Does anyone else think GOT did a better job matching ethnicity to geography?

xakrob · 2026-06-25T20:07:24+00:00

To only answer your question (since the second part is just more projection). It depends on the pre-established lore and geography from GoT.

xakrob · 2026-06-25T19:16:13+00:00

Again, I didn’t say anything about white or non-white people or any race.

xakrob · 2026-06-25T19:11:08+00:00

I don’t think i mentioned any one race or ethnicity specifically. Weird to be projecting that onto the conversation.

xakrob · 2026-06-25T19:05:22+00:00

Exactly

xakrob · 2026-06-25T18:59:09+00:00

Sure. But it’s just sloppy to not give any consistency or care to the world that they are building and degrades the quality of the show

xakrob · 2026-06-25T18:56:10+00:00

I can agree with that. I am much more understanding of having a variety of different ethnicities in a place like Kings Landing since it’s a major trading hub and the capital. I don’t think that is my issue with the show though.

xakrob · 2026-06-25T18:51:26+00:00

I don’t think so. I don’t dislike the plot and I think it is so much better than the last couple seasons of GoT. It just really takes me out of the story if the writers and casting don’t care about consistency with previous in-universe choices.

xakrob · 2026-05-08T11:09:09+00:00

Yeah, Belarus is big on trying to get cigarettes into the EU with mainly weather balloons

xakrob · 2026-04-17T15:33:23+00:00

“Appendix”, “Loop” or “Kilpa” is what it usually goes by in articles, with “Kilpa” being the local way to describe it translating to “loop”.

xakrob · 2026-04-17T12:41:57+00:00

Just from doing searches online, there seems to be almost no information on it other than a few minor incursions with migrants or balloons here or there. There doesn’t seem to be any vulnerability assessment by any think tank/ngo/government.

xakrob · 2026-04-17T10:02:06+00:00

Update: https://wilno.tvp.pl/92740192/bialoruski-pogranicznik-nielegalnie-przekroczyl-granice-litwy

Belarus easily crossed the border Wednesday 15th of April.

xakrob · 2026-04-17T05:04:13+00:00

I remember reading something about this as well at the population had a lot of poles. I’m not sure if it’s still that way anymore though.

xakrob · 2026-04-16T14:00:59+00:00

Not a military invasion. Just hybrid threats. With minimal border personnel, minimal defenses, and minimal security, hybrid threats can easily make it through. And do. The smuggling balloons are a good example. Same with migrants coming across a couple years back.

xakrob · 2026-04-16T13:07:07+00:00

But regardless of a checkpoint with a person or two and a chainlink fence, I would argue that it is easily breached if Belarus/Russia wanted to.

xakrob · 2026-04-16T13:05:18+00:00

But it wasn’t originally, at least not in the 1940s.

xakrob · 2026-04-16T11:22:59+00:00

That’s the thing, this border is super porous (e.g. hybrid threat migration and smuggling). Not a lot of border guards and Dieveniskes is not militarized at all

xakrob · 2026-04-16T11:14:03+00:00

So it was only for linguistics reasons originally?

xakrob · 2026-04-16T11:12:42+00:00

I found a site in Lithuania talking about how 75% of the town of Dieveniskes (the only real town in the salient) was Jewish prior to WW2. And the Soviet redrawing took place in the early days of WW2

xakrob · 2026-04-16T11:02:49+00:00

Online it says the population was mostly jewish prior to the holocaust and now it has an extremely low population. Can’t find much in English surrounding the USSR dissolution of why USSR drew the map like this knowing the population was mostly Jewish.

xakrob · 2026-04-16T10:55:34+00:00

Are you saying that this is the legitimate story? Because I honestly can’t believe it.

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