A year before the midterms, Dugin was already describing how Trump’s own base could make Republicans lose the midterms. He named the American influencers he thought could pull that support away, identified Israel as the issue that would split the party, and said what Trump would have to give in to Russia to reverse course. On November 14, 2025 he described the pressure campaign in public. Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, and Nick Fuentes were the media figures in the that would help punish Trump. He described the Groypers pressing Republican figures in public to choose between America First and Israel First, and said the Israel issue will bring parts of the MAGA right and the anti-Israel left into alignment. Then he said what he wanted Trump to do which was change course on Netanyahu and the Middle East, renounce interventions, improve relations with Moscow, and help end the Ukraine war “on our terms.” That was an interview he did on Sputnik. It was then printed in English by Arktos. Today he reinforced that message blaming Trump’s backing of Netanyahu, the war with Iran, and the economic and energy fallout. He said Trump sided with neoconservatives, Zionists, and what Dugin called the deep state, and “lost everything.” His bluntest line was “Iran defeated Trump.” He laid out the strategy for how he was going to run control over American foreign policy in 2025. And then his favorite influencers, who he specifically named helped carry it out. Up to saying Trump would start nuclear war the day before the midterms.