a figure with established proximity to one of the two major nuclear powers not currently firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iran.
The theological framework Mr. Dugin applies is drawn from the Book of Genesis, in which the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed by divine intervention as punishment for sins described variously across religious traditions as wickedness, inhospitality, and conduct the Lord found disagreeable. Mr. Dugin has applied this designation to the West collectively. The specific sins warranting the comparison were not enumerated in the post. The Iranian missiles, in this framework, are not weapons. They are instruments of correction.
This correspondent further notes that the Vice President of the United States this week described unidentified aerial phenomena as demonic entities. The Secretary of War has asked defence contractors to accelerate weapons production. The contractors have not received funded orders. The military operation, which is not a war, continues. Into this environment, Mr. Dugin has introduced the category of sacred ordnance.
The classification has been noted. The missiles remain in flight.
Source Block
Primary source: Alexander Dugin — @AGDugin on X, post 2037005417780322709
Archived copy: archive.org
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Retrieved: 2026-03-28
