The primary added value Dugin brought to Russian politics was a simple absolution. It goes like that (this is my paraphrase):
> They (the West) tell us we're corrupt and brutal, and we all time fail to improve? Great, because our corruption and brutality is actually our advantage and it's the sacred Russian way of life. We don't need to fix anything: we need more of this - being emotional, capricious, subject to whims.