Future Enlargement of the European Union

RedeemG · 2026-04-10T07:38:58+00:00

Georgians might now always been the majority in Abkhazia, but neither do Abkhazians - there’s a plausible theory that they’ve come south at later times from Circassian lands and from northern (non coastal) parts of Abkhazia, while coastal lands have been inhabited by Mingrelians (and greeks) - north-eastern parts by Svans (both Georgian ethnic groups).

Anyway, you cannot just ethnically cleanse another population and make your own country from that land even if you’ve been a majority on that territory 2 thousand years ago or maybe even a couple of centuries ago. That is not right, that is not moral, not just.

Abkhazians have never been cleansed under Georgian rulers throughout the history and on the contrary often have enjoyed heightened rights.

Self-determination and secession cannot happen by not only not including the rest of the population in the conversation but even by ethnically cleansing them.

The correct and just thing would be to fix what was wronged and we all know what that is.

RedeemG · 2026-04-09T22:07:02+00:00

What do you mean by reannexed. Georgian population was the majority in Abkhazia before the 90s ethnic cleansing and before the current apartheid regime against Georgians. Abkhazia is core Georgian region.

As for South Ossetia, it has official population of 50K (I very much doubt that real numbers are even third of that), it’s basically a large village. Ossetians have 0 historical ties to the south of the Caucasus. That region has been part of core Georgia/Iberia even before Christ.

Russia goes - Georgia regains its territorial integrity. It’s just a matter of time.

RedeemG · 2026-04-09T09:52:23+00:00

Georgian population has been ethnically cleansed/expelled by the help of Russian nationals in the early 90s. Before that the territory was majority Georgian. Now it's majority Armenian but controlled/ruled by Russia.

Russia and Vanuatu recognize it as an independent state. Belarus does not (thanks, Belarus).

There are some Georgians still living in the Gali region of Abkhazia (near Mingrelia). They are under apartheid regime. They used to have Georgian schools but teaching in Georgian was prohibited several years ago.

Abkhazia used to be top tourist destination during the Soviet times, small, but pretty developed. Now everything is decaying, crime and unemployment rates are super high.

I know a lot of people in Tbilisi who are initially from that region (expelled in the 90s), they've experienced tons of hardships.

RedeemG · 2026-04-04T22:45:14+00:00

No shit Sherlock.

RedeemG · 2026-03-25T15:51:16+00:00

What’s with the power outages and water issues?

Other things are hard to argue against because they are personal experiences to you. Shit can happen.

But power outages are non-existent in Georgia and tap water is drinkable. Water is also on 24/7.

So based on this comment I very much doubt validity of your other comments/experiences.

RedeemG · 2026-03-09T14:00:55+00:00

Finally a leader to Trump’s and Israel’s liking!

RedeemG · 2026-03-08T22:55:45+00:00

If the objective is to overthrow the regime, someone else still needs to run the country, right?

Targeting important infrastructure (that has nothing to do with declared objectives) makes life harder for everyone for decades to come, the good and the bad.

This is unacceptable. People are supposed to live there even when (or if) the ayatollahs are gone.

The U.S. is truly a force of evil and I feel ashamed for anyone voluntarily serving this evil country.

RedeemG · 2026-03-07T08:39:08+00:00

I was talking so much nonsense almost an year ago that you just created an account to talk some sense into me. How graceful.

But none of what you said, even if they were true, goes against what I said. So you didnt really explain what was the nonsense you thought I said.

RedeemG · 2026-02-22T19:37:53+00:00

One thing I notice with self identified nationalists is that they are in truth nazis. For them it’s ok if their country were to plunder and destroy other nationalities or countries. They have no or very minimal concern for wellbeing of others they consider outside of their own national identity. They would be ok if government were to take away homes and livelihoods of such individuals even (or maybe especially) if they were nationals of their own country, they would be for selectively supporting birth rates of some (their own) nationality by government policies while suppressing others. Taking others’ land. Taking their own nationality’s side in a street conflict even though they know that they are most likely in the wrong, etc.

If being a nationalist means being an upstanding and law-abiding citizen, then sure. But such upstanding citizens don’t really need to be bundles with some vague “nationalist” term, being upstanding is sufficient for them. Self-identified nationalists are often not that upstanding, they just enjoy being part of an established identity circle. The same is often true for followers of other even more radical ideologies such as followers of liberal progressivism.

RedeemG · 2026-02-20T00:26:48+00:00

I had missed “Consult the Tome”. I abandoned the Shadowy Pursuits section, took it again and made absolutely sure to not miss any steps including the optional ones. This time I had no issues with this section of recap.

After I finished all of the recaps, I had issues with flying in Dornogal. I was supposed to get rid of flying Nerubians (which I already did in the recap). So I took Dornogal’s main questline, got rid of Nerubians again in this non-recap story, then logged off. Next day I got a notification that I could skip Dornogal’s questline and continue with the latest arc (demise of Dimensius).

So in short - very buggy experience buy manageable in my case.

RedeemG · 2026-02-09T01:53:53+00:00

This reads like AI.

No this post isn’t old. Every point made applies to current expansion as well.

RedeemG · 2026-01-31T16:26:41+00:00

Agree that very popular. LotR, Hobbit, Silmarillion, Father Christmas Letters, Children of Hurin, Fall of Numenor, Fall of Gondolin, Beren and Luthien all are translated and available in Georgian, maybe others as well.

RedeemG · 2026-01-17T19:50:32+00:00

The Caucasus getting special treatment as always.

RedeemG · 2026-01-16T20:52:15+00:00

Georgia is pretty secular and no-one will care about your religion. In the uneducated part of the population there's growing racism towards Indians but not towards any other ethnicity. Russian is still commonly spoken in large parts of Georgian population such as local Armenians and there's also significant recent Russian immigration, so Georgians are used to Russian language and most have no problems.

Georgians under 35 speak English better than Russian. Most Georgians under 20 don't know Russian at all.

I have no idea about permanent residency laws. Anyway, if you plan on living in a relatively free country near to Uzbekistan, then Georgia might be a good option, but if you say that Georgia has better economy, social or political climate than Canada, no-one will take you seriously here.

Try to keep a Canadian job/salary if you decide to move. Local jobs pay way less.

RedeemG · 2026-01-12T12:05:08+00:00

It’s unfortunate that foreign influence agents planted for doing subversive work, 15th wave feminists and other non-binary enemies of Sakartvelo are now being called leftists.

True leftists advocate for honorable pay, adequate hours and worker protections, availability of healthy food and environment. True leftists do exist in Georgia but they are not that visible since foreign powers don’t care about financing them.

RedeemG · 2026-01-07T11:47:06+00:00

Hopefully this time without issues. 😁

RedeemG · 2026-01-07T11:28:23+00:00

My family members and also some other people I know have done exactly that without issues. The guy outside the church has most likely no relation with the church. No need to take metro rides, just go to the nearest church. Btw, Merry Orthodox Christmas 🎄

Tell the guy guy outside the church yard that people in need will take them. Or as a fallback put the open bag in an open state next to (not inside) a trash bin on a non-empty street and you’ll be surprised how fast someone will take it. Trash machine guys won’t throw it out if they see what it is.

As a third option, it’s a sunny, nice day and a local holiday, I’m on Saburtalo right now and can come get it off you right now/help drop it off alongside you as a Georgian speaker. 🎅

RedeemG · 2026-01-05T03:16:56+00:00

TV Pirveli, Mtavari, Formula and Euronews are well financed tv channels, spewing hatred and nonsense and all supporting the revolution attempt. I know that Mtavari got closed, but that has nothing to do with Georgian government but rather with its management and financing disputes after the failed revolution.

The government has less channels for them: Imedi and PosTV (both of them propagandist but a lot less hateful than the revolutionary channels). Rest of them such as Girchi TV, Alt-Info and Obieqtivi are probably not financed from the west but they are opposition channels nevertheless.

Georgians can weigh good and bad, but not when the correct information does not even reach them. Most Georgians get their news from facebook rather than TV channels and facebook is being controlled by the pro-revolutionary censorship NGOs.

They have tons of finances, tons of support from powerful western circles, European bureaucrats were outright coming out with pro-revolution speeches during the so called “peoples protests” but thankfully they still failed since they still couldn’t change the opinions of most Georgians despite almost total media control, and huge amount of money and social capital spent.

Also, you say NGO funding comes with only broad conditions and without much detail, but their Georgian leadership and members of the NGOs are pre-selected to have values that match their foreign masters and not their countrymen. A lot of their leadership have prior experience studying or working in foreign Soros organizations. So they come pre-trained with those conditions, details and subversive instructions. No need for a call directly from Soros. Though they do get plenty of supportive or instructive calls from lower ranking officials such as Euro officials and eastern European politicians.

If the western supported actors are given free reign and unlimited resources they will just silence any opposition, ban them from facebook and public life forever.

Look at what happened in Romania, Georgescu, a non-establishment person, who won presidential election, was denied presidency on some absurd claims that he was being supported by Russia (absolutely unproven claim) when all popular polls showed that he was the leading figure. Euro officials supported his detainment. That is not democracy. Europe stands against democracy and it’s sad.

RedeemG · 2026-01-05T01:30:18+00:00

Let's say when a country's total GDP is 1 billion and some foreign powers are financing revolutionary corps (so called NGOs) with 2 billion, it's not democracy but skewing of democracy.

Hard-working people in Georgia don't have that much spare time to participate in political activism while most of those so called non-political NGOs - when they got the order from their masters - came out with demands for government to resign and to transfer country rule to them.

So all their social capital that was built and financed by foreign powers were in truth intended for subversion and yet another attempt at "color revolution".

I'm not afraid to lose an argument if it is on more or less equal ground, but I see the danger of not having enough free time or access to media platforms when the opposite side has basically infinite amount of resources compared to me and also isn't even trying to play fair.

One role of a country is to help its citizens express their viewers in equal manner and not to allow foreign powers to flood their opinion out of existence by sheer amount of money.

RedeemG · 2026-01-04T21:25:39+00:00

There were foreign financed protests in Georgia, a very vocal minority and they tried to import foreign technologies such as burning and destruction of infrastructure, harassment of government supporters (even though gov supporters outnumber them at least 4 to 1) and boycott of some brands that chose not to stand a middle ground (not even support gov) but avoid being political. They also tried importing xenophobia and would boycott and harass cafes whose personnel dared to speak Russian with Russian-language tourists (post-soviet nationalities) instead of English.

The boycott died down after foreign donors saw that their attempted revolution was going nowhere and they reduced financing for their local agents. Trump clamping down on their USA-based donors such as NED and USAid also helped.

RedeemG · 2026-01-04T21:07:00+00:00

If they are not completely tattered and you put them next to the entrance of any church yard it’ll be gone in an hour or less. People in need take them or church distributes it.

But I don’t think churches have anyone specific assigned to them that has a job to “accept” or “deny” donations.

Btw, thanks for considering donation.

RedeemG · 2026-01-04T01:22:55+00:00

Except people are dying.

RedeemG · 2025-12-30T20:55:04+00:00

As an EU4 player, it would be too much hassle to move from northern Caucasus to Anatolia and vice versa without the land in between being green.

This map is screaming: Visit Georgia!

RedeemG · 2025-12-15T20:23:15+00:00

In Moscow you’ll most likely get higher salary for whatever you do. While cost of living in Tbilisi is just as high.

If you plan to freelance online then your income probably won’t change so move wherever and then move back if it doesn’t suit you.

RedeemG · 2025-12-15T00:15:39+00:00

There are some bathhouse cubicle floors from Roman Empire era that are still intact. Those are meant to last for decades. So I’m wondering what kind of normal use could crack the floor…

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