If you have not heard of him, this is a decent introduction into the mind behind the mind of Putin. Also, of many people in the West.

“Dugin is a very influential Russian fascist philosopher who is a kind of Rasputin figure for Putin and who pushes the idea that the only way to return Russia to greatness is by wiping liberal democracy off the face of the earth. Dugin is relatively unknown in the West, except among members of the alt-right and the dark enlightenment, who would love to install the kind of fascist regime Dugin is advocating in their own countries.”

https://boingboing.net/2022/03/23/if-you-want-to-understand-putin-learn-about-alexander-dugin-the-fascist-russian-philosopher-beloved-by-the-u-s-s-far-right.html