Thornton’s ‘destruction blueprint’ is a desperate outcry of the regime change ideologists, who, as we have seen in the Ukraine’s case, destroy societies with enthusiasm and then hide in the shadows – Papuashvili

Thornton’s ‘destruction blueprint’ is a desperate outcry of the regime change ideologists, who, as we have seen in the Ukraine’s case, destroy societies with enthusiasm and then hide in the shadows, writes the Speaker of the Parliament on the social network X.

“While the world is going through profound geopolitical transformation, some international networks continue meddling in Georgia’s internal affairs by trying to foment unrest and thus overthrow the legitimate government.

The #McCainInstitute’s Laura Thornton’s latest op-ed is a particularly blatant example of delusion combined with the unfortunate effects of foreign funding of radicalism.

For a moment, let us leave alone the delusional allegations of ‘dictatorship’, ‘repression’, and ‘torture’, never substantiated with any kind of evidence. A more interesting context is taking shape once we get inside the strange bubble that engulfed the minds of Georgia’s foreign frenemies and their local following.

First, Thornton represents the McCain institute, which employs Georgia’s ex-president Zourabishvili, who is now claiming to be ‘the only legitimate’ president of Georgia, despite her term expiring last year and Georgian Parliament electing the new president of the country.

Second, she refers to International Republican Institute (#IRI) and #ISFED as ‘reputable international and domestic observers’ to justify her claim that Georgia’s October Parliamentary elections were ‘neither free nor fair’, while neglecting the Report of the only legitimate international election monitoring organization, the OSCE/ODIHR. Now, IRI is funded from notorious #NED, which was accused by the current US Administration in meddling in foreign countries’ domestic affairs. ISFED is a local NGO, which falsified parallel vote tabulation results after the 2020 Parliamentary elections. #USAID funding for both IRI local office and ISFED were terminated recently after President Trump deemed such programs “serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries”. So, neither of these two organizations can be considered as ‘reputable’ by any standards.

Third, the NGO media platform, which published the op-ed, ‘Civil. ge’, is also funded from NED, and its managing editor is a wife of one of the most radical Georgian politicians.

Now, from within this strange bubble of intertwined personalities and organizations funded from the same foreign source, Thornton advocates for a forceful change of government in Georgia, alluding to the spirit of the Ukrainian Maidan, which, for most Georgians, has become a symbol of the destruction of a nation, not ‘a global call for freedom’, as Thornton strangely claims.

Despairing about the impotence of Georgian opposition to mobilize either electorate or protest movement to change or overthrow the government, Thornton suggests to make Georgia ‘basically ungovernable through national strikes and boycotts’, alluding to the possibility of involving security forces and military into the action. She also recommends that Georgia’s radical opposition ‘connect… to the deeper grievances and bread-and-butter concerns of Georgians’.

This is where the magnitude of Thorton’s and her allies’ delusion shows itself with full force. Trying to destabilize the most democratic nation of the region through the ‘paralysis of economy’ goes against the interests not only Georgians but also the US Administration, whom Thornton so vehemently hates, calling president Trump ‘rapist’ and ‘criminal’. Moreover, luring Georgians into rebelling against the government for their ‘bread-and-butter’ problems is entirely pointless because first, Georgians never sell their national interests because of hardship, and, second, Georgia is one of the fastest growing economies worldwide in the last few years.

While the US Administration tries to stop wars and make peace, some international networks, still using the US taxpayers’ money, are trying to stir trouble and push foreign countries towards the war and destruction.