Eurasia note #84: Georgia Warns U.S.-Backed Groups Plotting Unrest

Economic interests seeking control of land to reshape energy routes

• In play: Africa, Balkans, South Caucasus, Eastern and Western Europe, U.S. too

• 120,000-plus Armenians flee Artsakh/Karabakh after 2.000-plus years

• Turkey and Azerbaijan eye more territory for trade and energy routes

• Georgian security service warns Color Revolution teams active in South Caucasus

• Serbian president calls for more NATO in Kosovo. Surprise: there’s a pipeline!

• Like the Great Reset, it's all about the control of land and resources

• Globalists ignore the need for relations with neighbours, shared customs

• It’s not ironic: owner-investors aim to redirect the axis of trade

• Creating division is part of the strategy - eliminating small countries if necessary

See also Eurasia note #83 - Tragedy As Armenians Flee Karabakh (Sep 26, 2023)
Georgia's Colourful Riot Not Yet Revolution (Mar 8, 2023)
Europe, Gas And The Endgame: Switching the energy axis from East-West, to South-North (Sep 30, 2022)
Azerbaijan Hits Armenia With Turkish Drones (Sep 13, 2022)
Eurasia note #60 – Armenia and Azerbaijan (Sep 23, 2022)

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Demonstrations over the ‘foreign agent’ bill outside Georgia’s parliament, Mar 2023

UPDATE Oct 5 - Azerbaijan pulls out of peace talks in Granada, Spain, after France offers military support to Armenia.

Tbilisi, Oct 4, 2023

For the second time in a fortnight Georgia’s security service has accused outside forces of fomenting a government overthrow.

State Security Service of Georgia said a network of CIA-backed “non-profits” or charities had invited and trained agitators who were pushing for a “violent uprising.”

Since war in Ukraine, Georgia’s economy has become more integrated with Russia, not less.

That’s not what the Western analysts expected — and they don’t like it. That’s one reason they pressure the government. Tbilisi may be no friend of Russia (it calls it an occupier) but it maintains the trade corridors open.

Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have found refuge in Georgia, or make it their temporary home before moving on to places like Cyprus or Israel.

The tone of concern at these economic ties is obvious from Transparency International (a Soros-backed foundation) in its Sep 2023 assessment: “The goal of the Government of Georgia should be the reduction of economic dependence on Russia to a minimum.”

What would Georgia have left if it cut trade ties with Russia? Turkey and Israel.

All its main trade/remittance partners have already been holed below the waterline by the globalists: Italy, Greece, Spain in the EU crisis, now Germany in the Nord Stream detonation, and even China faces a credit overhang.

Why is the globalist/IMF prescription always self immolation? They dangled EU membership in front of Ukraine, and the moment Kyiv cut ties with Russia, the EU offer disappeared. What they got instead was war.

Who pays the piper...

The speaker of Georgia’s parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, accused USAID of using its considerable financial resources to incite riots in foreign countries.

It funds the Centre for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), a successor to Otpor! which orchestrated protests against Slobodan Miloševic after the election of Sep 2000, resulting in his resignation.

SSG published a video which it said showed foreign nationals from the group training activists in Tbilisi on how to bring down governments.

CANVAS and a United Nations affiliate, Civil Ge, denied it was fomenting unrest and stated its activities, in more than 50 countries, are “based on the non-violent struggle curriculum that is publicly available online.”

They use the language of social justice warriors: “tools and knowledge on community organization and advocating for positive social changes.”

Civil Ge accused Georgian security services of spite after NGOs blocked a law in 2023 that would have registered them as foreign agents (see below). [1]

Far from being an organic Serbian product, one of the founders of Otpor!, Srda Popovic, was previously employed by Stratfor, a private intelligence firm in Texas. [2]

Anyone who has encountered U.S intel, or worked where it overlaps with the media or corporate world, is familiar with the culture of micro management. The idea that USAID or any U.S foundation would hand over millions of dollars to a bunch of role-playing social justice warriors is laughable — it directs them.

... Calls the tune

The non-violence of a protest depends on precisely what is being demanded. Especially when vested interests fund it covertly. And if those interests are sectarian, then the protest is actually a passive-aggressive threat of violence.

This process is playing out back in the USA. In this era of forced change, or “cascading crises” the principal fiction of the neo-liberal elites is that everything they do results from Nature (climate, wildfires) or the People (transgender, homelessness, migration, drug abuse, food and fuel shortages).

Behind these crises and protests is a constellation of philanthropic fronts. And they are at work around the world: Africa, the Balkans, South Caucasus, and Eastern and Western Europe.

The East-West Management Institute (EMWI) focuses on activities affecting the judiciary, government administration and public participation.

USAID is the main U.S. government agency channelling foreign aid. It commands sums of money that outspend and destabilise regional governments. For example:

• In 2021 USAID diverted almost $42 million to pay the salaries of Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó and his team.

• In 2018 USAID channelled nearly $9 million through EMWI to give Albania's government greater control of the judiciary. [3]

With no sense of hypocrisy, seeking to control the judiciary was precisely the accusation the EU hurled at Hungary. You see, it depends who does it.

Georgian state security said USAID, acting through EMWI, had invited CANVAS to train activists in Tbilisi. This included how to block streets and create tension and a sense of unrest, construct tent cities, and how to get arrested and when to resist. It tends to use unconventional tactics to attract young supporters, including satire and street theatre, rather than debates and analysis.

Three Serbian activists were interviewed after running a training session from Sep 26-29 at a Tbilisi Ibis hotel. They later left the country.

In March this year, the ruling Georgian Dream party tried to pass a law registering foreign agents — non-governmental organisations (NGOS) that relied for more than 20 per cent of their income on overseas sources.

Western media published hyperbolic headlines: “Fall of democracy: Georgia's foreign agent law widely condemned.”

The U.S. makes its citizens register as foreign agents but it does not want other countries to place restrictions on the NGOs that it weaponises to conduct regime change abroad.

Sure enough, the NGOs deployed their now-standard technique outside Georgia's parliament in March 2023: The protests featured tactics that are classic Color Revolution: a two-tier approach of laid back protesters getting in the face of police, and pepper sprayed, while their colleagues film the not-so-innocent lambs. Meanwhile the Antifa types, complete with black hoodies, up the ante with makeshift barricades. This was no spontaneous outburst of anger but the more violent of a series of long-running protests.

In Ukraine Anti-Corruption Action, or AntAC, funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and George Soros, led the resistance to a law in 2018 that would have forced them to disclose financial accounts. Western diplomats and NGOs defeated that legislation. The irony of anti-corruption activists fighting against financial disclosure was presumably lost on these agents of Western influence. (See Transparency International, below).

See Georgia's Colourful Riot Not Yet Revolution (Mar 8, 2023)

Center of operations

The Georgian Security Service has also accused the deputy chief of Ukraine’s military counter-intelligence of plotting against the Tbilisi government.

It says foreign intelligence is trying to compromise Georgians who are fighting Russian forces in Ukraine, and those training near the border with Poland. This includes an ally of former president Mikhail Saakashvili and commander of the Georgian Legion, Mamuka Mamulashvil.

This would be consistent with Kyiv being an operations centre for the CIA. Russiagate was coordinated from Ukraine, as Glenn Beck laid out in one of his famous chalkboard presentations: “Ukraine, The Democrats’ Russia.” Alexandra Chalupa was point woman for the alleged Trump-Russia connection in 2016, even before the Steele Dossier had been invented by Britain’s SIS (MI6). [4]

Censorship of the Western media was run from Ukraine, where Nina Jancowicz, abortive head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, advised Ukraine’s foreign ministry, the UK Foreign Office and NGOs like the Wilson Center, on “disinformation” — while manufacturing it. She is linked to the website Myrotvorets that hosts the Ukrainian kill list of journalists and politicians.

Deadly pathogen research was prepared in Ukrainian bio labs, funded by the U.S. military and run through a Biden-related company, Metabiota.

See Biden On Payroll Of Ukraine’s Oligarchs (Jun 13, 2023)

Short sighted

Western intelligence is bull headed and ill informed when it comes to Georgia. The CIA and SIS/MI6 can only see the world as pro- or anti-Russian. The reality is more nuanced.

Georgian Dream, now in its third consecutive term, would like to join the European Union and is aligned with NATO. On the other hand it has a big neighbour to the north, Russia, and another to the east, Turkey.

It regards Russian forces as “occupying” the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. However, Georgian Dream has tried to calm tensions with the Kremlin for reasons of practical self interest.

Keeping trade routes open facilitates economic opportunities for its people: bringing tourists in, and sending workers abroad, as emigrantes. In turn they send money back home in the form of remittances. That means learning the regional languages, such as Turkish and Russian (which former president Mikheil Saakashvili began to phase out).

Similarly, the Kyiv government banned the teaching of Russian, to stir animosity, costing Ukraine its economic ties with Russia, while misleading Ukrainians about their chances of joining the European Union. [5]

This is the risk for Georgia, too. European Commissioners speak with forked tongue. Do not cut your ties with regional trading partners in return for vague promises of future membership of the EU.

Betraying Armenia

More than 120,000 Armenians left Artsakh, as they call Karabakh, in a matter of days. The U.S. government’s Radio Free Europe quotes families who were given hours to leave their birthplace. [6]

France is ready providing military equipment to Armenia, said foreign minister Catherine Colonna, though she did not mention what. The journal Politico said EU countries have already given all the weapons they can to Ukraine without compromising their own defence.

In the U.S. 75 members of the House of Representatives signed a letter calling on the Biden Administration to impose sanctions on Azerbaijan. They said the U.S. had armed Azerbaijan, knowing its aggressive intentions towards Karabakh, which was ethnically cleansed at the very moment that president Ilham Aliyev was addressing the United Nations General Assembly. [7]

However, the deed is done. A blow to a people whose land became part of the Kingdom of Armenia in 189 BC. [8]

After our previous update, we learned that Samantha Power, head of USAID arrived in Yerevan, on Sep 25 to coordinate the event, or rather to “express deep concern for the ethnic Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh and to discuss measures to address the humanitarian crisis there.” She brought $11 million in humanitarian aid for 120,000 refugees.

The U.S.’ concern lies elsewhere. Yerevan was the second-biggest U.S. embassy in the world, occupying 22 acres, until Beirut displaced it. The largest is Baghdad. What is it planning for?

In Armenia the WEF-aligned government ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) which has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine. The U.S. does not recognize the ICC as having any jurisdiction over American citizens.

The Baku government is holding several officials of the former statelet, including president of Nagorno-Karabakh Arayik Harutyunyan.

See Eurasia note #83 - Tragedy As Armenians Flee Karabakh (Sep 26, 2023)

The intergovernmental organisations and NGOs are mouthing platitudes and dispatching fact-finding missions. One day before the United Nations sent its mission to Karabakh, Azerbaijani President Aliyev donated $1 million to the UN Human Settlement Fund.

Like the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group (the United States, France and Russia) who were mediators in the Artsakh conflict, their statements about the use of force turned out to be worthless.