EU does not want a member state in Georgia, it wants a client state

Brussels Signal ^ | 12/6/24 | Anthony J. Constantini

[EnderWiggin1970]

If you would hear it from the liberal internationalists, the battle for the future of democracy is being fought in Tbilisi. There, protestors are facing off with – in Brussels’ telling – a pro-Kremlin gang eager to drag Georgia into Russia’s orbit. The European Union, it claims, is supportive of Georgia taking a democratic path.

But Brussels does not want a democracy – it wants a client state.

How did we get here? It started when the Georgian government (now opposition) blundered into a major war with Russia, back in 2008. Georgia lost that war, and the government was resoundingly sent into opposition in the 2012 parliamentary elections. The winners, the Georgia Dream, wanted a more conciliatory approach with Russia. While not “pro-Russian,” they did not deem it in the national interest to get into wars with neighbouring countries which were 245 times their size.

Georgia Dream then won the following parliamentary elections in 2016 and in 2020. But in 2020, the opposition – still fractured – claimed fraud, and organized mass protests. Eventually, Georgia Dream came to a European Union-backed deal: if the Georgia Dream got at least 43 percent of the vote in 2021’s local elections – which they did, garnering just over 46 percent — the elections were fair. EU observers said that “democratic values and freedoms were generally respected.”

[EnderWiggin1970]

Anyone spotted Victoria Nuland's whereabouts lately?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Nuland's not the only neo-lib who worked/works to undermine local elections. One reads: Samantha Power, Team USA and The EU Fight Back in Tbilisi, Georgia Sundance, 29 November 2024.

[BobL]

“Samantha Power, Team USA and The EU Fight Back in Tbilisi, Georgia”

EXACTLY the same kind of crap that has turned Ukraine into a wasteland. I guess one has to ask the simple question: Why the hell do the Democrats (and RINOs) want to see all of these countries destroyed? What have they done to the US to deserve this treatment?

[GreenLanternCorps]

The EU sucks, but it sucks considerably less than domination by Russia.

The idea that Georgians, who have had the Russians chop off two chunks of their country already are only protesting because of “globalists” is both ridiculous and ignorant. The Georgians have good reasons to hate Russia all by themselves.

[wildcard_redneck]

Why is that so many of the old Freepers are Bush Crime Family neocons?

[GreenLanternCorps]

So rather than address the merits of my post, you post baseless insults?

The fact remains that Georgians don’t like Russians or their puppets.

Party like it’s 1776 Georgia.

[billakay]

Did we forget that the Georgians fired the first shots against Russia in 2008? This is well documented by independent sources, but was conveniently hidden by US media.

I like Georgia and Georgians, but in 2008 their government FAFOed. That's why they lost those chunks of their country.