Polish President Andrzej Duda can’t be smeared as a “Russian agent” by any stretch of the imagination or suspected of even being remotely sympathetic to that country after all that he’s done to help Ukraine fight against it since 2022.
Interesting, considering that any election that the pro-western candidate didn't win is, by definition, illegitimate.
By the same token, if the pro-western candidate wins by a single vote, that that as the result of fraud, brikery and outright violence, then The Voice Of The People Has Spoken!
My SWAG is that Duda knows that the West has enough leverage over any Georgian government that they can just go to Plan B and get the same results.
Not necessarily. When Zelenskii was elected in 2019 over vociferous American objections, no color revolution was needed. The US had enough leverage over the regime in Ukraine to get the same results.
2. Western prosecutors suddenly start to take a keen interest in the financial activities of one or more Georgian politicians or the oligarchs sponsoring them
3. International financial governing bodies express dissatisfaction with Georgian progress in its anticorruption or anti money laundering activities, such that sanctions must regrettably be imposed
Well, yes and no: the BBC tried it on, on Monday night, showing a crowd of gazillions of protesters, who had turned out to show their disgust at Russia pushing anti-homosexual propaganda, etc.; à la acceptable media's usual means of using cameras skilfully to make a mountain out of a molehill and gazillions out of a couple dozen. They even put a caucasian woman (They never stretch as far as a white person with a penis any more.) on to boast proudly (Think, 'North Korean (stereotype) newsreader'!) how the Georgians had issued a stern warning to Russian interference. All day Tuesday there were reminders here and there of how Tbilisi's central square was going to be overwhelmed by protesters in the evening, so I eagerly awaited the news at 10:00 to see what they could come up with. I'd waited in vain: not a word more was said about Georgia, nor the resounding defeat the Georgian people had issued to the Russians and their despicable interference; no pictures, back to the normal LGBTQAna+l÷diversified equality presenter, no nothing. It would seem they'd never said anything about Georgia at all. I must have imagined it all!
"...he told the truth to his credit..."
The point is, if he's managed to climb his way to the top of the greasy pole of Poland's politics, he'd have to be very foolish indeed to rush in where even the BBC hadn't been stupid enough to tread (a second time). I don't feel he deserves TOO MUCH credit for failing to rush in where self-perceived angels had already realised what fools they've made of themselves.
"The message is that Duda should stop sharing foreign policy opinions that contradict the aforesaid Council’s."
Meeowww, scratch your eyes out! This Duda character's never even been a member of Bullingdon Club... Bloody cheek!
"...the Council is displeased..."
NEVER allow yourself to believe or forget that the Clubs and the Councils are anything but the BEST of friends. Many a fall from grace...
"...surprisingly had some very positive things to say..."
I do believe I smell a bit of proactive back-pedalling?
"Considering the OSCE’s politically inconvenient report..."
Yes, there's no doubt about it — like the BBC climbing down so unceremoniously — there's a whiff of fear in the air.
Maybe it's just the impending US election (nothing new or serious)?
Interesting, considering that any election that the pro-western candidate didn't win is, by definition, illegitimate.
By the same token, if the pro-western candidate wins by a single vote, that that as the result of fraud, brikery and outright violence, then The Voice Of The People Has Spoken!
My SWAG is that Duda knows that the West has enough leverage over any Georgian government that they can just go to Plan B and get the same results.
By 'Plan B', presumably, you mean 'Colour Revolution'?
That's just the point, you see, methinks they smell blood in the water and fear to dive in.
Not necessarily. When Zelenskii was elected in 2019 over vociferous American objections, no color revolution was needed. The US had enough leverage over the regime in Ukraine to get the same results.
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I don't get it.
1. Assassination
2. Western prosecutors suddenly start to take a keen interest in the financial activities of one or more Georgian politicians or the oligarchs sponsoring them
3. International financial governing bodies express dissatisfaction with Georgian progress in its anticorruption or anti money laundering activities, such that sanctions must regrettably be imposed
4. More than one of the above
Yeah, 1-4 above — that's all colour revolution.
It didn't cost them twenty years and five billion bucks, in 2015, for nothing!
No, as it leaves the same figurehead nominally in charge and requires no mass demonstrations.
"He could have lied..."
Well, yes and no: the BBC tried it on, on Monday night, showing a crowd of gazillions of protesters, who had turned out to show their disgust at Russia pushing anti-homosexual propaganda, etc.; à la acceptable media's usual means of using cameras skilfully to make a mountain out of a molehill and gazillions out of a couple dozen. They even put a caucasian woman (They never stretch as far as a white person with a penis any more.) on to boast proudly (Think, 'North Korean (stereotype) newsreader'!) how the Georgians had issued a stern warning to Russian interference. All day Tuesday there were reminders here and there of how Tbilisi's central square was going to be overwhelmed by protesters in the evening, so I eagerly awaited the news at 10:00 to see what they could come up with. I'd waited in vain: not a word more was said about Georgia, nor the resounding defeat the Georgian people had issued to the Russians and their despicable interference; no pictures, back to the normal LGBTQAna+l÷diversified equality presenter, no nothing. It would seem they'd never said anything about Georgia at all. I must have imagined it all!
"...he told the truth to his credit..."
The point is, if he's managed to climb his way to the top of the greasy pole of Poland's politics, he'd have to be very foolish indeed to rush in where even the BBC hadn't been stupid enough to tread (a second time). I don't feel he deserves TOO MUCH credit for failing to rush in where self-perceived angels had already realised what fools they've made of themselves.
"The message is that Duda should stop sharing foreign policy opinions that contradict the aforesaid Council’s."
Meeowww, scratch your eyes out! This Duda character's never even been a member of Bullingdon Club... Bloody cheek!
"...the Council is displeased..."
NEVER allow yourself to believe or forget that the Clubs and the Councils are anything but the BEST of friends. Many a fall from grace...
"...surprisingly had some very positive things to say..."
I do believe I smell a bit of proactive back-pedalling?
"Considering the OSCE’s politically inconvenient report..."
Yes, there's no doubt about it — like the BBC climbing down so unceremoniously — there's a whiff of fear in the air.
Maybe it's just the impending US election (nothing new or serious)?