Neil Hauer

🔵 The Holy Synod has confirmed Metropolitan Shio as the Patriarchal Locum Tenens – he will lead the Church until a new Patriarch is elected. 🟡 On November 23, 2017, Ilia II appointed Shio Mujiri as co-locum tenens. 🔴 Shio Mujiri is considered the leading candidate among possible future Patriarchs of Georgia. 🔵 He is relatively close to Russia and is seen as a favorable candidate both for Russia and for the "Georgian Dream" party. 🔴 Ilia II supported Georgia's European integration, whereas in this regard, Shio Mujiri's views align with those of the GD.

Reading of '90's Armenia and you enter the subject expect a 'classic' "Nationalist Yerevan leading irredentist war" but in truth its reverse with Karabakh clans taking over Yerevan

A Georgian girl pranked Irakli Zarkua, pretending to be Russian, and then leaked the chat where he was desperately trying to flirt with her. Now the propaganda is threatening me with up to eight years in prison for reposting it. That would honestly be the funniest charge yet.

I just learned that Iran is an extremely mountainous country. If anyone in Tel Aviv or Washington thinks they can beat Iran, they are mentally unwell. It's textbook impossible to defeat a mountainous country because ground troop movements will exhaust the invader. You'll be attacked by guerrillas coming down the hills, killing you all. This is going to be the US Army's Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. You are going to lose this. Mountains are why countries such as mountainous Switzerland also cannot be invaded. To know anything about military strategy, read Von Clausewitz's On War. The German military genius extensively discussed mountains as a 'retarding principle'—mountains slow down military movement. Mountains favor guerilla warfare and make decisive action impossible. Mountains favor the defenders. The invading armies are fighting literal uphill battles. Everyone at the Pentagon has lost their minds. I'm truly stupefied at the lack of functional brains among Western military strategists. What on Earth are you doing? I'm stupefied that anyone thinks the West can defeat Iran. No, you won't. Iran is protected by mountains. It cannot be defeated.

Nakhchivan has always been under-researched despite all its strategic importance. From the mid-1990s until 2010–15, every inch of Nakhchivan was infiltrated by Iranian intelligence networks. Even hotel receptionists would frequently send copies of foreign guests' passports to Iranian handlers, and although the external security of Nakhchivan was guaranteed by Turkey, keeping Armenia away from the enclave, the inside was riddled with an extensive Iranian network. This only changed in the early 2010s when Turkey began engaging in far more active policies in the area and Nakhchivan was pulled out of neglect. After the collapse of the Axis of Resistance, I assumed that Iran would start re-establishing its networks first through Nakhchivan, given its geographical position, while seeking a foothold in the South Caucasus to fill the vacuum left by Russia's withdrawal, likely in direct competition with Turkey. This was another reason why Iran was furious about the Zangezur/Trump corridor. In light of all this, attacking Nakhchivan would be nothing short of suicide for Iran in the region, dealing a catastrophic blow to its image and guaranteeing its inability to return to Nakhchivan for decades to come even if the war stops tonight. "We only attack U.S and infidels bases" is not a valid argument anymore for Iran.

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This makes for extraordinary watching. An Irish keffiyeh-clad man accuses Iranians of being ‘puppets’ when they try to tell him that the Islamic Regime has killed more Iranians than anyone. An Irish woman tells the Iranians to ‘go back to your own country’, which is just astonishing for an Irish ‘refugees welcome’ leftist to say (I suppose that welcome does not extend to refugees who challenge pre-existing biases about the Middle East). She also denies the tens of thousands killed by the Regime in recent weeks, which visibly upsets an Iranian woman.