Ukraine War Day #827: Gruzia The Designated Second Front? – Part II

Dear Readers:

Continuing this saga about the beleaguered Gruzian government, the latest target of a NATO Color Revolution. Recall the cast of characters: the governing party, “Georgian Dream” is wise to the ways of the Hegemon and knows well that it is under attack. From the moment it started drafting the “Foreign Agents” law, it was viciously combatted by the trained dogs of the Hegemon; met with the usual street protests and hysterical propaganda about “Russian influence,” and “Putin’s puppets”, and so on. The law (which passed, was vetoed by the President, then overrode the veto) is mild enough: It doesn’t ban foreign-funded NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations) sponsored by the U.S. All it timidly asks if that any organization receiving more than 20% of its funding from abroad, register as Foreign Agents and reveal the sources of their funding. Almost every country in the world, including the U.S., has a similar law.

The idea behind the law is this, and it’s a good one: Once the stupefied public (the vast mass of ordinary people) becomes informed as to exactly is behind these mass protests, then they will stop attending them, leaving the streets only to the most dedicated ideological cadres of the various fascist organizations. Protest demonstrations will shrink and fade away.

Carrot And Stick

Prime Minister Irakly Kobakhidze: “I know exactly what they are up to.”

Recall that Prime Minister Irakly Kobakhidze, sponsor of the bill and men’s hair-mousse model in his spair time [little joke there], was threatened, by Euro-Commissar Olivér Várhelyi, with the same fate as Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who is still fighting for his life after an assassination attempt.

Gruzian politicians who voted for the law were threatened with personal sanctions; for example, the U.S. might confiscate any property they own abroad and forbid them entry to the United States.

That’s the stick.

There is also a carrot: Should the Gruzians decide to repeal this “hideous law”, then they get a packet of economic aid from the U.S., including favored trade relations. As if, the reporters note sarcastically, the bigwigs in Washington DC will stop drinking California or French wine and switch to Gruzian Kindzmarauli.

But wait, it gets better: In addition to economic incentives, the Gruzian political leaders are promised “military technology” plus all the training and equipment they need to help them avert “Russian aggression”, once they …. open up a second front against the Russian army! Who could refuse such an offer? After all, it’s a real treat, and not one that is offered to every mortal being, to get to go out and play against Team Russia!

The current Gruzian government sees the situation as almost existential: This “Foreign Agent Law” is their last chance to avoid being forced to march off to war against Russia and get creamed in the process.

Similarly, the Opposition, these are basically the pro-Sakaashvili forces, funded by Western NGO’s, those who succeeded in luring 150,000 people out into the streets to protest the law; they also see this struggle as the “Final Decisive Battle” in their quest to return to power. They are motivated by money, of course, but also by the hope of overthrowing the government and getting the top positions in the new coup government.

After which they intend to open up the “Second Front” against Russia on the battlefield.

NATO’s Column

Hunger Games: The 3-finger salute.

There are, in Gruzia, over 25,000 registered NGO’s! These are funded by grants (primarily Soros with his “Transparency International” Foundation) and donations. In a single year the various grants spend around $175 million. One major focus is to brainwash university students to the pro-NATO ideology. As a result of these ideological and financial manipulations, Gruzia has become an American colony over the past 30 years. But the Georgian Dream government had the temerity to rebel against that. Its goal is genuine independence, and sovereignty for this small nation.

The reporters interviewed a pro-Russian Gruzian pundit named Dmitry Lortkipanidze, who outlined the 7 major earmarks of a Color Revolution, all of which can be seen in Tbilisi.

7 Ways to know you are the Target of a Color Revolution:

1. Protest signs written in English. This is for the benefit of the Western audience, obviously.
2. Bringing children to protest meetings. The goal is to emphasize that the demonstration is “peaceful”. They want to show photos of sweet children and lovely young girls draped in the flag, against the backdrop of brutish cops. To be sure, children and young girls are in the foreground, but often, not far behind them, are the athletic young “militants” (in Russian these are called “sporty young men of athletic build”) whose job is to engage the riot police. This is classic stuff, as employed in the Ukrainian Maidan.
3. Wild rumors. About beatings, disappearances of Oppositionists, snipers, etc. For example, during the Tbilisi protests the crowds started chanting: “Who beat up David Katsarava and Lazare Grigoriadis?” as if they were complaining about harm done to innocent victims. The actor David Katsarava just returned from fighting as a mercenary in the Ukraine. The activist Grigoriadis was caught throwing Molotov cocktails at the police. That happened in an earlier protest. Then pro-NATO President Salome Zurabichvili personally pardoned Grigoriadis, so that he could reappear at the new protests. Speaking of Zurabichvili, she is a citizen of France and receives her salary from abroad, so she actually falls under the guidelines of the new law. Which she vetoed.
4. Whipping up the crowd with emotions. Noise, whistles, shouts, drums, the revving of motorcycles, the flash of lasers. Under this kind of auditory and visual stimuli, people lose their ability to think critically. Protest leaders continually shout orders: Dance, sing, chant, jump up and down. They don’t want the protesters to have even a moment of peace, to think about what they are doing. This technology has been used successfully not just in Ukraine and Gruzia, but was also employed in Nazi Germany. One can see this in a black-and-white film made by Soviet Director Mikhail Romm, “Ordinary Fascism”, in which archival footage shows Germans swaying in unison out in the public square. Mosh-pit Metal Individualists, meet your new Führer!
5. Handing out cookies. Just like in Kiev. The very same thing is happening on the streets of Gruzia. There is a religious symbolism to this, like taking Communion.
6. Mystical rituals. During the time of the protests, young Gruzians created a kind of ritual whereby they would gather in a flashmob, kiss each other, and then salute the air with their right hand. Allegedly they borrowed this ritual from the movie Hunger Games, where it was a symbol of freedom and protest against a tyrranical government. But it also looks quite a lot like the Nazi “Heil dir Sonne!” salute “From the heart greeting the sun”, aka, “Heil to You, Mister Sunshine!”
7. Setting up kill lists. In Ukraine, all opponents of the Maidan were declared Enemies of the People and put up on the kill-list site Mirotvorec, along with their personal and demographic data. Once they were doxed, anybody was free to just stroll into their home and kill them. Similarly, the Gruzian Opps have published a map showing all enterprises in Tbilisi that are owned by Russians or Belorussians. Pogroms to ensue? Compiling lists also provides a kind of emotional release for the people doing it; makes them taste what power is like before they even have it.

Lortkipanidze: The Ukrainian Maidan and the Gruzian protests: Identical like two drops of water! Instead of cookies, they hand out small pies. They are already bringing in gas masks for the protesters. We stand at a decisive moment. The Opposition is raging, it is closing off the squares and streets. It is demanding unquestioning support from the public. And yet it does not really enjoy the support of the majority.

Next: We hear from another Gruzian politician, Zurab Makharadze, from the Conservative Party.

[to be continued]