Failed Georgian Leader Calls for Sanctions in Whiny Op-Ed

Why are the signs always in English in these countries where no one understands English?

The US coup in Georgia seems to have totally fallen flat after it became so obvious that thousands of people waving US flags and protesting AGAINST registering foreign agents working in the media was not exactly organic.

Basically, the US was just too extreme with the color revolution stuff.

Now, they’re pursuing other options.

RT:

The West should impose sweeping economic sanctions and embargoes on Georgia, the country’s jailed former president Mikhail Saakashvili has said.

He claimed that doing so would secure his release from prison, while reasserting the status of the US and its allies as beacons of “democracy, decency and justice,” and delivering “another blow” to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Saakashvili set out his views on Friday in a piece written for Politico, titled: ‘I am a political prisoner in Georgia, and I am dying.’ The article largely focuses on his purported struggle against Putin, with the ex-leader claiming he continues “to defend democracy against Putin and his allies” even from his jail cell.

Wow, this is the most faggy title for an op-ed I’ve ever seen.

And I’ve seen some really, truly faggy op-ed titles in my day.

Who sees that and thinks anything other than “cry harder, faggot”?

Saakashvili argued that “democracy” is again under threat in Georgia and elsewhere, accusing the ruling Georgian Dream party of doing Putin’s bidding and showing “solidarity with Russia.”

The government, which has abstained from joining anti-Russia sanctions over the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, should do more to support Ukraine, he wrote.

“While there is, of course, legitimate apprehension about being openly hostile to the Kremlin given the danger Georgia faces, the vast majority of Georgians support the Ukrainian cause,” Saakashvili asserted.

The former president, who rose to power in 2003 after the US-backed Rose Revolution and ruled Georgia until late 2013, defended his own record of establishing “democracy” in Georgia, noting that “after just months in power,” he “was praised by leaders in Europe and the US for championing democracy and free markets.”

Having fled the country after his second term in office, Saakashvili briefly relocated to the US, but moved to Ukraine just two years later, taking the role of governor of Odessa Region under then-president Pyotr Poroshenko.

Saakashvili returned to Georgia in late 2021, was arrested, and has remained behind bars ever since, with several pending criminal cases over alleged abuse of power and other offenses.

Several senior Georgian officials have alleged the ex-president was deliberately sent in by Kiev to destabilize the situation in the country, and even stage a coup.

The former leader also implied that the Russian president wants him to die in jail, claiming that his “martyrdom will certainly be considered a victory for Putin – a powerful symbol to all leaders in this region, and possibly the world, who fail to stand up to Russian imperialism.”

Securing his release through putting pressure on Tbilisi, on the contrary, would deal a blow to the Russian president, Saakashvili asserted.

Well, it’s interesting that everything he’s asking for on the basis of politics also benefits him personally.

You see a lot of that.

It’s similar to the US arguing against foreign agent registration laws – on purely political grounds, mind you.

They’re just very concerned about democracy and so on.

It’s only a coincidence that this also benefits all of their programs of using agents to manipulate the politics of the countries where they don’t want these laws to be.

Georgia is still a hot zone.

The government retracted the foreign agents law in order to stop the protests, and then came out and pointed out that the protests were a US scam. But the US now has a standing army inside the country that they can use at any time.

That is clearly what the former president is asking for – an activation of these forces to free him and put him back in power.