By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-06 17:16:46 | Updated at 2024-12-22 21:11:33
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EU does not want a member state in Georgia, it wants a client state
Brussels Signal ^ | 12/6/24 | Anthony J. Constantini
Posted on 12/06/2024 9:13:23 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
If you would hear it from the liberal internationalists, the battle for the future of democracy is being fought in Tbilisi. There, protestors are facing off with – in Brussels’ telling – a pro-Kremlin gang eager to drag Georgia into Russia’s orbit. The European Union, it claims, is supportive of Georgia taking a democratic path.
But Brussels does not want a democracy – it wants a client state.
How did we get here? It started when the Georgian government (now opposition) blundered into a major war with Russia, back in 2008. Georgia lost that war, and the government was resoundingly sent into opposition in the 2012 parliamentary elections. The winners, the Georgia Dream, wanted a more conciliatory approach with Russia. While not “pro-Russian,” they did not deem it in the national interest to get into wars with neighbouring countries which were 245 times their size.
Georgia Dream then won the following parliamentary elections in 2016 and in 2020. But in 2020, the opposition – still fractured – claimed fraud, and organized mass protests. Eventually, Georgia Dream came to a European Union-backed deal: if the Georgia Dream got at least 43 percent of the vote in 2021’s local elections – which they did, garnering just over 46 percent — the elections were fair. EU observers said that “democratic values and freedoms were generally respected.”
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TOPICS: European Union; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; georgia; georgiandream
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