A lot of med and slavophilia is coming from a true recognition that NW Europe is blowing it and cuckier. More decadent. Clearly related.

However it's largely advocated most strongly but ethnics who do resent NW Europe's greater success, and cloud their resentment-fueled lauding of exhajnals in what is essentially woo. With some soccon red meat about how much England tolerates deviant lifestyles right now. Sort of a Right Wing Liberation Theology and Spiritual Pursuit. Hence we see a lot of Evola and desires to restore Empires from before racial thinking. It's not that it's nothing, but that it isnt material and therefore safe from easy criticism, and being enacted or injected anywhere. It's necessary but not sufficient like race would be (and their harkened epochs are not applicable to modernity at all, as they were small and not industrial. Back when it was city states or land empires rather than nation-states and continental blocks).