#22 - Kamil Galeev

Kamal, welcome to the Network Shade podcast.

Thank you so much. Nice to see you.

So you've got a very interesting voice on x and, a voice on Substack. And, I think we're both sort of, I don't know, politically idiosyncratic kind of people who like to sort of see things from a distance, and we've carried on discussion over the last few years and so on and so forth. Do wanna kinda introduce yourself for the audience for those people who don't know? You're Camille Kazani dot sub sec dot com. I think you're go ahead.

Yeah. So, thank you so much for introduction. My name is Kamil Galif, and I'm writing Okay. A pen name, Kamil Kazani.

So Okay. Great. Fine. I didn't know whether you wanted to say what your pen name was, but go ahead. Yeah.

Yeah. So originally, I'm from Russia. I'm a cousin Tatar. So that is where where my nickname is coming from. And I'm primarily interested on this in the social institutions and how they work and their dynamics. And at this point, my primary focus of interest is revolution. So, basically, when transformative social change happens, how and why. And I find it really interesting and promising, partially because in modern discourse, revolution and coup, they have a sort of theological or religious meaning, a sort of like miracle just in social sphere. So what I find interesting and promising is jus

Okay. Got it. And so the thing is, you mentioned you're you know, you have a Tatar background or Tatar background. Is it Tatar or Tatar?

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I pronounce it? Okay. So, I find that interesting and helpful because, basically, you know, for example, for when I'm when I'm when I'm understanding China, I will try to read things from a Chinese nationals perspective or Chinese communist perspective, but also from a Chinese liberal perspective. And then I could kind of triangulate and figure out, you know, like like views from that. And so I like reading your views, and I kind of, you know, can can contrast that from the Russian nationalist perspective or the Estonian perspective. And it's helpful because I think then you can sort of triang