WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE? Feb. 24 2022. A watershed moment in history , modern and future consequences indeed. Changed the post World War 2 world that existed for about 80 years , that war that is still raging on about 2 years later as I write this. Well, a few hundred miles south of Abkhazia, Sochi Russia and Crimea on the Black Sea I was with my partner in crime and some amazingly friendly stray dogs at an ancient archaeological site, few have seen, and I had the grounds all to myself. TIME TRAVELING. Another obscure Roman ruin. I FIND THEM! Lazica region of Western Georgia. The Lazic people are a unique ethnicity with their own language in the nation of the Republic of Georgia. Former Soviet Union lands. The Russian Empire the Soviets, and some French archaeologists were the ones to first document the site over decades of work and it is still a work in progress for visitors to safely explore one day. On a crystalline light blue river of snow melt water, it was an abnormally warm day in late February. A day of WAR! Well, this place, saw a lot of war in its around 1,500 year settlement from about 900 BC to 600 AD. From attacks by the ancient Achemednind Persians against the Colchis people, the Pompey Roman attack during the Mythridaic Wars taking the city from Pontus Kingdom, to Justinaian's General Belasurus Byzantine army defending it from the Sassanid Persians Archeaopolis ancient city, ROMAN CITY, Byzantine city, Colchis city. A day that will live in infamy and I will always remember. Feb 7 2024, Tucker Carlson made a recent video from Russia about his upcoming interview with Vladimir Putin that inspired me to release this LOST TAPE You know what, MY EXPERIENCES ARE UNPARRALED WITH ANYONE I CAN THINK OF. I should be someone like Tucker Carlson, Andreson Cooper, Bear Grylls, Hunter S Thompson... or war reporters. Mulder from the X Files, Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad, Indiana Jones, I am out here man on my own doing these things. . No outside support. Tooting my own horn a bit, but who cares, I am the MAN! Nobody is doing the things IO do. Days before this Russian helicopters were flying obver my head and the day after this Georgian mercenaries headed to Ukraine were trying to recruit me to go with them. Good times! A few weeks later I moved on to Armenia and cut my planned year in Georgia short. And Dec 2021, I COULD HAVE GONE TO UKRAINE! I narrowed it down to either stay in Ukraine or Georgia to start out 2022, I chose Georgia, what a stroke of luck. After a 6 hour explore, film, climbing up mountains, and getting all this content we found nearby restaurant, drank some lethal local homemade cha cha liquor and a large beer. I remember the nice family working there had terror in their eyes as memories of the 2008 war with Russia vs Georgia was fresh in their mind. They probably thought Russia would attack them also, we were not from the border of the Russian Federation. And they thought, WHAT IN THE HELL ARE THESE 2 AMERICANS RANDOMLY DOING HERE!? Well, there we were. We took a local gyspsy bus back to our home base in Kutaisi ate massive cheeseburgers and listened to live punk rock music into the night. As history unfolded. The next morning I began a workout routine just in case something went down I wanted to get in pretty top notch shape, so I exercised daily after this day for a few weeks. I remember I listen to the Dogg Pound 1995 album Dog Food album during these workout, get me in the right mindstate, like a Los Angeles gangbanger, “YOU DON“T WANNA FUCK WITH ME, A REAL OG“. An incredible day. I will write my research in the comments.
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