Georgia On Her Mind
Fresh from attempting to foment a color revolution in Hungary, Samantha Power has Georgia on her mind. This is nothing new. Back in 2003 the US backed the “Rose Revolution” in Georgia that installed an anti-Russian government in Tbilisi. This was part of the long term Neocon strategy of Extending Russia, placing geopolitical strains on Russia to eventually cause a political collapse in Moscow—regime change and submission to the US dominated collective West. This strategy is no secret and was outlined in detail in the Rand report of the same name, linked just above. Rand refers to “Georgia” 57 times in that report, which includes an entire chapter that explains just about every geopolitical move the US is making—it’s a virtual roadmap. The strategy has nothing per se to do with “freedom” but everything to do with causing the breakup of Russia. Please note the references to two areas in which attempted “color” revolutions our coups preceded the outbreak of war on Russia—Belarus and “Central Asia”, i.e., Kazakhstan. Note, too, the Measure devoted to Moldova, where we’ve heard rumblings recently. The claim that Russia’s SMO was “unprovoked” is revealed as a cynical lie:
CHAPTER FOUR
Geopolitical Measures .......................................................... 95
Measure 1: Provide Lethal Aid to Ukraine ................................... 96
Measure 2: Increase Support to the Syrian Rebels .......................... 103
Measure 3: Promote Regime Change in Belarus............................ 109
Measure 4: Exploit Tensions in the South Caucasus........................ 115
Measure 5: Reduce Russian Influence in Central Asia ..................... 121
Measure 6: Challenge Russian Presence in Moldova ....................... 130
Recommendations .............................................................. 135
Georgia, currently being targeted as a new “hot” front in the war on Russia fits under “Exploit Tensions in the South Causcasus.” Note that the framing of that “Measure” makes no pretense of bettering the lives of Georgians—this is about defeating Russia and carving Russia up into digestible bits. That process starts with Poking the Bear. It follows on previous defeat in implementing the same strategy:
The problem is that the first overthrow of Georgia’s government didn’t really stick, and so we’re back at it again.
Rod Dreher provided a nice thumbnail of what’s going on in Georgia yesterday. The introductory portion works for our purposes. The giveaway of what’s going on is that the proposed Georgian law regarding foreign agency is simply about transparency—allowing the citizens to evaluate the influence behind public power players in their country. Guess what? We have a law for that purpose here in the US, where we use it largely for political prosecutions.
Georgia: Whose Country Is It Anyway?
In the country of Georgia, Parliament is considering a bill that would require NGOs that get over 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as foreign agents. The bill passed today, over a threatened presidential veto. There were protests on the streets. And lo, a top Color Revolutionary herself weighed in last week:
Georgia’s proposed foreign agent laws gravely threaten Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic future and the ability of Georgians to fulfill their own economic, social, and other aspirations. I call upon the Georgian Parliament to drop these proposed laws.
— Samantha Power (@PowerUSAID) March 2, 2023
If you follow the link to the news story, you’ll see that the Georgian president opposes the bill because it would hurt European integration. But what business is it of Europe or the US as to whether or not Georgia wants to regulate the activities of foreign-funded NGOs in its own sovereign territory? This bill might not be wise — I don’t know enough about the details to say — but it’s not at all surprising that countries see how Washington and Brussels use soft power through NGOs to manipulate the political processes in those countries, and want to protect themselves from it. I wrote at TAC the other day about how the aptly named Power showed up in Budapest last month to announce a $20 million commitment to fund initiatives in Hungary clearly aimed at undermining the democratically elected government of Viktor Orban.
…
Who defines “the wider public interest in Georgia”? The bill is backed by the majority party in the Georgian parliament, which has enough support to override a presidential veto. Who is more representative of the “wider public interest” there: lawmakers democratically elected by the public, or foreign governments and NGOs? These people think they have the right to go into a country and work to undermine its democratically elected governments, its laws, and its cultural traditions — and anybody who tries to stop it is a stooge of Putin.
Brian Berletic discusses events in Georgia in a 20 minute video:
When spontaneous demonstrations not as violent as those in Georgia occur in the US, we call it an "insurrection". When foreign powers gin up violent demonstrations against a popularly elected government in Georgia, what is that?
"Georgia’s proposed foreign agent laws gravely threaten Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic future and the ability of Georgians to fulfill their own economic, social, and other aspirations. I call upon the Georgian Parliament to drop these proposed laws."
I read this statement and my only thought was Holy Sh*t! Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.