Everyone knows there is no better way of getting a country to your side other than sanctioning them. For real, Russia could just step up now, deliver some aid or trade contracts and it’s done.
Disgusting that Georgia’s democratically elected parliament took such antidemocratic action by overruling the French comprador president’s veto. Can’t believe they would restrict free speech and compromise election integrity by requiring financial transparency to uncover foreign election interference. The day a few million Georgians voters have a greater say in Georgian politics than a single American capitalist is the day that democracy in Georgia is truly dead!
Pour one out for the landlords and comprador bribers 🤣
So clearly the legislation is aimed squarely at USA meddling and equally clearly is that the USA has no effective tools left to impose its will
Media freedom is when westoids undermine your country apparently.
This is good news for Georgia. They basically gave Georgia a blank check to get closer relations to Russia and China. The Eurolickers are gonna be angry still, but Georgia Dreams will be able to say “we have no choice, we are under sanctions, we need to save the economy”.
A few years later, when the Georgian economy gets stronger than ever, even if the ruling party changes, it’ll be really difficult for them to repeal this law or court the West for the possibility of becoming a Ukraine-like proxy in a catastrophic war.
The Caucasus Mountains will do more than this law ever can to stop Georgia from joining the European Union.
Georgia isn’t even in Europe. The idea that they should join the EU only makes sense if you view the EU as a white people’s club. Which kind of tracks when you look at how they treated Turkey’s repeated bids.
i mean its kinda in europe, the argument could be made for it, europe is a completely nebulous and flexible term anyways, borderline meaningless.
It’s definitely not. I agree that “Europe” is a more or less arbitrarily defined geographical entity (not a real continent), but there is no geographically coherent definition of “Europe” that extends south of the Caucasus mountains. Georgia is clearly in Asia and there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that.
There are definitions by which Georgia is in europe the definitions of the people who want it to join the eu, and if someone wanted to push that definition there is historical precedent at some points in time the generally agreed on definition included Georgia, this is not a matter of fact its a matter of convention.
liberals are going to start saying “georgia bad” now
They already have, it’s really funny to see mental gymnastics they start doing trying to justify why transparency is bad for democracy.
390 million over SEVERAL years. Surely, this will collapse the nation! /s
Just incredible levels of hypocrisy. I mean even for the west this is just shockingly naked “how dare you interfere with our interference in your country” level stuff. Considering not only is FARA on the books in the US and tougher than the Georgian law BUT the US is actively having a freakout about Russian/Chinese influence and investigating, interrogating, harassing, spying on, and using their media to hound anyone even sympathetic to them as deserving of prison or expulsion makes it extra rich.
