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Kamil Galeev Profile picture
@kamilkazani
Nov 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
There was never an "Islamic State of the Mamluks of Egypt". You just made it up

First, there was a Turkic State of the Turkic Mamluks

Then, there was a Circassian State of the Circassian Mamluks

In 1517, the King of Rome smashed Circassians and annexed Egypt into his empire
13-14th cc. - the Turkic State
14-16th cc. - the Circassian State
1517 - the Roman Conquest

Neither political realities, nor the political imagination of pre-modern polities had anything to do with an idea of nation state. Which was not even a thing before the French Revolution
Pre-history of pretty much any nation state is fictitious and largely made up. We describe very bizarre (from a modern standpoint) political orders and imaginations in a way they would make for a teleological nation state narrative

Purely political, nothing to do with reality
What is now "Turkey" was a Roman state

But what is now "Egypt" was a Turkic state

Fellahin had nothing to do with the state that ruled over Egypt. Just like "Turks" had nothing to do with the state that ruled over Anatolia

Village bumpkins, the state in no way represents them

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Nov 2
75 years since the first partition, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not over. Based on the last four weeks , we can only expect it to escalate, resulting in more mutual dehumanisation, more reciprocal violence, more of the previously uninvolved joining it on either side 🧵 Image
What kind of conflict it is?

Contrary to the popular opinion, this is not a war of religion. Religious or eschatological interpretations too often obfuscate the underlying reason of why it all happens

Territory

This is and has always been a territorial conflict Image
You will not understand dynamics of either the Arab-Jewish or Muslim-Jewish relations without realising the territorial nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Territorial conflict generates ideological justifications

Land is the base, ideology is the superstructure Image
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Nov 1
Loved this @LindseyGrahamSC interview

It shows why and how a Just War is logically equivalent to the Total War

1. As we fight a just war
2. Against the total evil
3. The war must have no limits, nor boundaries

It must be necessarily total, until the full annihilation
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Now, how often do we fight a Just War?

We always do

(as no side ever will say it fights an unjust one)

Consequently, neither of our wars can have limits or boundaries. The Just War argument logically excludes a possibility of limiting the war-related violence Image
And vice versa, if we wage a total war of the unlimited violence, the enemy must be also total, absolute

That is a Nazi

Consequently, mass indiscriminate killing of civilians will be almost invariably justified with the WWII references & allusions

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Oct 30
For context:

In the Russian Empire, Jews were not normally allowed to live east of the Pale of Settlement (red). While few privileged categories like rich merchants were allowed to settle in Russia proper, the absolute majority was locked to Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania
This however, applied only to the Western, Ashkenazi Jews

Bukhara Jews of modern Uzbekistan, Karaites of Crimea or foreign "Oriental" Jews were free from such limitations and could settle anywhere

Many Ashkenazi bought Ottoman passports specifically for this purpose Image
"My father was a Turkish subject and, therefore, I am a descendant of Janissaries. Who spared neither women, nor children, nor the underground millionaires"

has different meaning than it seems. It refers to the practice of buying the Ottoman passports for freedom of travel Image
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Oct 27
Somehow we all get the idea of biomass pyramid

There's more plants than herbivores, more herbivores than carnivores etc. The lower trophic levels weigh more. And "more" means few orders of magnitude more

Perhaps, we need to introduce an idea of a technology chain pyramid 🧵
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Consumer goods would constitute the lowest trophic level. Which means, the largest level by far. There's just way more of them compared all the upper levels combined

This is also the only level of the technology chain visible to the general audience Image
"Everything produced in China" means "everything I buy is produced in China". And everything I buy means consumer goods

1. We see only the lowest trophic level of the technology chain
2. We notice it is dominated by the Chinese production
3. Voila, China produces everything Image
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Oct 27
Cheap navalnist demagoguery

If you want to undermine the Russian war efforts, you should focus on undermining its military production

This table gives you the very first and basic idea of where to start
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It is very important to understand that the market of machine components is significantly more concentrated than the market of machines. The latter tends to be dominated by small to medium producers. The formers tend to be monopolistic

There are very few suppliers

Target them
The American contempt to Europe is performative and exaggerated. If you are looking for the quality, military industry grade hardware, the European capacities and capabilities are absolutely unmatched

With the singular exception of Japan, no one in the world stands even close Image
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Oct 26
"Western machinery is used to build Russian missiles" is not wrong. It's just lacks the context. And the context is:

Computerisation affected metalworking processes unevenly. Machining was so deeply revolutionised, that most of the Soviet conventional base became *useless* Image
It was absolutely necessary to replace the obsolete Soviet conventional equipment with the imported computerised machines. Starting from 2003, Putin replaced Soviet machines with the automated equipment from the U.S allies

That's how he revived the Russian military production Image
Forging and pressing were less affected by the implementation of digital control. Consequently, there was often no need to replace the existing equipment

In 2021, the ICBM producer Votkinsk still operated this screwdriver press built in 1915

That's where they build "Yars" btw
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