What We Saw During the Georgian Elections

Georgia had its parliamentary elections on October 26, 2024 and of course, what we predicted happened. The ruling party won a 54% majority, sending 89 deputies to parliament. The coalition of the compradors lost, with all four opposition party blocs combining for the remaining 46%. Of course, they did not accept the results, which was also predictable.

Photo credit above: Tbilisi evening, Narikala Ancient Fortress and St. Nicholas' Church

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What's at stake?

For Georgia, in a word: everything. Georgia has played things smart the last several years and refused to follow Washington, London and Brussels' dictates vis-a-vi Russia. Instead of slapping down sanctions, halting all deals and worst of all, opening a second front, Georgia has done quite the opposite and reaped the rewards.

Comparing Georgia to another post-Soviet state in Moldova, which under Romanian/EU citizen Maia Sandu's government has followed all Collective Western demands with high eagerness, paints a stark contrast. Moldova has all but collapsed economically. Inflation has reached 40%, while the Georgian lari has strengthened against other currencies. Economic growth in Moldova over the past two years has been near zero and may have been negative in real terms, if actual inflation-adjusted figures were ever released. Georgia, well positioned geographically, has seen an 18% growth rate. Investments in Georgia are growing, not only from Russia but also from neighboring Turkey and Iran. Moldova has received a pitiful 100 million euros over two years from the near-broke EUrocrats, who are obsessed with their losing war in Ukraine.

Then CIA Director Mike Pompeo's Reported Visit to Warmonger in Georgia

Worst of all for the Globalist American Empire (GAE), the Georgians have refused to sacrifice themselves waging a pointless war with Russia for faraway colonial masters. As a matter of fact, the Georgians began refusing to take hostile actions toward Russia long before the SMO started. Previous CIA Director Mike Pompeo on his Langley farewell tour reportedly stopped in Tbilisi and demanded from then-Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili that he start a war with Russia. An article describing this event went viral on Russian and Georgian Telegram channels shortly before last week's parliamentary elections. When Pompeo was asked why the Georgians would want to take such suicidal actions, with Garibashvili saying his military would not be able to hold out beyond four days, Pompeo purportedly answered with: but then you can wage a guerrilla war with Russia in the Caucuses Mountains that could last for years.

Garibashvili was appalled by Pompeo's alleged remarks and rationally refused. Keep in mind that this all happened many months before the start of open hostilities between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022.

The Georgian Dream party made sure that the population fully understood the stakes. All over the country placards and billboards made the contrast between war in Ukraine and peace in Georgia stark. An example of this is one where on the right side of the billboard is a Tbilisi city bus, the photo in color and the number of the Georgian Dream party (numbers on the ballot). On the left side is a black and white picture of a burnt out bus from Ukraine with the number of the liberal parties on it. Such photos with buildings, bridges, buses and so on, are all over the country. The message has been very sharp and pointed: vote for us to maintain peace and prosperity, vote for them and get what Ukraine has received.

A societal inoculation

Georgia has already gone through the march from Western-sponsored Maidan to War before. It happened with the coming to power of Mikheil Saakashvili in the so-called Rose Revolution. Back then in 2008, Russia had offered the 3+1 (Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia plus Russia) negotiations formula to form a confederacy and solve the frozen conflict with the two unrecognized republics. Saakashvili initially agreed to these talks, but Washington was not having any of it, because peace breaking out was anathema to Washington.

Then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ran to Tbilisi and weeks later, we got the 08/08/08 war. Luckily, the conflict was brief, sharp and disastrous for Saakashvili’s regime. Even though he was able to hang on to power for nearly two more years, the defeat led directly to his ouster. Remembering that low of lows in centuries of mostly good relations with Russia, the vast majority of Georgians are not ready to go down that death rabbit hole again. While the US and EU's preferred total breach with Russia future for their Caucasian colony of Armenia is bleak, Tbilisi under the Georgian Dream party's leadership is doing everything it can to avoid that fate. Georgia's big neighbor Turkey, although still a member of NATO, has taken notice, with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling party proposing U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act-modeled legislation that is similar to the law Georgia passed in May 2024.

Lead-up to the elections

Before the elections, Moscow had taken several friendly steps toward Tbilisi, including removal of all visa conditions for Georgians to work and stay in Russia. No longer are Georgians limited to 90 day visa-free stays, they can now live and work in Russia and attend university indefinitely. Hundreds of free seats at Russian universities have been opened for Georgian citizens. This is all leading to reinstatement of full diplomatic relations and a return to 3+1 negotiations to end the Abkhaz and South Ossetian impasse. As we've said in our videos, with an autonomous Abkhazia returning to a state of international recognition, the former Soviet Black Sea holiday destination could boom with foreign investment into its real estate and tourism sectors.

More quietly, in the days leading up to the election, Russian security services worked with their Iranian, Azeri and Turkish counterparts alongside the Georgian security service to make sure the 'Georgian Foreign Legion' rabid dogs fighting on the side of the Zelensky regime in Ukraine couldn't filter back into Georgia to commit terrorist acts.

The liberal opposition rallies

Four days before the elections, the liberals, led by the French rezident…er the Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, came together at Freedom Square and held a rally. Two days before elections, the ruling Georgian Dream held its own rally in the same square with twice the number of people in attendance. Thus, the stage was set for what we wrote would be an electoral battle royale for Georgia's future.

Part of the lead up to this was strict filtration at the airports, which led to us being delayed for an hour and a half upon entry while we were vetted. Many western journalists/propagandists, assorted LGBT+ activists and known Ukrainian agitators were denied entry. Even Russian journalists, myself included, spent hours waiting for ID checks at the passport controls—and we know lots of influential people in Georgia.

The elections go smoothly

The actual voting on the 26th went by quietly and efficiently. On the surface, if one were to walk down the streets, as this writer did, one would never guess that elections were underway. People were out and about, businesses were open, and the city of Tbilisi was buzzing along with Saturday shoppers.

There were a few instances of agitators starting fights at polling places, but other than that, all was quiet.

The liberal opposition ran fake news stories that they were winning the vote, that Georgian expat voters in Hong Kong all went for the liberals, which may have been true, but there are only a few hundred Georgians living in Hong Kong. Their news channels even ran stories that the liberals had won hands down, while voting was going on. Of course, this is direct interference in the voting process, but since it was done by the liberals, all is forgiven or never noticed. After all, that is how modern Western democracy “works", it's psyops and BS all the way down.

By evening, as the polls were closing and the counting started, the results came in. Georgia like many European countries has a minimum 5% vote threshold to get into parliament. As such, only 5 parties got in: Georgian Dream and the four parties in the liberal blocs. The Georgian Dream received 54% and the remaining 46% was split among the opposition.

In a preview of what may happen in the U.S. should Donald Trump win the electoral college, the liberals instantly began protesting the voting outcome and refused to accept the results.

What will follow? Join us in the next article to see what happened in the following week and what's likely to come for Georgia in 2025.

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