Posted on 10/04/2025 10:01:10 AM PDT by McGruff
Georgian police used pepper spray and water cannon to force protesters away from the presidential palace in the capital Tbilisi on Saturday, amid a large demonstration on the day of municipal elections, a Reuters witness said.
A group of protesters attempted to force entry to the presidential palace, after some opposition figures called for a "peaceful revolution" against the incumbent Georgian Dream party, which they accuse of being pro-Russian and authoritarian.
The country's pro-Western opposition has been staging protests since last year, when Georgian Dream won an election that its critics say was fraudulent.
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Fixed it.
By Reuters
April 1, 2008
U.S. President George W. Bush vowed on Tuesday to press for Ukraine and Georgia to be allowed to start the process of joining NATO despite resistance from Russia and scepticism from the alliance's European members.
Bush, in Kiev on his way to his farewell NATO summit in Romania, said Moscow had no right to veto bids by the two ex-Soviet states. There was no link between their ambitions and a planned U.S. missile defence system in Europe, he added.
The need for NATO ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, but bureaucracies never die, they simply morph and metastasize.
It’s curious how people who write for such a prestigious publication cannot seem to find the correct words to describe the situation.
A “group” of “protesters” storming a government building that requires water cannon and tear gas to dissuade them is a mob - a riot. This is the same twaddle we see here where our news orgs term them “mostly peaceful” etc.
they have the right tool, water cannons, we need to use them as well. It will disperse the rowdies and clean up the streets at the same time.
If Russia moves into Georgia, don’t expect the Turks to sit idly by.
Irakli Kobakhidze, Prime Minister of Georgia and member of the Georgian Dream Party, calls out the EU ambassador for his role in the violent protests.
Victoria Nuland wasn't available?
"The country's pro-Western opposition has been staging protests since last year"
Good, but no way for NATO nor USA being able to do much in military terms - note to Bush (not listening then, nor since then).
Russia learning to not be a ham-fisted ogre, is in the hands of future generations - over there.
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