Glory to past, present and future foreign agents in Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan...??? NO!

Glory to past, present and future foreign agents in Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan...??? NO!

 

Greg Krasovsky

April 17, 2024

 

Glory to past, present and future Georgian foreign agents who put the geopolitical interests of their foreign paymasters (transnational financial-industrial groups (FIGs)[1] that control Western governments), ahead of Georgia's and are willing to plunge Georgia into recession, slow obliteration of Georgia's culture and its ethnic & religious traditions, and even civil & foreign wars and use Georgia as their expendable political, economic and military pawn?

NO!

 
Foreign interference in domestic political affairs, especially of relative small countries (by population, land mass, natural resources and/or national economy) through domestic agents of influence (foreign agents) in
 
- political parties/movements,
 
- all branches of government (nationwide and local),
 
- non-governmental (non-profit) organizations, and
 
- key industries (mass media, communications, security,
weapons manufacturing and defense contractors)
is extremely dangerous, if not lethal,  to national sovereignty and autonomy, not to mention genuine democracy by the people and for the people.
 
Why?
 
Because foreign paymasters who can spend billions of dollars / euros / cryptocurrencies  without even blinking an eye, if left unchecked, can quickly gain total control of a relative small country's political system, government, non-government organizations mass media and industry -- for their own purposes which may be diametrically opposed to the local population's traditions, future generations and long term interests.
 
So how do you protect your country from foreign interference?
 
By legislation
 
- requiring the disclosure and registration of foreign agents,
 
- prohibiting foreign financing of political parties, politicians, lobbyists, NGOs,

- prohibiting, limiting or regulating foreign investment in mass media, especially news media, and other key industries.
 
So what happens when you don't enact the above measures?
 
Easy!
 
You get a country that
 
- loses its sovereignty,
 
- only has superficial democracy if not a foreign-controlled authoritarian state (albeit loyal to its foreign
sponsors),
 
- is run by government officials, politicians and political parties who value the compensation, protection and marching orders from their foreign sponsors / handlers / controllers more than the support and interests of their domestic population and electorate,
 
- serves the interests of its foreign sponsors (foreign governments and the FIGs controlling them) above or even in opposition to the interests of its own population / citizenry.
 
So if you're a Georgian patriot who's for a sovereign, democratic, free and independent Georgia -- independent of American, EU, NATO and Russian influence (both government and FIG) -- then you should support keeping foreign money, influence and agents out of Georgian political affairs.
 
Unless you're a de facto foreign agent, a Georgian who received(s) funding from foreign
 
- government programs & agencies,
 
- transnational FIGs and their subsidiaries, public relations firms & lobbyists,
 
- NGOs (funds, foundations, endowments, etc.),
- political parties & movements,
 
- educational & research institutions (universities, institutes and think tanks),
 
and is afraid that enactment of the foreign agent law will put an end to the foreign feeding troth.

Or who wants Georgia to become a vassal / puppet state, a banana republic, a modern version of former colonies from the 15th to the 20th centuries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.
 
Any questions or comments?
 
Obviously it's easier just to chant simple slogans -- including those that have been used in the past by non-democratic fascist regimes and political movements -- than to address and try to refute the above truths point by point.
 
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[1] Including transnational FIGs with huge holdings in the military-industrial complex, energy, pharmaceutical, communications and mass media sectors.
 
FIGs whose primary motives are
 
(a) wealth preservation
 
- including protecting business operations and assets from government seizure / confiscation / nationalization by controlling governments through their agents of influence (political parties, politicians, elected & appointed government officials and senior civil servants in all branches of government),

      and
 
(b) long-term profit from business activity world-wide, including from
 
- government contracts, especially in defense, security and law enforcement sectors,
 
- government financing,
 
- labor (human resources) that's cheap, unorganized and unprotected from unsafe or unhealthy work conditions,
 
- consumers that are uneducated, brain-washed by advertising or with limited options purchasing options through monopolies & cartels,
 
- cheap sources of raw materials (if necessary, with raw material price suppression through collusion or market control via commodities exchanges),
 
- low environmental protection that allows manufacturers to reduce production costs at the expense of environmental pollution,

- lax legislation and government enforcement against monopolies, trusts, price collusion, market manipulation, and tax evasion though transfer pricing and offshore structures,
 
- favorable tax treatment, customs regimes and government subsidies,
 
most of which is accomplished with the indispensable aid of their agents of influence (foreign agents).
 

https://twitter.com/URA_Observer/status/1780701819037266385

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Medea Ivaniadze
@medeaivan

2:43 PM · Apr 17, 2024

Georgian rock band Loudspeakers: “Glory to Ukraine, glory to Georgia, F* Russia” 🇺🇦🇬🇪

https://twitter.com/medeaivan/status/1780668345118839047

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Mariam Nikuradze
@mari_nikuradze

2:04 PM · Apr 17, 2024

Glory to Ukraine, glory to Georgis  F* Russia - said geo band LOUDspeakers frontman now, they play their most famous hit right now
 
https://twitter.com/mari_nikuradze/status/1780658732646474198

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Baiting the Bear: Russia and NATO.

Baiting the Bear: Russia and NATO
by Conn Hallinan at CounterPunch.org

  

Greg Krasovsky: I agree with U.S. Admiral Mark Ferguson, commander of U.S. naval forces in Europe, who is cited as saying “I don’t think many people understand the visceral way Russia views NATO and the European Union as an existential threat,”.

 

Selected excerpts:

"“Aggressive,” “revanchist,” “swaggering”: These are just some of the adjectives the mainstream press and leading U.S. and European political figures are routinely inserting before the words “Russia,” or “Vladimir Putin.” It is a vocabulary most Americans have not seen or heard since the height of the Cold War.

The question is, why?

Is Russia really a military threat to the United States and its neighbors? Is it seriously trying to “revenge” itself for the 1989 collapse of the Soviet Union? Is it actively trying to rebuild the old Soviet empire? The answers to these questions are critical, because, for the first time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, several nuclear-armed powers are on the edge of a military conflict with fewer safeguards than existed 50 years ago.

...

First, it is the silly season—American elections—and bear baiting is an easy way to look “tough.” It is also a tried and true tactic of the U.S. armaments industry to keep their production lines humming and their bottom lines rising. The Islamic State is scary but you don’t need big-ticket weapons systems to fight it. The $1.5 trillion F-35s are for the Russkies, not terrorists.

There are also those who still dream of regime change in Russia. Certainly that was in the minds of the neo-cons when they used The National Endowment for Democracy and Freedom House to engineer—at the cost of $5 billion—the coup that toppled Ukraine into NATO’s camp. The New American Century gang and their think tanks—who brought you Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria—would to leverage Russia out of Central Asia.

The most frightening aspect of current East-West tension is that there is virtually no discussion of the subject, and when there is it consists largely of distorted history and gratuitous insults. Vladimir Putin might not be a nice guy, but the evidence he is trying to re-establish some Russian empire, and is a threat to his neighbors or the U.S., is thin to non-existent. His 2014 speech at the Valdai International Discussion Club is more common sense than bombast.

Expansionist? Russia has two bases in the Middle East and a handful in Central Asia. The U.S. has 662 bases around the world and Special Forces (SOF) deployed in between 70 and 90 countries at any moment. Last year SOFs were active in 147 countries. The U.S. is actively engaged in five wars and is considering a sixth in Libya. Russian military spending will fall next year, and the U.S. will out-spend Moscow by a factor of 10. Who in this comparison looks threatening?"

 

Please read the rest of article at: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/04/baiting-the-bear-russia-and-nato/