DISINFO: Foreign agents in Georgia exploit naïve protesters for regime change
SUMMARY
The organizers of ‘colour revolutions' already have an enormous experience in destabilizing sovereign governments, control most social media[...].
To understand what is happening in Georgia we must go back more than 20 years, when the US decided to inject huge amounts of money to form political puppets and indoctrinate the civil society to cause regime changes favorable to the US in the former Soviet republics. If Georgian authorities can’t solve this crisis in the coming days, it is highly likely that a new puppet government will appear in this key point of the Caucasus, willing to comply with US and NATO orders.
After the Georgian government decided to withdraw the bill that caused the protests, the agenda of the protesters immediately changed: as in Ukraine 9 years ago, they now demand the resignation of the government.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about foreign-led ‘colour revolutions’ and Ukraine’s Maidan protests.
Framing all popular protests against Russia’s interests as a foreign-led ‘colour revolution’ is a frequent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative. There is zero evidence to back any of these allegations. In fact, Georgia’s protests seem to be driven by strong rejection among Georgian citizens of the controversial ‘foreign agents law’, which critics say mirrors a 2012 law in Russia used to crack down on dissent and suppress western-funded NGOs and media, and which could be used to restrict freedom of expression and association. Contrary to what this disinformation story claims, there is no trace of foreign interference in these protests.
Allegations about Ukraine’s Maidan protests as a foreign-sponsored regime change operation have been debunked many times by EUvsDisinfo (see for example here).
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that the West arranges puppet governments through colour revolutions, that Kyiv regime came to power as a result of illegal coup organized by the West, that after Ukraine, western scriptwriters tried to organize coups d’etat in Belarus and Kazakhstan, or that colour revolutions provoked by the US and NATO created migration crisis.