"We cannot agree to the existence of sovereign Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Uzbekistan; either they will become part of our united union, or a trampoline for the US and the EU," said Alexander Dugin, author of many geopolitical books and ideologist of putinism. True, Dugin mixed Uzbekistan with the countries of the Caucasus, but this is another 1 of his aggressive statements. In the years preceding the invasion against Ukraine, he likewise spoke of Kiev.