Salomé Zourabichvili, who claims to be the president of Georgia, calls on US President Trump to finish what the Biden administration failed to accomplish [1]:
“I had the chance to tell him [Donald Trump] that this [Georgia] was a strategic region that cannot be forgotten by the United States … It has to be said that the previous administration, while having a priority on democracy, did not really do anything about preserving democracy in Georgia over the past two years… Now the new administration has a different approach, clearly. But that approach of a strong America, if it’s sustained, means that they have to be concerned about what happens in the Caucasus and in that region. Even if democracy is not as such, the priority, geopolitics should be the priority”.
It is imperative for the US to refrain from acknowledging the legitimacy of the victory achieved by the pro-Georgian Georgian Dream party. Measures should be taken to facilitate re-elections while simultaneously asserting colonial authority over Georgia.
After all, Georgia is the “key transit route for goods and energy from Azerbaijan, Central Asia, and China” and “an easternmost outpost of Euro-American values in a region increasingly under pressure from authoritarian powers”, and if Georgia is not at odds with Russia, then it means that “this region of the US was released into Russia” (presumably, to the greatest surprise of Russia caught off guard!).
The other day, this narrative was very specifically articulated by the western actors of cognitive warfare from The National Interest and Hudson Institute[2,3].
Furthermore, they depicted the context with a frenzied and relentless insistence, arguing that “the Biden administration’s approach to Georgia largely mirrors the mistakes it made regarding Ukraine. They consistently delayed action, opting for measures that gave the appearance of progress rather than taking swift and necessary steps”, “As for Georgian Dream’s claim about a so-called “global war party” allegedly pressuring Georgia to open a second front and join the war with Russia, I have never heard any serious analyst, political expert, lawmaker, or commentator in America entertain this idea” and “There is no “deep state”[4].
The devil’s greatest trick is to convince you that he does not exist, as Charles Baudelaire used to say in situations like this.
1 https://www.hudson.org/foreign-policy/georgia-brink-what-us-should-do-next-luke-coffey
“Georgia’s leader calls for Trump’s ‘strong America’ to push back Russia” (Laura Kelly, The Hill, 01/26/25 6:00 AM ET);
2 https://www.hudson.org/foreign-policy/georgia-brink-what-us-should-do-next-luke-coffey
“Georgia on the Brink: What the US Should Do Next” (Luke Coffey, Hudson Institute, December 9, 2024);
3 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/west-cannot-afford-neglect-georgia%E2%80%99s-fight-freedom-214144
“The West Cannot Afford to Neglect Georgia’s Fight for Freedom” (Laura Linderman, The National Interest, December 20, 2024);
4 https://www.hudson.org/corruption/there-no-deep-state-it-merely-government-propaganda-luke-coffey
“There Is No Deep State. It Is Merely Government Propaganda” (Luke Coffey, JAM News – Hudson Institute, January 11, 2025).