Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 17/02/2025kamilkazani.substack.com/p/why-did-pu...kamilkazani.substack.comWhy did Putin invade Ukraine?Question: Why did Putin decided to launch a full scale invasion? 5789
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 08/02/2025kamilkazani.substack.com/p/why-did-ye...kamilkazani.substack.comWhy did Yeltsin destroy Chechnya?In 1991, Moscow faced two disobedient ethnic republics: Chechnya and Tatarstan. 2577
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 01/02/2025kamilkazani.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...kamilkazani.substack.comOn the origins of Napoleon BonaparteThe single most important thing to understand about the background of Napoleon Bonaparte, is that he was born in the Mediterranean. 0494
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 25/01/2025kamilkazani.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...kamilkazani.substack.comOn the Origins of Bolshevik PartyThe Marxist movement in Russia started as a primordial soup of socialist clubs, groups and factions, without any clear, articulate ideology or regular structure. 3509
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 12/01/2025kamilkazani.substack.com/p/how-i-unde...kamilkazani.substack.comHow I understand the history of ChinaYour life has a limit but knowledge has none. 0535
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 04/01/2025What does China export? This question may sound dumb. And if it does, that is because it had been intentionally formulated to sound so. Everyone knows that China is producing everything. Everything you buy, everything you wear, everything you stare in, has been imported from China 1615
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 04/01/2025kamilkazani.substack.com/p/how-did-ch...kamilkazani.substack.comHow Did China Get Rich?Persons who begin with large capitals do not succeed, generally speaking, so well as those who begin with small ones cautiously administered. 0334
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 28/12/2024The thing about industrialisation of China is that China had not one but two separate industrialisations. One was chaotic, unsolicited. It started as a deviation from the industrial policy, and brought in the oceans of cash, from which the second was funded kamilkazani.substack.com/p/on-the-two...kamilkazani.substack.comOn the Two Industrialisations of ChinaThe rulers of China who initiated economic reforms of the 1980s were Communist, and were thinking about economy in a very Soviet way. 1648
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 22/12/2024Why read ancient texts? The primary reason would be: things have changed, people have not. 918928
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 21/12/2024kamilkazani.substack.com/p/how-did-ch...kamilkazani.substack.comHow Did China Get Rich?Persons who begin with large capitals do not succeed, generally speaking, so well as those who begin with small ones cautiously administered. 1343
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 14/12/2024Islam and Pessimism kamilkazani.substack.com/p/islam-and-... 2262
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 08/12/2024Glad that the Assad's regime has fallen. Not because it was a "dictatorship". In fact, I would say that living under some sort of autocracy has been a normal, default human condition since the dawn of civilisation. Nothing so special about it 27510
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 07/12/2024kamilkazani.substack.com/p/how-does-r...kamilkazani.substack.comHow does Russia make marine reactors?How does Russia make marine reactors? 2313
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 06/12/2024Litmus test in politics: Can you imagine a good and reasonable person taking an opposite side of yours? If not, you have a brainrot, because there are plenty and plenty of such people. What you need, is a few weeks of farm labor with no access to the internet. 28907
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 06/12/2024One peculiar aspect of Russian social structure is that the ruling elite has tons of "Historian Orientalist/Africanist" majors in it, usually with good language fluency. That is because the Oriental Studies departments have been a major recruiting pool for the KGB/FSB. 2697
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 01/12/2024In his “Clash of Civilizations” Samuel Huntington identified eight civilisations on this planet: Confucian, Japanese, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Western, Orthodox, Latin American, and, possibly, African I have always found this list a bit dubious, not to say self-contradictory: 47410
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 01/12/2024Why did they lose? Because they failed to conform to my preferences. They did stuff I hate. Had they conformed to my preferences, and did everything I like, they would have surely won. The greatest and the most widespread fallacy in the world. 2554
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 28/11/2024Samuel, Huntington. "The clash of civilizations." Foreign Affairs 72, no. 3 (1993): 22-49. 75711
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 28/11/2024We tend to forget how insanely rich was the UK compared to continental Europe just 100 years ago. Now look how did the tables reverse. Honestly, I find it unavoidable. A hegemon is bound to acquire nonsensical notions & practices. Then the hegemony goes, and all there is left is nonsense 79217
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 25/11/2024substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comBirds of AmericaDomestic vs Foreign market asymmetry 0220
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 24/11/2024Haven’t had such a pleasant reading for a long, long time. Great content, great style, presentation 5583
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 23/11/2024Revolution and the Jews Literacy rates in European Russia, 1897. Obviously, the data is imperfect. Still, it represents one crucial pattern for understanding the late Russian Empire. That is the wide gap in human capital between the core of empire and its Western borderland. 513220
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 21/11/2024Great news. Very much restores faith in the international law and the rules-based order. 1674
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani.org · 16/11/2024Why the USSR failed (and China succeeded) Short answer: There are two ways to build the edifice of industrial economy. The logical way is to build it up, from the foundations. The illogical way is to skip the foundations, and get to the roof asap. The USSR made it logically, China - illogically. 818533
