Some 80 percent of Georgians want to join the EU, which begs the question of why the ruling party feels so secure.
Eighty percent of Georgians want to join the European Union, so how can the government be so confident it will hold onto power by spurning Brussels and seemingly deliberately torpedoing the nation’s EU prospects?
That’s the political paradox at the heart of the crisis gripping the country.
In a sharp slap in the face to the EU, the ruling Georgian Dream party has passed Russian-style legislation that Brussels fears could be used to label media, think-tanks and NGOs with even a drop of Western funding as “foreign agents,” crimping freedom of speech.
The EU is making clear this legislation means membership is effectively off the cards, and the authorities used water cannon and pepper spray against thousands of protestersdemonstrating against it outside parliament on Wednesday night.
I mean Ukraine agreeing to nuclear deproliferation on the contingent they wouldn’t get invaded by Russia, then getting invaded by Russia less than 30 years later is a recent and very topical one
But isn’t the primary reason for the Ukraine invasion because NATO and western nations are encroaching further and further east, practically on Russia’s doorstep? If I recall properly, NATO also agreed they wouldn’t expand eastward, but they broke their promise as well.
Think of the Cuban missile crisis. The USA hated the thought of having missiles so close as well.
The primary reason for Russia invading Ukraine is that they feel Ukraine is Russian. It has nothing to do with Putin’s anti-NATO propaganda, which wasn’t even seriously being discussed until Russia invaded Crimea in 2014.
This is all due to Russian aggression, nothing else.