Unfortunately Martin's world is poorly constructed, and the societies of Essos & Sothoryos make even less sense than the worst parts of Westeros' worldbuilding. The Dothraki for example, with their insistence on fighting unarmored and charging headlong into enemy formations over & over as their primary tactic (most infamously doing that eighteen times against an Unsullied phalanx, resulting in their crushing defeat even though they outnumbered those Unsullied like 8:1), should not realistically pose a threat to any enemy past the Stone Age.
Also, GRRM has been catching increasingly vitriolic attacks for 'orientalism' over the years thanks to how he depicts Essos/Sothoryos as, bluntly, a jumble of the most negative Victorian Era stereotypes of peoples like the Mongols & ancient Carthaginians than anything remotely accurate or sensible, when he isn't just writing a big question mark over them and declaring them to be a mysterious land that nobody sane would want to explore (Asshai, Sothoryos). I don't like it either (because it's shit worldbuilding) but I wouldn't call him a fascist over it as SJWs have and I can imagine why he wouldn't want to show, say, the Ghiscari in all their harpy-haired, stilt-walking, puppy-eating glory these days. Man almost certainly doesn't have it in him to muster up even the slightest response to the hate he'd get for it.
Unfortunately Martin's world is poorly constructed, and the societies of Essos & Sothoryos make even less sense than the worst parts of Westeros' worldbuilding. The Dothraki for example, with their insistence on fighting unarmored and charging headlong into enemy formations over & over as their primary tactic (most infamously doing that eighteen times against an Unsullied phalanx, resulting in their crushing defeat even though they outnumbered those Unsullied like 8:1), should not realistically pose a threat to any enemy past the Stone Age.
Also, GRRM has been catching increasingly vitriolic attacks for 'orientalism' over the years thanks to how he depicts Essos/Sothoryos as, bluntly, a jumble of the most negative Victorian Era stereotypes of peoples like the Mongols & ancient Carthaginians than anything remotely accurate or sensible, when he isn't just writing a big question mark over them and declaring them to be a mysterious land that nobody sane would want to explore (Asshai, Sothoryos). I don't like it either (because it's shit worldbuilding) but I wouldn't call him a fascist over it as SJWs have and I can imagine why he wouldn't want to show, say, the Ghiscari in all their harpy-haired, stilt-walking, puppy-eating glory these days. Man almost certainly doesn't have it in him to muster up even the slightest response to the hate he'd get for it.