100% chance most officials think it's a desert because arabs
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One time I mentioned to a coworker there's a ski resort in northern Iran and he said, "They have snow there? I thought they were Muslim."
My favourite desert country. Albania.
It's a well known fact that any place a Muslim touches becomes a cartoon desert and anyone doing anything recreational gets killed on the spot /s
I've seen people say the same shit about Afghanistan, WHILE we were actually at war with them.
I met a Canadian couple in Vietnam who expressed surprise at seeing so many Russians there. They said that they didn't think communists had holidays.
To their credit they allowed me to completely rewrite their world view over the course of a couple of weeks. They were alright, just very naïve.
Sid Myer's civilization level understanding of the world.
Yes, the terrain gets generated based on which civ you choose.
And also think Iranians are Arabs.
Because all Muslims are arabs!/s
Honestly I'd kind of assumed it's arid just because of where it's located, but y'know, I'm not an official of a country at war with them. In no way did I realise it extended far enough north to be partly outside the arid band north of the equator.
~don't~ ~tell~ ~my~ ~professors~ ~I~ ~forgot~ ~the~ ~terminology~ ~for~ ~that~ ~I~ ~have~ ~a~ ~degree~ ~in~ ~environmental~ ~science~
80% of Iran is arid or semi-arid in the koppen system, but because of their latitude and mountain ranges they do have a pretty unique weather system consisting of hot arid deserts sitting right next to cold arid deserts. Near the coastlines though it becomes humid subtropical. Iran has a very neat climate I've always liked researching
just learned that the usa is kinda big, thought it was the size of luxemburg
The US has larger land area, but Luxemburg has more people.
Common misconception. There are actually more people in the US but the ones in Luxembourg are bigger so it looks like there's more of them. They're like 12 feet tall over there.
This is also a misconception. Luxembourg has a unique mineral density in their soil that causes light diffraction within the fog to make people look smaller or larger. Furthermore the 12 feet tall thing is just an average. Most luxembourgish people are under 3 feet tall, while a scant few are well over 1000.
There are actually more people in the US
Common misconception, Americans aren't actually people
So Luxembourg is more people per capita?
Ignorance like this should be legal grounds for immediate firing from any job (even if it has nothing to do with the subject of geopolitics)
This is the Greek concept of Amathia made manifest, and it should be considered a social evil and punished accordingly
Lucky for Johannes being a “geopolitical commentator” isn’t a job
There were good crops during the Irish famine it's just they were just exported while allowing the locals to starve.
the full image seems to be fine, but I guess twitter decides to cut off the edges when generating the smaller version of the image to fit in the post?
So I guess you gotta leave a bit of buffer room at the edges of your images when cropping in order to prevent them from being butchered
This man has not learned the immortal science of looking up countries on Google Maps and making basic observations.
Geopolitical, not geographical ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
That’s like not knowing Hawaii is an island
Ummm askcually, it's a chain of islands 
I thought Hawaii is a toast
it's an island?
Wow, I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time.
I for one love Twitter links to Twitter screenshots without any link to the actual tweet. It's how the site was meant to be used
https://x.com/johannesmkx/status/2030121188010209355
thanks for nudging me to find the original tweet, since the guy's full bio is somehow even more hilarious
Metaphysician, geopolitical commentator, author of Revival of the West. Persecuted by the Dutch government.
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the "persecuted by the Dutch government" in question? https://www.jmk.info/about
Though I was acquitted of sedition (risking 5 years in prison), I was sentenced to 40 hours of community service for having insulted one Moroccan-Dutch politician. That politician had called for the destruction of half of all Dutch livestock in 2019 at a national farmers’ protest in The Hague.
metaphysician
Not metaphysicist?
"geopolitical commentator" is somehow less serious than me putting "ceramic sanitation engineer" in my LinkedIn profile for my time as a dishwasher.
Hubris as high as the Zagros Mountains 