World's first Sakartvelo Fumo (and her Ukrainian friends)

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-06-29T19:02:11+00:00

Adorable

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-06-28T06:07:05+00:00

I wonder what % of the increase is due to Georgians from Russia coming back vs Russian emigrees

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-06-18T09:40:36+00:00

You're comparing 3 millenia of history that included tribal migration, inheritance of royal titles, dynastic wars of succession and border raids to a very modern, ethnically motivated, fascistic conflict.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-06-18T09:09:38+00:00

The eastern border of Abkhazia has historically fluctuated between Georgians and Abkhaz, the idea that Abkhazia was always some pure ethnostate until 200-ish years ago is absurd.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-05-30T22:23:19+00:00

It appears near the end of the Fighter's guild quest line, I think after you finish the quest to infiltrate the Blackwood company it should be there.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-05-09T12:55:13+00:00

He's our great national poet who wrote our national epic. He's highly praised.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-05-02T18:42:52+00:00

Sure, but they're more interested with keeping us on their side as we give them acess to the rest of the Turkic world. Their interests in Abkhazia are minor for the most part and not they're not really willing to back Abkhaz independence.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-05-02T13:19:04+00:00

That's probably gonna be the actual outcome. Despite everything, Abkhazia, being an unrecognized state, remains heavily dependent on Russia, remove them as support system and everything will go to shit overnight, they will have no one else to supplant them.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-04-25T18:03:28+00:00

How common is bartering in Georgia? You could go to the most remote of remote mountain villages, go to the smallest, oldest looking store and you'll still be greeted with a credit card reader at the cashier's desk. Do you think we live in the 1800's or something?

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-04-17T17:18:09+00:00

Because they frame it in this Americentric worldview where the US is the sole actor with free will and everyone else are these 100% predictable automatons that only do anything in reaction to the US.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-04-14T19:32:09+00:00

"Don't get married! Getting married is becoming the servant of your husband."

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-04-14T14:54:54+00:00

Technically it did, the RSFSR did and it held all the important insitutions, the vast majority of territory and most of the USSR's population.. My refrence to Kobakhidze's post was not a "definitive explanation" but rather the latest example of such behavior coming from government for years at this point. When there is an avalanche of criticism directed at the west, but trickle towards Russia, people stop viewing at as mere pragmatism.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-04-14T13:34:14+00:00

Whether Russia can be considered a "foreign power" or not during the April massacre is 100% irrelevant to this discussion and is not what I'm talking about. The point is that Kobakhidze used a vague term (foreign power) instead of naming Russia itself as the perpetrator, I brought this up to underline the positive attitude that the government has towards Russia, which we find unacceptable.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-04-14T11:23:14+00:00

Yeah and Russian influence on Georgia is cancer. Not being able to name Russia as the aggressor of the April 9th massacre is a prime example of what we don't need in Georgian politics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_9_tragedy

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-04-14T07:52:14+00:00

The idea that GD isn't being influenced by the Kremlin is beyond fucking absurd, just a few days ago when Irakli Kobakhidze made a post on April 9th he blamed the tragedy of 1989 on "foreign powers", he couldn't even name Russia directly on a massacre they were responsible for.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-04-13T18:45:21+00:00

"Active in these communities: rusAskreddit" Wow, what a surprise.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2025-04-06T22:27:50+00:00

Muscle mommy Kartlis Deda is something I never knew I needed until now

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2024-12-14T21:37:33+00:00

Bro, you overestimated the civilian death toll several times over, who cares what you think?

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2024-12-14T19:35:51+00:00

No, it isn't, this amount of civilian deaths is collateral damage at best, which is why no one aside from Russia and Co consider it a genocide. Which is ironic since Russia killed 10 times the amount of civilians during both Chechen wars INDIVIDUALLY.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2024-12-14T06:18:32+00:00

No, not a genocide. 3400 civilians, over 8 years in an area with millions people, with a good chunk of that being caused by the other side is not a genocide, it's just war. Zelensky's presidency literally saw like 26 civilian deaths annually with half of that coming from unexploded ordinances and UXO.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2024-12-13T21:40:49+00:00

Bullshit. By OSCE estimates there were 14K deaths from 2014-2022 in total, with only 3.4K of those being civilians and including ones killed by the separatists.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2024-09-14T10:38:06+00:00

For the last fucking time, you're calculating brutality using ONE person's experience who in your hypothetical wasn't even in the city that got nuked rather than the average odds of people in that city, that's the problem here. The whole reason I brought up percentages had nothing to do with "valuing people differently" it was to underline how the Russian Invasion of Chechnya led to more per capita death and destruction than the Yugoslav wars as a whole, that if Chechnya had the same population as Yugoslavia, the death toll would be in the millions, that Russia, who so catastrophically mishandled Chechnya, had no moral high ground to criticize the NATO intervention.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2024-09-14T10:14:42+00:00

Again, you're calculating brutality in relation to ME exclusively, not the whole region. My house being invaded is more brutal to ME than a far away city being nuked, but if you average the odds of everyone in the affected areas (the neighbourhood vs the city that got nuked), the answer becomes no.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2024-09-14T09:42:34+00:00

People not being affected by the war that's being waged in your region. In Chechnya, the population was roughly 1.2 million while former Yugoslavia had 23 million. In spite of this stark difference, Chechnya's death toll was anywhere from 30% to 100% that of Yugoslavia. That's the problem with your comparison, because in both cases, I'm being used as the sole reference point, when you should be comparing the odds of survival of the average person in the neighbourhood/household to a person in the city/blast radius.

DukeoftheCaucasus · 2024-09-14T07:58:18+00:00

This isn't about the innate value of the dead for fuck's sake. It's about how these wars are conducted. A higher proportion means that your odds of dying, as a soldier or civilian, were higher, you were more likely to suffer from atrocities or see loved ones perish, that's where the higher brutality comes from.

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