It seems reasonable to assume that Georgians might take a look at Ukraine, exercise a bit of agency & decide they want nothing to do with Russia. I’m not sure the CIA needs to get involved.
Funny details, though:
A) A rich Russian oligarch who made his money in Putin’s Russia is behind a law.
B) Putin has used the law to crush dissent.
C) Virtually every other former Soviet republic is slipping from Putin’s grasp, even Armenia.
But no, I can’t think of any legitimate reason why Georgians should be upset.
It seems reasonable to assume that Georgians might take a look at Ukraine, exercise a bit of agency & decide they want nothing to do with Russia. I’m not sure the CIA needs to get involved.
Funny details, though:
A) A rich Russian oligarch who made his money in Putin’s Russia is behind a law.
B) Putin has used the law to crush dissent.
C) Virtually every other former Soviet republic is slipping from Putin’s grasp, even Armenia.
But no, I can’t think of any legitimate reason why Georgians should be upset.
Why on earth would someone vote for a man with obvious Russian links after a successful Russian invasion of your country only a handful of years before and after centuries of Russian occupation? I had hoped the article would explore this more. It’d be like Neil Kinnock coming back to Britain from enriching himself via the EU bureaucracy and running for office again, pretending to be a good old boy from the pits.
Why on earth would someone vote for a man with obvious Russian links after a successful Russian invasion of your country only a handful of years before and after centuries of Russian occupation? I had hoped the article would explore this more. It’d be like Neil Kinnock coming back to Britain from enriching himself via the EU bureaucracy and running for office again, pretending to be a good old boy from the pits.
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Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago
careful not to confuse American readers with Georgia, or Austria and its kangaroos…
careful not to confuse American readers with Georgia, or Austria and its kangaroos…
j watson
1 year ago
A painful read for Putin apologists and anti EU advocates.
How much the West can assist these brave people at the moment complicated and not easy. But just shows how fragile these regimes really are and how much ordinary people desire what we have.
j watson
1 year ago
A painful read for Putin apologists and anti EU advocates.
How much the West can assist these brave people at the moment complicated and not easy. But just shows how fragile these regimes really are and how much ordinary people desire what we have.
martin logan
1 year ago
But we’ll soon hear the usual dumbed-down Post-Marxist explanation:
George Soros bankrolled it all–and the CIA distributed the money.
Because, with the death of Marxism, the masses now have no agency. Like Maidan, it’s all controlled by the Puppet Masters.
So, the only legitimate actors are people like Putin.
(Nice to see that the Georgians won, though)
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martin logan
1 year ago
But we’ll soon hear the usual dumbed-down Post-Marxist explanation:
George Soros bankrolled it all–and the CIA distributed the money.
Because, with the death of Marxism, the masses now have no agency. Like Maidan, it’s all controlled by the Puppet Masters.
So, the only legitimate actors are people like Putin.
(Nice to see that the Georgians won, though)
Is Georgia having a Euromaidan moment? I do hope not.
It won’t be pretty, it won’t be legitimate and the CIA will be up to their eyeballs in it even if Victoria Nuland doesn’t visit to hand out bread.
A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War (jacobin.com)
It seems reasonable to assume that Georgians might take a look at Ukraine, exercise a bit of agency & decide they want nothing to do with Russia. I’m not sure the CIA needs to get involved.
Funny details, though:
A) A rich Russian oligarch who made his money in Putin’s Russia is behind a law.
B) Putin has used the law to crush dissent.
C) Virtually every other former Soviet republic is slipping from Putin’s grasp, even Armenia.
But no, I can’t think of any legitimate reason why Georgians should be upset.
It seems reasonable to assume that Georgians might take a look at Ukraine, exercise a bit of agency & decide they want nothing to do with Russia. I’m not sure the CIA needs to get involved.
Funny details, though:
A) A rich Russian oligarch who made his money in Putin’s Russia is behind a law.
B) Putin has used the law to crush dissent.
C) Virtually every other former Soviet republic is slipping from Putin’s grasp, even Armenia.
But no, I can’t think of any legitimate reason why Georgians should be upset.
Is Georgia having a Euromaidan moment? I do hope not.
It won’t be pretty, it won’t be legitimate and the CIA will be up to their eyeballs in it even if Victoria Nuland doesn’t visit to hand out bread.
A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War (jacobin.com)
Why on earth would someone vote for a man with obvious Russian links after a successful Russian invasion of your country only a handful of years before and after centuries of Russian occupation? I had hoped the article would explore this more. It’d be like Neil Kinnock coming back to Britain from enriching himself via the EU bureaucracy and running for office again, pretending to be a good old boy from the pits.
Agreed, a mite suspicious.
Agreed, a mite suspicious.
Why on earth would someone vote for a man with obvious Russian links after a successful Russian invasion of your country only a handful of years before and after centuries of Russian occupation? I had hoped the article would explore this more. It’d be like Neil Kinnock coming back to Britain from enriching himself via the EU bureaucracy and running for office again, pretending to be a good old boy from the pits.
careful not to confuse American readers with Georgia, or Austria and its kangaroos…
Oh, come on…
Oh, come on…
careful not to confuse American readers with Georgia, or Austria and its kangaroos…
A painful read for Putin apologists and anti EU advocates.
How much the West can assist these brave people at the moment complicated and not easy. But just shows how fragile these regimes really are and how much ordinary people desire what we have.
A painful read for Putin apologists and anti EU advocates.
How much the West can assist these brave people at the moment complicated and not easy. But just shows how fragile these regimes really are and how much ordinary people desire what we have.
But we’ll soon hear the usual dumbed-down Post-Marxist explanation:
George Soros bankrolled it all–and the CIA distributed the money.
Because, with the death of Marxism, the masses now have no agency. Like Maidan, it’s all controlled by the Puppet Masters.
So, the only legitimate actors are people like Putin.
(Nice to see that the Georgians won, though)
But we’ll soon hear the usual dumbed-down Post-Marxist explanation:
George Soros bankrolled it all–and the CIA distributed the money.
Because, with the death of Marxism, the masses now have no agency. Like Maidan, it’s all controlled by the Puppet Masters.
So, the only legitimate actors are people like Putin.
(Nice to see that the Georgians won, though)