Americans should pay attention to the ideology of a Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin and his intellectual interest in India - not because Indian immigrants are inherently a security threat, but because foreign political ideologies can travel with people, networks, money, media and institutions. IYKYK
Dugin’s “multipolarity” theory explicitly describes Russia, India, and China as distinct civilizational poles and argues that India should reclaim its Vedic/Hindu civilizational identity while rejecting the West as a universal model. He has also praised Modi’s effort to restore India’s Vedic roots.
That creates a legitimate question for Americans as Indian migration to the United States continues:
What happens when an individual comes to America not merely to work, study or build a life, but while retaining a political worldview that regards the United States and Western liberalism as a declining civilization and sees Russia, India and other non-Western powers as alternative civilizational poles?
If individuals with access to sensitive technology, government institutions, universities, political organizations, media networks or strategic industries actively advance the interests of a foreign state or knowingly participate in influence operations - that can become a national-security issue regardless of whether they came from India, Russia, China or anywhere else.
The U.S. intelligence community explicitly warns that Russia uses foreign influence operations, intermediaries, social-media networks and unwitting Americans to spread narratives designed to divide Americans and undermine democratic processes.