"Kaml, welcome to the state 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 um I think we're both sort of I don't know politi..."

"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 triangulate and and figure things out. And um ther..."

"did not have this pronounced capital in a sense that St. Petersburg. >> Well, it was preceded by the warlord era, right? So that almost was by definition like the Chinese civil war was preceded by the..."

"medieval order was indeed contradictory. M >> so first of all over most of country of course the ultimate power belongs to nobles so kind of noble land owners aristocrats of high pedigree who control ..."

"one that's quote directly governed by the king is is in your view, the one that's not governed because the king doesn't have time to govern it. But the other ones governed by a count or a baron are ac..."

"So from the perspective of French monarchy I would say these three with three primarily challenges to their power. So three primary internal security threats and uh starting from somewhere like 16th c..."

"Governor is always a great noble. He's some kind of duke or count or baron. He is he usually governed the same province where he grew up in where he hold his estates. He's connected by many familial u..."

"and um and then in theory some other empire can be rebuilt again from this warlordism. Uh I think it is partially true because indeed probably experiences of most humans. They are worse at the times o..."

"more so than he was certainly in the first term, but even still, habits die hard. And I thought that was a very good insight, a very good way of phrasing it, that the ones in power basically are like,..."

"wanted to give a decision, he wouldn't say, "Oh, it's my decision because I'm a boss. you. No, no, no, no. He would never do that. He would approach a bookshelf, take a volume of Lenin, find a quote a..."

"not used any paper at all, just do it orally. And uh in Soviet Union, you would have protocol, you would have kind of decisions, you would have signatures, much more papers as a result, including when..."

"[Music] kind of that they would have to um support it financially and another thing that was just afraid there will be too many centralations. Yes. And and the thing of it, you know, one thing that I ..."

"know, Yeltson was a drunk and um the there was like this whole thing with them shelling the White House and on and on and on. Basically, it really sucked to be Russian in the '90s. And then it was the..."

"disillusionment disappointment a lot of um pain a lot of stateowned enterprises in China plenty of them they suffered or just were wiped out so generally speaking you have some of the processes you ar..."

"forth. A lot of that will have to be imported and it'll have to be gotten through and god knows what you know the customs are going to charge and so and so it's all kinds of uncertain costs which are ..."

"I'll not allow like any filthy hobbits to take a bit of it. So it was much more of defensive thinking. It's not that we will create something new and interesting as it was in China as that we will not..."