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Deputy PM Taro Aso Boldly Affirms Jap Supremacism
•�June 7, 2020
•�400 Words •�83 Comments
Aso: low virus death rate thanks to Japanese superiority Based. Though I suppose that some home-grown cucks don't see it that way: Aso's remarks instantly drew condemnation from opposition lawmakers for being tone-deaf and promoting national chauvinism. “Could you be any more condescending, Minister Aso?” Renho, a vice chair of the Constitutional Democratic Party of... Read More
Vendetta on China and Japan in Late 19th Century
•�July 25, 2019
•�3,400 Words •�142 Comments
Some comments are so good that shouldn't be allowed to sink in remote discussions threads. Commenter Vendetta writes on China vs. Japan in the late 19th century: *** The British did not provide any of this assistance for free. Japan had to pay for every weapon and every warship supplied by British yards. Its ability... Read More
96% of Kuril Islanders Oppose Joining Japan
•�February 21, 2019
•�400 Words •�29 Comments
I have already mentioned that there is virtually zero popular support for handing over the Kurils to Japan, so current hopes (and histrionics) on this topic are almost certainly nothing but hot air. I wouldn't even be making this post if not for a new development in this saga - the appearance of concrete numbers... Read More
The Japanese Need to Praise Atom
•�February 19, 2019
•�700 Words •�37 Comments
Well, so do we all, but the Japanese in particular. Shizuyo Sutou (2018): Low-dose radiation from A-bombs elongated lifespan and reduced cancer mortality relative to un-irradiated individuals The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) presented the linear no-threshold hypothesis (LNT) in 1956, which indicates that the lowest doses of ionizing radiation are hazardous in proportion... Read More
The Samurai Fears the Burger
•�January 28, 2019
•�400 Words •�167 Comments
The dawn of Russia's era of mass restaurant outings - which began in the early 2000s, in line with an unprecedented expansion in Russian personal prosperity - was dominated by sushi. But when I returned in 2016, it was already clear that era was in decline. Sure, there were - and are - still plenty... Read More
Kurils Poll
•�January 27, 2019
•�500 Words •�140 Comments
I wrote why giving away the Kurils (even just two of the islands) to Japan in exchange for fuzzy and unenforceable investment commitments is a really bad idea back in 2010 and I see no cause to change any of that. One big problem, then as now, is that ordinary Russians are against it. The... Read More
Thank You Uncle Sam for Nuking the Japs
•�August 6, 2018
•�500 Words •�159 Comments
The nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is honestly one of the single most effectively altruistic actions in all of human history. By helping persuade the Japanese to surrender (they were open to doing that with preconditions, but that was hilariously at odds with the military balance by mid-1945), the Americans helped make the world a... Read More
Rationalizing University Education
•�September 29, 2015
•�800 Words •�11 Comments
Recent news of the Japanese government directing its public universities to stop offering social sciences and humanities courses raises some pretty important questions over the future of higher education in the age of fiscal deficits, automation, and e-learning ahead. An entirely predictable debate followed, with skeptical conservatives (and I daresay most Unz readers) saying good... Read More
The Race to Collapse
•�November 25, 2011
•�1,900 Words •�79 Comments
As readers of this blog know, I have long regarded the return of economic crisis as an inevitability (because the core energy and no-growth predicament facing the Western world wasn't solved in 2008-9 but merely kicked further down the road by increasing debt and printing money). It looks like 2012 will be the crunch year,... Read More
The Power of Contingency: Why China Didn't Rule the World
•�July 30, 2011
•�3,400 Words •�71 Comments
Pomeranz, Kenneth – The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (2001) Category: economy, history, world systems; Rating: 5*/5 Summary: Brad DeLong's review; The Bactra Review; Are Coal and Colonies Really Crucial? It's a rare book that not only vastly informs you on a particular issue, but in so doing... Read More
A Response to Vadim Nikitin's Arguments for the "Liberation" of Khodorkovsky and the Kuriles
•�November 5, 2010
•�3,600 Words •�17 Comments
Over at his Foreign Policy Russia blog, and (provocatively?) a few days before Russia's Unity Day, Vadim Nikitin penned the post Khodorkovsky = Kurils in which he argued for their mutual liberation from the Russian state. Whereas in their time both the conquest of the Kurils and the destruction of robber oligarch Khodorkovsky had been... Read More
Why Russia and China Won't Fight
•�October 17, 2010
•�1,500 Words •�50 Comments
Every so often there appear claims, not only in the Western press but the Russian one, that (rising but overpopulated) China is destined to fight an (ailing and creaking) Russia for possession of its resources in the Far East*. For reasons that should be obvious, this is almost completely implausible for the next few decades.... Read More
Everyone Is Still Underestimating China
•�August 18, 2010
•�1,500 Words •�25 Comments
There's been lots of fanfare over China's GDP overtaking Japan's in Q2 2010 (coming hard on the heels of a big ruckus over its DF-21 "carrier killing" ballistic missile and rising tensions with the US over North Korea and the South China Sea). The big debate is now whether China will overtake the US as... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.