By Sonja Van den Ende*
Georgia’s latest protests against the anti-Foreign Agent law mainly youth protesting, because they are ignorant and many are influenced by US and EU organizations
You can already see it in the main photo, the majority of the demonstrators who are in favour of Europe and NATO (and the US) are young people, students often bought by indeed “Foreign Agent organizations” that have been widely represented in the country since the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili. Organizations like US Aid, who writes on their website how they operate.
On the Black Sea and bordered by Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, Georgia is a key US ally in the South Caucasus region and an important transit corridor for energy resources from the Caspian Sea to Europe and beyond. USAID partners with Georgia’s government and people to strengthen the country’s security, prosperity, and democratic institutions, and help advance its Euro-Atlantic integration”.
The EU is also, of course, deeply anchored in Georgia since the “Rose Revolution”. The EU focuses mainly on the youth, as I said, they are the easiest to influence and are lured with money, jobs and studying in the EU. Of course, they don’t know much about the total chaos that reigns there, they aren’t really told that.
These organizations have an aggressive campaign and exercise so-called ‘soft power’, lobbying at universities and colleges, promising students ‘freedom’, whatever that is, good prospects and studies in the US, UK and EU. They lure them with money and empty promises. After all, these young students do not know that the EU in particular is on the brink of bankruptcy and the US is in the same state of chaos, with homeless people and poverty.
A while ago Alex Soros (the son of) George Soros announced that the focus of the Open Society Foundation will be renewed and the focus will no longer be on Europe but other areas, including of course Georgia. Some argued that it’s the end of the Soros empire, which I doubt.
Alex Soros, in the US, said: “The Open Society Foundations is changing the way we work, but my family and OSF have long supported, and remain steadfastly committed to the European project.” The Coalition of 12 CSOs, led by the Civil Society Foundation (formerly the Open Society Georgia Foundation), has prepared the first midterm report – “EU Accession Check 1.0”, which assesses what the Georgian Government has done from November of 2023 to date in terms of implementing the nine steps to achieve the opening of negotiations on accession to the EU”.
In particular, it is also the camp of Mikheil Saakashvili who is present at the protests ( the elderly – supporters of him), he carried out the so-called ‘Rose Revolution‘, with help from the US, a coup d’état by the US (and EU puppet states). He had to flee the country in 2017 because he literally brought the country to the brink of collapse. After fleeing Georgia, he was given Ukrainian citizenship and became governor of Odessa. He had to flee under then-president Poroshenko, but was brought back by Zelensky (the EU-US).
After Saakashvili’s hearing in court in February 2023, President of Ukraine Zelensky accused the Georgian government of “public torture” of Ukrainian citizen Saakashvili and claimed that “Russia is killing Ukrainian citizen Mikheil Saakashvili at the hands of Georgian authorities.”
It even goes so far that Russia’s Today (RT) reporter Donald Courtier was not allowed into Georgia to report on the protests, the Saaskavili and US-EU camp probably did not allow that.
History of Georgia
In June 1979, the US Carter administration was sending weapons to the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan for their “jihad” against the Soviet Union (the Soviet Union was involved in the Afghan war). The US claimed that the decision to use the CIA to arm and train the Mujaheddin was made to curb Soviet expansionism. In the early 1970s, an embargo imposed by members of OPEC caused a serious oil crisis and global economic chaos. The Iranian revolution of 1978-79 was a warning to the US that a new oil crisis was coming. It has now become clear that the US wanted a geopolitical base in Afghanistan. After the failure of that plan, it was Georgia’s turn.
The Afghan base should have made it possible to build an oil pipeline through the area, from the Caspian Sea, through Afghanistan to Karachi in Pakistan and then to Asia. However, the ongoing war in Afghanistan has made the construction of this pipeline impossible, forcing the US to change its plans. The US was then planning to build a pipeline from the Caspian Sea, to Baku, Tiblisi and finally to Cyhan, a port in Turkey.
Georgia, like Afghanistan, is wedged between Russia and the Middle East, but because it borders the Caspian Sea it was quickly considered an energy corridor. Through Georgia it is possible to export oil from the Caspian Sea to all world markets, without having to go through Russia. That’s the interest from the US and EU, not the people of Georgia!
The overthrow of Georgian leader Edward Shevardnadze and his government was portrayed by the Western media as a ‘velvet’ or ‘pink’ revolution. In reality, events were much more ominous. Shevardnadze was initially an ally of the US, he ensured that Georgia split from Russia. But a series of economic disagreements between him and the US, he realized that he needed Russia and made Shevardnadze of no use to the US. Then realizing the US betrayed him, Shevardnadze signed a 25-year deal with Russian energy giant Gazprom. The US response to this was that the Bush administration manipulated the elections in Georgia in order to get rid of Shevardnadze. This was achieved through the use of an American polling firm, Global Strategy, which produced predictions suggesting that the election results had been rigged. The US immediately demanded that the election results be overturned, which subsequently resulted in a victory for the US-educated and puppet candidate, Mikhail Saakashvili.
During the elections, work was done behind the scenes by a youth organization called ‘Kmara‘ (‘Enough’). The example for this organization was OPTOR, the organization that helped to defeat the elections in former Yugoslavia. Both Kmara and OTPOR were created by the US and financed by George Soros (Open Border Society).
In 2004, the then leader of the Georgian Labor Party, announced that his party had filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights over the coup that his party claims carried out during the elections in Georgia. The Labor Party also demanded $100 million dollar in damages from the US for Mikhail Saakashvili’s taking office. The Labor Party accused the US government of organizing an illegal parliament. The Labor Party also pointed out that all opposition parties in Georgia were prosecuted if they did not want to cooperate with the US-installed government.
Ignoring the protest, Georgia’s then new president, Mikhail Saakashvili, arrived in the US to meet with President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, representatives of Congress, the Senate, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and George Soros . Backed by the Bush administration, Saakashvili pushed through parliamentary changes to the Georgian constitution that gave him unconditional power to appoint and dismiss ministers without public consultation or approval from deputies.
I have mentioned already the end of Saakashvili, he was deposed, but now there is a president named Salome Zourabichvili, she is the last president before the political system is changed. According to the West, she is just a symbol. Of course she is now pressured by the US to overrule the foreign agent law. If it was the case that Georgia is independent and sovereign, she should have no veto power, in effect she boycotted the entire government that voted in favour of the new “foreign agent law.” Georgia’s president vetoes controversial ‘foreign agents’ bill | Protests News | Al Jazeera
VS Basis en Biological Laboratory
Since the end of the Soviet Union, Georgia was part of the Soviet Union, the Americans, as I call it, have occupied Georgia (just like in Germany and other parts of the world). The Vaziani military base is located about twenty kilometers outside Tbilisi. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has been deceived many times by the “free West”. During an OSCE summit in Istanbul in 1999, the then renamed Russian Federation and Georgia made a joint declaration that the Russian military bases in Gudauta and Vaziani would be disbanded and withdrawn as of July 1, 2001. Russia finally relinquished control on June 29, 2001. But America (and the West) remained.
In July 2008 it was turned intothe site of Immediate Response Unit of the US, the US training operations for Georgian troops. The Vaziani military base with its training areas has also been chosen as the site for the construction of one of the planned NATO-Georgia joint training centres code named JTEC, in accordance with the 2014 Wales Summit agreement on enhancing cooperation on the field of education and training between Georgia and NATO, of course without consent or consultation with Russia, which warned that NATO and the West were getting too “close” to Russia!
As the Russian Ministry of Defense has written many times and I have devoted a whole series of articles to it, in line with the US military bases, in nine out of ten cases a biological laboratory is present and all kinds of very dangerous experiments are carried out, including on the local population (usually via hospitals or medical centers in the area) as evidence surfaced during the Special Military Operation in the Donbass. All evidence and documentation shows that it is not for the benefit of the population but the ultimate goal is to create biological weapons for the US military and NATO.
In Georgia there is a US biological laboratory called the Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research, a so-called research center for the health of Georgians, but actually a biological laboratory for making US biological weapons.
The USD 100 million dollar laboratory was opened in Tbilisi outskirts in 2011 to promote public and animal health through infectious disease detection and epidemiological surveillance. The research facility was established with the US support and funding.
Of course, the US strongly denies and accuses Russia of conspiracy theories, after all they are very transparent, people are allowed to watch (by invitation only and pro US of course). In 2018, a Bulgarian journalist went to take a look (see video below) and spoke to the local residents, as it is located in a residential area. They complained about strange smells and smoke.
Documents leaked to Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva by Georgian insiders indicate that the US Embassy to Tbilisi is involved in the trafficking of frozen human blood and pathogens as diplomatic cargo for a secret military program. Today this is still going on and the classes seen recently in Georgia are part of it. Edited: Mirjam©Video
Georgia, has chosen a wrong path since the Rose Revolution and has become a puppet state, part of the West, which in fact, like in many countries, calls the shots in the country. Western hegemony and imperialism are a threat to world peace and Georgia borders Russia, a dangerous move.
*Sonja Van den Ende is an independent journalist from the Netherlands who has written about Syria, the Middle East, and Russia among other topics. She writes for several news outlets and studied among other studies like Journalism and English (BA) a study in Global Media, War and Technology (BA). Based in Moscow, Russia.
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