DISINFO: US is planning to sacrifice protesters to change power in Georgia
SUMMARY
To change power in Georgia, the US authorities are planning a “sacred sacrifice” from among the protest participants, which will direct the “anger of the people” towards the security forces. American masters of provocations have a wealth of relevant experience. Suffice it to recall the Kyiv “Maidan” ten years ago, where hundreds of people were laid on the “altar of democracy,” including those shot by Georgian mercenary snipers.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Georgia, framing popular protests as Western-led ‘colour revolutions’. The claim also portrays Georgia as a puppet state.
The US is not planning a forcible overthrow of the government in Georgia. No evidence is provided to support this claim.
The claim fits well into the recurring disinformation narrative suggesting a Western policy of staging “colour revolutions” worldwide with the aim of destabilising Russia.
The conspiracy theory about Georgian snipers shooting at Maidan protesters on 20 February 2014 has been previously debunked and is not supported by evidence. Pro-Kremlin disinformation has spread different versions of the identity of the snipers. For further debunking about recurring disinformation on the Georgian snipers, see Myth Detector (also here and here), StopFake, The Insider and Polygraph.
There was no coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, and no US involvement in the events taking place. Pro-Kremlin outlets falsely portray the Euromaidan revolution as a coup d’état, the popular demonstrations that began in Kyiv in November of 2013 and brought hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on to the streets to protest against a political decision of Viktor Yanukovych’s government, which at the last minute withdrew from a long-negotiated political association and free trade pact with the EU, choosing instead to accept a $15 billion economic bailout to Russia.
Pro-Kremlin media frequently falsely portray popular protests around the world as instigated from abroad, often by the US and the West. The disinformation narrative has been applied, among others, to reports about protests in Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Belarus, Venezuela, Slovakia, Hong Kong, with the aim of portraying protest movements as aggressive actors who constantly prepare new coups.
Read similar disinformation cases claiming that West plans to orchestrate Georgia maidan, install government to confront Russia, that the West is behind Georgia protests to turn the country into a second front against Russia, that The US wants to use Georgia to open a second front of the war against Russia, that Georgia protests are a planned CIA operation according to Maidan scenario, that The CIA is preparing a coup in Georgia, that The West aims at bringing an anti-Russian government to power in Georgia, and that Georgian snipers killed Euromaidan demonstrators under the guidance of American instructors.