Georgia and Russian Eyes
So we need to ask, how are Russians reacting to the protests in Tbilisi? Realize this was one of the first countries invaded by Vladimir Putin’s Russia after Chechnya. For all intents and purposes, it lost part of its territory to Russia.
The excuses for the war will sound eerily similar to 2014 in the Donbas, including the protection of Russian speakers. The protests are coming from the passage of a foreign agent law eerily similar to what the Russian Duma passed after February of 2022. So there is fear that this revolt could lead to the loss of everything.
First, let me introduce you to Moscow Calling post as of this morning:
Everything is technologically advanced. A women’s protest march has started in Tbilisi.
This is not in the sense of support or condemnation — the Georgians know better what and against what they are protesting. This is just a statement of the fact that technologies of approximately 30–40 years ago remain in demand in peripheral territories.
By “peripheral” one must understand not only a purely territorial feature. For example, in developed countries, such as the United States, they also have their own internal peripheral locations, where the population lives, which is easily “spun” on ingenuous manipulative practices.
A classic unorganized…