Why Russia Might Invade Georgia (Again)
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When I was in Middle School, my teacher offered extra credit to whoever could name a country starting with the letter "G". I had watched the news the night before about Russia invading a country called Georgia so I named Georgia as my answer for my extra credit attempt. My teacher thought I was talking about an American state that happened to also have the name Georgia. She told me, "just because they talk with an accent doesn't mean they are a different country." I did not get credit.
Teachers don't usually know as much as they think they do.
that might prevent the US from getting too involved because they might accidentally bomb their own state.
@@josephg.3370 now now let’s not get frisky
@@josephg.3370you didn’t know how to spell. So calm down kid.
@@Apbricksquadcuh I fixed my big finger typos. That doesn't change the truth of what I said. Truth is objective and is not contingent on the RUclips software accepting my attempted corrections before posting.
I don't suppose this bill means that the Georgian Dream party will have to register as a foreign agent?
Maybe the French president of Georgia will need to go home
@@imahuman1996 such a dumb an cynical thing to say
The Dream Party was elected by Georgian people, not by the CIA!
@@eel845Soros and Macron's dogs must go
It applies to everyone else, but the Georgian government. Conveniently :)
I was in Georgia back in March. At some of the restaurants in the country, the receipts have a "fun fact" letter that says "Russia controls 20% of Georgia's territory".
I hope Georgias borders are restored! Love from 🇵🇱 to Georgians 🇬🇪
@@alexandernico8930 because:
1) Abkazia is unoffical russian territory and they can't win a war against russia.
2) It's not only Abkhazia and SouthOssetia that is occupied by Russia its also their own Goverment. Goverment controles the army which means they won't take it back.
@@Sp4nX383 Besides, an armed resolution would likely end in ethnic violence/cleansing, and many both in the UN and the West wouldn't look at that with good eyes; and with its proximity to Russia, Georgia NEEDS to be seen with good eyes if they want diplomatic/military support
@@alexandernico8930 there is also à big population différence between arzebajan (13M ish) and armenia (3M) its not faire at all
@@alexandernico8930Azerbaijan has huge hydrocarbon reserves and can afford to buy modern weapons. Georgia is quite poot and can't do it.
Aphxazians are related circassians?😂 Please don’t ever try educational content about Georgian ethnical groups,this videos provokes our political sovereignty and causing a lot of gap between us.
Apkhazians are Georgian native ethnical group,not Apsuas,they aren’t not even close with our homeland,Apsuas with Russians has occupied our territory.
Long Live Georgia 🇬🇪
♥️🫡
❤❤
Ucxo is everywhere ucxo, გენაცვალე!
I mean, linguistically the language is related to "Circassian" languages. It does not matter if it offends your political sensibilities, these are just linguistic and anthropological observations.
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“NGOs and media are under foreign influence” - the government under foreign influence 😂
@@castorcarvi It is not asking them to declare sources, but label themselves as foreign government funded. It didnt say 20% from foreign government, but foreign sources. Like if someone in georgia makes a video and it goes viral on youtube, that doesnt make them foreign funded, even if youtube is american. It is a terrible law, and im sure you would be unhappy if everytiktoker has to label themselves as funded by the chinese government.
@@castorcarvi because we(im georgian) don't trust government. talks that our government is pro russian is not new and we see what happened to Russia with this law(small adjustment after small adjustment and now people who "pursuing the interest of foreign power" can't do anything) they ALREADY did adjustments, at first this law was not suppose to affect individual persons, only NGOs but now it affects them too. TLDR the law would be good IF government was good but its not.
@@castorcarvi The US and most western countries have this law. Other foreign lobbying groups in the US have to register as foreign entities including Taiwan, Venezuelan opposition party, South Korea and other countries which control the congress. AIPAC is in a unique position where most the donors listed are Americans (who probably get their money from Israel).
But AIPAC is so powerful that anyone who criticises the way they operate gets ousted.
@@castorcarvi Look how it's been used in Russia. The ruling party has carteblanche to be prejudice towards companies who have International investment. It's just an authoritarian form of control that stifles economic growth.
Nice gymnastics
Just the day this video was uploaded a Chinese company has been officially approved as a sole investor of the Anaklia port project.
F
Interesting
Very interesting and not good for the Russians at all. It most certainly will be built now and Russia wont be able to do anything about it. Invading to stop it would piss off the Chinese even more and as of today, Russia is basicly a puppet of China. Russia needs China alot more than the other way araound. I think that China right now is just trying to build up as much leverage as possible against both West but mostly against Russia for the future. There are so many underlying conflicts brewing in the background between China and Russia.
The Chinese have a long history in genuinely helping build up infrastructure in Georgia so I agree with this decision. The grandiose Rikoti automagistral project is mostly done by them too, it would've otherwise taken decades to complete, but it's nearing completion.
They want multiple ways for their products to reach Europe.
as a Georgian, Apolitical nature of population is the scariest thing ever to happen to country.
2 things that happened in Georgia during protests:
1) MFA operators would use foreign numbers to call people who took part in protests and start swearing at them threatning to rape their parents and asking why are they taking action in anti-govermental protests.
2) MFA created Database which as they say: will contain data about people who support "war" in country.
(According to govermnet you support war if you are not Apolitical)
"According to the last census conducted in Soviet Georgia in 1989, the population of Abkhazia totaled about 525,000 people. As for the ethnic composition, the largest groups were Georgians (239,872 people - 45.7% of the population), Abkhazians (93,267 people - 17.7%), Armenians (76,541 people - 14.6%) and Russians (74,913 people - 14.3%)"
The ethic map in 8th minute is kinda misleading. You mention the correct numbers shortly after though. Nice video overall.
Russia is an extremely strong and influential country so it can annex lands if they want.
Otherwise what you gonna do, to fight a huge nuclear superpower?
@@Maxhartmann2024 There would not be independent Finland if you'd never fight against overpowered enemy. But let us hope we don't have to fight again. Hello from Finland! We are glad to have friends within EU and NATO!
@@Mrvanish93 the only reason why Soviets didn’t invade Finland once again (after 1945) is a special treaty which was pretty beneficial for Kremlin. It doesn’t mean that USSR wasn’t able to, despite the disastrous loses during winter war.
Glad that you guys have allies, though Russia has no more interests in Finland.
@@Maxhartmann2024 what we're gonna do...? I don't know, but I can say that there are options and accepting to live in Mordor isn't one of them.
@@Maxhartmann2024 Call Russia's bluff as they can't afford a nuclear war.
Just wanted to say that while Saakashvili did lose the 2012 presidential election, he did not lose to Ivanishvili. Giorgi Margvelashvili won the Georgian presidential election and remained president until 2018 as an independent--though as a part of the Georgian Dream coalition--but slowly became more critical of the Georgian Dream's consolidation of power and ultimately did not seek re-election. Ivanishvili became the Prime Minister of Georgia in 2012, not president. Doesn't change the fact that the Georgian Dream party controls, but there is a slight error in elected positions here.
Vaime giorgis arseboba saertod damaviwyda. Imena nothingburger presidenti
America has the exact same bill. Russia took the law word for word from the American law😂😂😂 Its easy to fool u types. You all want to be brainwashed
@@RUTHLESSambition5 Certain Americans are easy to fool, this is an obvious move towards neutrality. Which the US deep state was salty about enough in Ukraine to kick off the current fiasco there.
Well at least it wasn't Dzhugashvili that won.😏
@@gremlinton9815 marto bolos amoigo xma maqamde dumilshi iyo
As a Georgian this is calming…
Must be f***** being neighbor to Russia… Having to be scared of war like it’s the middle ages. How some countries like India can justify this behavior insane to me.
As a Turkish, this isn't calming at all!
Having Russia as a neighbor must feel scary. Always a chance of getting into a war like it’s the middle ages. How people justify their behavior is insane to me
What? That Mother Russia plans to “defend” you?
As an Iowan, ... Hi!
@Gattsu needs to watch this
Real
Looking for this comment
@@raymondleung6522I came here just to comment Gattsu
Hes a cuck for the EU and NATO. I used to enjoy watching his videos but the guy is just pathetic now
this felt like they took quite a few pages from what Gattsu has said
As a peanut farmer from Georgia I am deeply concerned....
the vultures are on you´r air
Did Russia invade Georgia twice in the last 30 years as this video states?
As a habitual Snickers consumer; should I also be concerned?
Is it advisable to stock up before any shortages kick in?
Yes, just google it man. @@utkur765
Protect the peaches!!!
the title isn't helping our constant anxiety at all ;)))
The song used in this video is "Blue Lantern" - Yi Nantiro in case anyone was interested. Not sure why he didn't credit it.
Thanks, and what is the name of the song used in his video about Poland?
@@michaelderose3551Darude - “Sandstorm”
Don't care, didn't ask.
@@Reshiram32Zekrom23 Aint no one care about your opinon lil boy😊
@@MontgomeryGator-q1z don't care. Didn't ask
Sakartvelo mentioned 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪
არ ვიცი კარგია თუ არა რომ იმ ვიდეოში გვახსენეს
YESSS!!!!🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪
@@გიორგი-უ4ყ its always a good thing when corruption is exposed
კარგ კონტექსტში მაინც იყოს ლოლ
Gamarjoba! I'm from Ukraine and I'm wondering If you really prefer when your country's called Sakartvelo instead of Georgia? I heard it from ukrainians, but I don't have any friends from Georgia to confirm it. I would love to know more about it
Have to say, I kinda think it’s a good idea that media organizations have to publish their funding, for all sides
It's not about publishing it's about suppressing them. If it was about publishing nobody would have any problems. If you want more info look for attacks on opposition already taking place. Masked things used
I know right really question Russia and west intention aren’t pure and lair want just control. How does open media threat western value simple money. I truly believe Address climate change majority modern geopolitics tension or warfare. Also fuck up moment west and Russia doing “peacekeeper” through violence is most dystopian shit I ever heard.
In theory yes, the problem is the reality of how that bill is designed and how it can be used to suppres information.
All you have to do is go look at the Russian law it was cloned from.
@@libraryofpangea7018 true
@@libraryofpangea7018 could be. All I’m thinking is it would be a really nice thing to know when you ready news as to who funded the paper that wrote it. Or the journalists. Maybe if it were all I. The open people could judge better what the bias is
A chinese company just won the bid to build the port in Anaklia
and what about ken tucky?
watch out for those debt-traps
so? look at how chinese treat africans.
@@Jart988 Like the International Monetary Fund?
@@saint2867 The IMF doing shady things like that doesn’t magically make it good when China also does it.
This guy is the reason why I love geography.
it's a decent video but dewd, get a life.
this is geopolitics, not geography. does your parents know your skipping classes.
@Davidsleith7222. Do your parents know that you’re missing spelling and grammar class? (What exactly was so triggering about OP’s post?)
Geopolitics not geography
u mean geopolitics?
I like reading history about wars, I do not want to become a part of one.
Wars have always been bad, we really shouldn't glorify mass death in state(eltes or rich ppl) land acquisition. 😅
Me Georgian reading the title of the video 💀
Hey, I'm against censorship but I'm still confused about something. Is it easy to get info about who's funding NGOs, companies and politicians there? Because it isn't easy here.
As a Canadian, I was like wtf then I saw the thumbnail and was like ohh.
@@johncrocker4209
For the public, it's so-so. Large NGOs usually declare their sources of funding on their websites. However, for the government, it's 100% clear, as such entities are legally obliged to share their full financial statements annually with tax authorities. The Foreign Agent Law (renamed as the Foreign Transparency Law) is primarily to label individuals working in such fields as agents. More importantly, it gives the government the authority to forcibly shut down their activities for six months based on an anonymous tip under the name of investigation. Additionally, if NGOs have any databases of citizens, these become accessible to the government and can potentially be misused.
The second law, which wasn't mentioned in the video, is the Offshore Law. This law significantly reduces transfer taxes and eases inspections on funds from offshore accounts. It is intended to benefit Ivanishvili and other Russian oligarchs who are under sanctions, facilitating money laundering activities here.
How about not be anti-Russian and living in peace with Russia, is that too hard to do? It seems to be, as you obviously didn't learn from the Ukraine example with waving the Ukrainian flag.
Lucky you.
thanks for this video that at lest give some light about why me and so many other families leave Abkhazia to save their lives and lost all of their homes and belongings when the Abkhazia/Georgia war started, At 1990 i was 4 year's old and one day i was playing on the balcony then i see and hear a helicopters and soldiers with tanks comming and start the killings, So after 1 hour my mother just take me and a backpack and little money that se manage to find at lest for the food for the journey to greece, I dont even know how she managed all that i only know and remmember that we run at night and was hiding in forests and brushes and we was 2 or 3 days in a small boat-ship with many more peole and earplanes bombing and shouting at us with bad sea and stormy night, I never see again my father, He was at work the day my mother take me and we run he say to my mom you take the kid and go gracce to some family we have ther and i will try come later, Il will find you, many years later when i was 15 my mother tell me that he was killed one week latter, I dont know about russia or georgia i only know that all my life change before even started we lost every thing from this war, money home car papers belongings people we love my very first friends from pre school and neighborhood every thing, And many they're lives people that don't do anything to no one that don't want war but a good life and peaceful one, Am almost 40 years old now and i still have not manage even to visit Abkhazia after all that year's, I really hate them all.
I hope you will manage to go back once... We will take that land back!
Kinda weird that a bill to show foreign influence in media would be called "the Russian bill". Won't that affect Russia too?
Seems like it'll only affect the people who control the media
Selective enforcement. Of course it would effect the party in power, but of course people allied with that party will just ignore the law and not face consequences.
It also serves as a tool to simply get insight into everybody finances. Oh you do something and you don't want to tell use all your internal information. Must be foreign terrorists then.
It will affect those that go against the government. 'Media' includes posting comments on RUclips and any newspaper or tv-station that isn't already controlled by government would have to be very concerned about who they got their advertisements from.
Also the US has exactly the same law e.g. Tiktok and China
I was wondering when this would come up. This is the issue that the global West seems to have forgotten.
Yeah I didn’t know any of this was happening until the protests broke out. I was under the assumption that Georgias government would be supportive of Ukraine for obvious reasons. 🤦🏾♂️
@@ShabazzTBL the people are so thats atleast good
No, the West is forcing it again!
It won't, at least in Western media. Georgian was being used and abandoned by NATO in 2008, now some native Georgian still believe they can join EU someday, It will never happen.
@@孙愉悦 they want to join nato to be safe from Russia. They've been trying that for hundreds of years and they know that eu doesnt care THAT much but we're desperate here. If only we were neighbors with another freaking normal country who doesn't have a tyrant hell bent on invading lands.
I don’t understand why the police are so complicit in these scenarios… is everyone in law enforcement automatically sympathetic to authoritarian rule and anti democracy?
Or is the population not as against these policies as reported?
If they don't work they can't feed their kids, Georgia is still quite poor
Because police is educated on how americans install their puppets in governments around the world. Democracy is the easiest regime to infiltrate.
The first bit. Cops exist to enforce the rules which are set by the authorities and they’re paid by the authorities. Cops have your best interest at heart only insofar as those authorities do. So in most places and circumstances, they don’t.
For the last 30Y, so called civilized democracies killed millions of people and destroyed several regions. Stop believing that West is balanced and responsive system. As of now, West is controlled by deep state of neocons who ready to destroy entire world for own benefits.
Cops are thugs who will brutalize the citizenry if not kept rigidly in check.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Russia has shown that the CSTO ia just there so that other countries help Russia not the other way round. Once Azerbaijan invaded parts of Armenia, Armenia tried to acrivate article 6 (mutual protection), Russia refused.
so Armenia itself recognized that it occupied territories from Azerbaijan when it joined the CSTO. In your opinion, we should fight with our ally for territories that even the occupier recognized as occupied
@@kutuzovmikhailillarionovic2120 In 2021 and 2022, Azerbaijan invaded Armenia's sovereign territory, bombed Armenian cities, and occupied approximately 250 square kilometers of territory (which it still holds). Russia did nothing.
Why Armenia didn't find then? Did it want Russia to protect it from another Russia's ally?
Also, why did Pashinyan recognise Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijan territories?
No they didn't. Armenian prime minister said himself that they didn't ask for protection
@@rebeli-argum He said the opposite
excellent work as usual...no other channel made me understand the importance of maps, the terrain is the story
As Georgian, it's not so comfortable to read the name of my country in that kind of video
Went Georgia last year! Beautiful place!
you go to kentucky? kenturkey?
The music in the background is distracting
The “Soviet Government” that incorporated Abkhazia and S Ossetia into Georgia was in fact one man - Joseph Stalin, himself a Georgian from Gori. Stalin did this in other Soviet republics as well in order to dilute the ethnic majority and prevent separatist movements from emerging. S Ossetians and Georgians didn’t just “start fighting” in 2008. Saakashvilli ordered troops to forcibly seize the territory and launched a surprise attack, killing several Russian peacekeepers (there with a UN mandate) in the process. These are just a few of the small details that were omitted here, but such omissions matter. The most salient one is the fact that the Georgian law in question is modeled on a similar U.S. law that has been on the books for decades.
That is of course AFTER two Georgian peacekeepers were killed by the EID and repeated shellings of Geo villages and the head of peacekeeping mission kulakhmetov, who was BTW russian declaring that he lost control over situation on the ground. Yes, ommissions do matter
And "Russian law" has nothing to do with FARA.
Because of the BIG SCARY RED ARROWS that's why
BEEEG RED SCARY ARROWS
Putin watching this video: "You know what. Lets remake the 2008"
Russia cant match the power of georgian people
Nah, Russia did pulverise Georgia, twice. And the latter lost Abkhazia and South Ossetia as a result.
Their only hope was for NATO to help them, which wasn't existing when the invasion happened.
@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female They are "a part of georgia" but russia controls them, so in reality they are a part of russia
Drones,,,,, how easy to counter tanks and infantry with drones. Russia didn't pay attention to the Azerbaijan & Armenians. It took Ukraine decimating Russia's military before the Kremlin finally paid attention and still not well focused.
@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female
"officially" aka in georgian dreams only. All bark no bite. Like Armenia dreaming of Karabakh or Ukraine dreaming of Crimea or Donetsk.
Thank you for your content. I love how you try to stay unbiased as possible and bring the facts. I preach others to watch your informative videos. Thank you for bringing change through transparent information.
Transparent information? In what way? He doesn't even list his sources... That's the opposite of transparency. The only thing he is transparent about is his sponsors that he has no problem advertising as much as possible.
@@goldbullet50 hey look your comment is helping boost his content too! Thanks for helping spread transparent information goldbullet!
@@ExoCryptic-Exo Just say it: You don't care how transparent any of this entertainment is. Just video essays that anyone could make. Just monetized entertainment with no educational or academic weight.
@@goldbullet50 im glad you help promote educational content my friend
@@ExoCryptic-Exo You should see a doctor. Problems with thinking are not a joke
Watching again for the algorithm that gets you paid. Damn the man!
neat, but really, he doenst need the help, he is a large channel - 7.5m subs for godsake.
@@xBINARYGODx he made a complaint earlier about being censored
you go back to kentucky, tennessee
As a Georgian, I am happy that you’ve made a video about my country, საქართველოს გაუმარჯოს ;)
Long live Georgia as a part of Russia.
@@RussianOccupier190
Long live Georgia, as an independent country 🇬🇪🤘
@@Clock_Man_2763 nope as a part of Russia🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
@@RussianOccupier190
Nope, as a free and an independent country, Georgia has been here for far longer than Russia, Georgia has an unique language and an unique alphabet as well 🇬🇪🇬🇪
@@RussianOccupier190 long live Russia as a part of great China
I just discovered this channel… I’ve never subscribed to a channel so fast!
‘Countries are more concerned about capabilities and not intent’
I love how realism framework slowly gains momentum.
Realism is a junk science spouted by the biggest fools in International Relations theory
The bill actually sounds pretty reasonable. Why would a rational person object to NGOs having to reveal who they're working for?
Because in 2017 russia used this bill to suppress opposition. This bill in georgia can also be used like that. Anyone who has a foreign band is funded from a foreign country loses some rights. Its is not a good law in the hands of corrupt politicians. Nobody wants this fkn law
Because the people who they are working for or getting most of their money from is not from the people they are protesting against most NGOs are highly likely funded by the EU and the US as we see these people protesting ha
It does. The trick is, how they use it. A similar bill was passed here in Hungary, opposition media outlets, NGO-s (and maybe the CEU too, im not sure) came under constant harrassment and intimidation shortly after by governmental organisations.
Im not against fair and square financial audits, but there is a clear abuse to silence opposing voices in the country to this day. And the law is written vaguely enough to allow such bullying.
Maybe the situation is similar in Georgia.
I think you hit all the talking points. Bravo 👏
19:46 Two million Soviet casualties is incorrect. The Soviets suffered little over a million casualties.
Great Job! So wonderfully and thoroughly informative! Thanks!
Nice and informative video! Keep it up
Everytime I watch RLL I feel like the President getting a briefing by an advisor. I leik it
Fact 1. In the morning of August 7, 2008, the regular non-peacekeeping Russian military forces violated Georgia’s border through the Roki Tunnel and invaded the country.
Fact 2. Georgia's started its military operation in Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia in response to the Russian aggression the night of August 8. Russian armed forces had invaded Georgia at least 19-20 hours prior to the start of this Georgian operation.
Fact 3. According to the international law, an invasion by the armed forces of one nation into the territory of another, without the consent of the latter, constitutes an act of aggression. According to the same international law, the nation against which such aggression is being performed has a right to self-defence.
We defend our land, everyone knows that Russia started planning this military intervention long before, after summit in Bucharest, which had declared that Georgia and Ukraine would be NATO members. And our partners accused us for starting this war. I don't know, if west were more strict (put sanctions and political pressure) on Russia, when it took the South Ossetia (and don't blamed war on us) and Crimea, maybe there would not be so mush casualty in Ukraine now.
Russia opening a secondary front goes against the last 200 years of military tactical history.
It's not "Say Han". Ceyhan is pronounced as "Jay Han"
Should've opted to use "j" instead of "c" for the [dʒ] sound. Dedicating "j" for the [ʒ] sound, which is only present in words of foreign origin, seems a bit wasteful. Now, you have to suffer forever.
And here I've been, pronouncing it as "Kay Han".
@@inkerilain lol At least the language is 100% phonetic unlike others. Makes it easy
C = Je Ç= Ch and J= sounds like the 'g' in mirage.
I know, I speak Turkish (but not natively). I think it's good that Turkish has a phonetic alphabet.
Let's look at the letter frequencies in Turkish:
Ç: 1.35%
C: 1.12%
J: 0.16%
To me, it makes more sense to use diacritic-less letters for more frequent sounds, so:
[tʃ]: C instead of Ç
[dʒ]: J instead of C
[ʒ]: J̌ (maybe) instead of J
Either way, the "damage" is already done, so it's just theoretical.
no its pronounced general E. LEE
Please stop rotating and tilting the maps. If the map is rotated please put a North indicator on it. Really you don't need those techniques to make it more engaging, a flat map pointed north is cleaner and better.
It’s incredible that Russia can have such geography to drive it to control as much territory as possible by any means possible.
Its kind of a wild spiral. Russia sees its biggest risk as it's vast borders, and it seeks to resolve that by... expanding its borders
What I want to know is what army they are so afraid of that they are worried about controlling mountain passes? Seems like they have a military that is technologically advanced enough that marching routes shouldn't matter very much. They're not the goddamned Roman Legion.
I don't know how they maintain control of so much territory. There are so many diverse and isolated people in Russian territory who are nothing like the people in Moscow.
@@poorsvids4738 they put ethnic Russians in those territories to run everything during the imperial and soviet eras. That's why Transnistria is the way it is, it's an example of that strategy on the far side of Ukraine from actual Russian land.
Russian should be concerned with China and its relationship with the Russian Federation Countries bordering China. Kazakhstan and the others are warming up to China and China wants Siberia/Outer Manchuria back.
You're my favorite RUclips by far. I have no idea how you put out such complex and well thought out, lengthy videos nearly every week, but keep up the good work!
@@vsr3777so which bit is the propaganda? Refute the points instead of espousing ad hominem
@vsr3777 This channel sounds like another CIA mouthpiece trying to make everyone look bad but the US.
First rows on a city protest….women… first rows in war..men
Wait I just realize half as interesting and real life lore have the same voice in their videos does that mean. They’re the same video
This video breaks down a lot of things I was not aware of. Great job
Russia and Georgia are adopting a law on controlling foreign influence.
The West: this is undemocratic, a restriction on freedom of speech and press censorship.
Also, the USA: They were the very first in the world to adopt this law in 1938 and actively use it to this day, censoring all foreign media, including European ones. This is considered democratic.
In simple terms, an independent country will never allow itself to be influenced even by a friendly country because it is INDEPENDENT. Now look at the EU countries, which claim that such a law is not needed, and at the USA, which has this law. Who among them is independent and the master, and who is a servant actively promoting foreign influence in their country.
Why didn't the author of the video mention that the same bill has been in the USA since 1938, and in the UK since 2023, and in Israel since 2016?
No one talks that this bill exists for 50 years allready in USA...
It's different one. Pls do research before commenting
Here in Sweden, "taking of foreign support" is a criminal offense, which can land someone in prison for up to two years.
@@JohanDanielsson8802 i do not know what is worse ,this type of law or openly admiting that you are a foregin agent...in my country (serbia) it is a open topic nobody hides that they are using NGO s as foregin goverment tools
I don’t understand why this law is a bad thing? Shouldn’t people have a right to know who influencing businesses?
Because its hypocritical in nature and wont apply to russia puppets that rolled this law out in the first place
he literally said why in the vid
Coz they are npcs that see Russia has this law, so the law is russian! Russia BAD!
Despite US has such a law from like a previous century and every self-respecting country must have this law
Ты задаёшь слишком много вопросов. Не надо сомневаться, просто верь😁 этот закон очень плохой и ужасный. Да, такие же законы есть в США, Франции, Турции, но для Грузии этот закон очень вреден😊
@@IvGor ознакомься с законом в сша для начала, а потом сравни с российским и тебе все станет понятно почему он не просто плох а помойка
Every country should and mostly like have this type of law.
Your maps are incorrect….
Those who occupied now Abkhazia are Apsuas, not Abkhazs.
Abkhaz is ethnically Georgians.
Apsuas are from north Caucasus, like Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia.
And your numbers about Abkhazia war is incorrect:
Forcibly moved - more than 350,000.
Killed - more than 10,000.
How could the Abkhazians drive 350,000 Georgians out of Abkhazia when the 1989 census reported only 240,000 Georgians, Mingrelians and Svans combined? I know this will probably start an argument, but I cannot understand why people falsify those numbers when state run, pre war, unbiased numbers said otherwise.
@@filipsykora9506They remove not only Georgians. Greeks, Jews, Armenians, Russians, Ukrainians. There was also some Estonians. Even some Apsuas fled from war to other parts of Georgia.
Some of Russians and Armenians returned afterwards.
FYI: not Mingrelians, it's Megrelians. Also Megrelians and Svans are Georgians.
Levanika where did you find that information? Bro just asking out of curiosity- numbers and the people currently in Abkhazia
Fair enough.
Just want to mention that there has been no "Russian law" for 30 years and Georgia could not get into NATO even though needed the most and tried the hardest. And it is super clear that Georgia can not deal with Russia alone.
West has nothing to be proud about when it comes to Ukraine and Georgia.
The US has a very similar law, actually it served as a model for the Georgian bill.
It’s called the FARA act
Why do I feel like Russia is watching this
You're probably paranoid
Eh
wee ar wotchin, очень внимательно
because we are always watching
Governments are always watching 💀
The USA has exactly the same law to ban foreign influence
I really enjoy your content, however, i will say i think it's unfortunate when speaking about Maidan that you don't mention the audio clip of Victoria Nuland (under secretary of state at the time) picking out the future Ukrainian government cabinet, basically proving that Maidan was a CIA organized coup. As an American it serves no one to not recognize the role the US played in escalating tensions with Russia in the last 15 years. Furthermore, there was a WSJ article speaking about the cia safehouses that were discovered in Eastern Ukraine, further proof of that fact. To act like this is all Russian Imperialism is honestly silly.
It is Russian imperialism and the Nuland tapes (yes I've listened to them) are cherrypicked out of context. If it's not Russian imperialism, why did Russia annex all of its' current conquests in Ukraine a year ago? Ukraine is not a threat to Russia, never was.
This is a russian bot spreading propaganda on behalf the russian goverment ignore this comment.
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The annoying trend of tensions and issues affecting several regions of the world are noticably and continuously stemming from a specific source: Russia
My friend from Abkhazia thanking Russia for saving his life. He was cought up in the conflict and had grey hair as 12 year old boy as geogian army put all his family to the wall with the guns.
@@nataliasalmanova6020 про распятых мальчиков еще расскажи
@@bot_detector ты передергиваешь. Называешь очень гипертрофированную историю, которой не было и тем самым говоришь, что и этой не было. Но вот было такое. Я не демонизирую грузин, они прекрасные люди и хотела лишь сказать, что ситуации и истории людей разные бывают.
У меня про семьи на Донбассе, часть за Россию, часть против. И у каждого будет ужасная история, которая отражает их позицию. Что же мне им говорить, что того или иного события в их жизни не было и надо вставать на ту или иную сторону? Это газлайтинг какой-то.
Уверена, что у кого-то есть схожая история из Абхазии, но с другой армией. Это не отменяет историю моего друга.
In 30 years time, a small Russia child will ask their Grandma why every country they touch hates them. I hope Russians are able to accept this.
Russia invaded Goergia many years ago because it wanted to protect it's stratgegic interest against nato expansion. And also because Osetia and Abkazie wanted to be part of Russia.. Georgia is having good economic benifit from it's proximity with Russia. Nothing in the west can replace these benifits. So...
Go ask Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania how much good comes from EU and NATO membership.
Russia is just grabbing land to rebuild their empire.
They find fake excuses to justify their murder of people
@@iQKyyR3Kand how many fake excuses found the US to attack Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Serbia
Wait, doesn't EU have similar law?
Yea but SIMILAR this one is different
As a citizen of a EU country (Sweden), I have never heard of such an EU law. I think it is up to EU memberstates, to have their own laws about this. However, Swedish law is even harsher than the Georgian law in this case. "Taking of foreign support" is a criminal offense here in Sweden, and can land someone in prison for up to two years here.
Not only many EU countries have exact laws. USA has exactly same law. Little bit more liberated tho.
@@MikheilBiganishvili copium
I like how western media sphere simply ignoring the fact that Georgia didn't control this territories in the first place after the Soviet Union had collapsed. And even when Georgia was Soviet Republic both Abkhazia and South Osetia had Autonomous Republic status.
Nobody wants to be part of Russia anymore.
As a Georgian, I,dont understand, same bill works in USA, GB, France, Israel and so on in much harsher way, so how transparency of NGO's and Media is not compatible with EU values and principles?
And yes, we are trying to build normal relations with russia, We are not in Nato or EU to be protected and we dont want to get Ukrainian scenario in Georgia.
I don’t love anything as much as Putin loves a breakaway region of a country
Сколько стран сша разрушили?
@@павелмарченков-й2ъ Average Russian bringing up stuff about USA when it's not even mentioned, now let me ask you a question, how do you know if he likes USA and why you Russian are coping every time when someone starts speaking about Russia you guys bringing up USA, like you guys are innocent
@@Hope14675 пёс западный не вякай тут
The NGO are protesting the law that would expose them. A similar law that we have in the US.
Fun fact: US has a similar law and the EU proposes having a registry of entities financed from outside the union for all its members.
This is a russian bot spreading propaganda on behalf the imperialist russian goverment to justify the conquering of indepandent countries around russia to make them apart of russia sphere of influence by force. please ignore this comment above me. (also this isn't the same law get better talking points from the kremlin russian bot)
@@deleted5229 опровергни факты 😃
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@@deleted5229you still have time to delete this before we find out that the FARA act exist
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Thank you very much
I don't see anything inherently wrong in knowing where the funding for certain organizations is coming from... it's how that information get used that's the issue; to crack down on political opponents. No harm in having the information. My 15 second take on this.
Russia has nuclear weapons, so if Georgia became a member of NATO and NATO had the intention of invading Chechnya and Dagestan through Georgia, then Russia could've just threatened to nuke them. The thing you said about the geographical capability and the intent applied until nuclear weapons were invented and changed the game. During the Cold War, the Western bloc and the Eastern bloc were constantly ready to go to war with each other, and yet they didn't, because of the mutually assured destruction. When the Cold War ended, the mutually assured destruction did not. If anyone were to invade Russia and threaten something important to the existence of Russia, say their access to the Caspian Sea, like you said, and their conventional forces couldn't handle it, nukes would fly. This Russian propaganda narrative that Russia felt threatened by NATO, or as some have called it "The Great NATO Sob Story" has been disproven, even in practice, most recently with Finland and Sweden joining NATO without any consequences coming from Russia, so I urge you to stop repeating it.
why would nato ever invade chechnya and dagestan
CCCP ❤
The video omits that same type of law exists in the US, not only Russia.
In the EU as well
Yeah this is weird
Russians literally copy this law from US
And he also did not say that Russia did not attack Georgia, Georgia attacked South Ossetia. And the UN found Georgia guilty. But this is not a convenient truth, which is poorly suited for propaganda. 😃
Because it's not the same law
as soon as i saw the video title I got even more scared cuz somebody thinking the same (says a russian living in Georgia for almost 5 years)
Fun fact: Georgia was the first one to start a fire in 2008, not Russia.
It was recognized by United Nations, btw.
I do not support current Russian foreign policy, but facts are facts.
Let's keep our heads cool and our decision-making process fair.
Also lets not forget how UN classified it as a retaliation to Georgia being bombed by Russian backed separatists and it was Russia that got blamed in the end, with Russia having to pay reparations - which they obviously do not
it was funny 😂 russians bombed georgian controlled villages for days before war was errupted and our gov asked russians what is going on and answer was we don’t know who is bombing georgian villages 😂 good try buddy
Of course we started it. No one cared and once again eu bought russias lies cause they didn't care about georgia and the rest of the world did too
Доказать дуракам, что они дураки не возможны, лучше оставить их в неведении.
@@jonjondi3845 @jonjondi3845 sooo... your expertise is better than UN's? And you don't agree with international institutes? It is hard to counter that point of view
It is also identical to US law about foreign agents.
No it is not, stop putting Russian BS in here. US law applies solely to lobbyist entities which lobby with US congress, Russian law applies to anybody, whom Russian government deems foreign agent.
Does the US law make an exception for Israel?
BRO IM GEORGIAN AND A BIG FAN OF YOU
We had a Georgian exchange student staying with us last year. One thing he mentioned that the Russian troops in South Ossetia were fond of doing on a daily basis: They would pick up the fence line or other border markers and then literally move it about a meter or two further into Georgian territory. While it's a seemingly inane activity on the one hand, it's fairly telling of Russia's long-term ambitions.
We all know who the true leader of Georgia is: Gattsu
I still don't see anything wrong with this law
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If their government is going against the will of so much of the population, and against their own constitution that much, then that government should be overthrown by the citizens themselves.
Crowd is stupid. You couldn't run even a small business if you let your employees to make decisions.
@@Max_Jacoby citizens who vote for the government are nowhere near the same thing as employees.
@@isaacbrown4506 of course running a business is not the same as running a country. It's much much much more easier! But even this simple task will fail miserably if you let your employees decide how your business must be governed.
@Max_Jacoby my point was that the citizens who vote for their public government have a valid say in how their country is run, that's the point of democracy. A privately owned business is entirely different and not even comparable to a democratic government. You can't equate apples and oranges 🙄
It feels like you underestimate how easily crowd can be manipulated
what are you talking about? Most other countries have the same law, including the USA. This is not a new invention
Couple political points. Saakashvili is regarded by many as pro-West, and current government to be pro-Ruuzzian. Both are debatable (at least). Some facts about Saakashvili, his uncle Temur Alasania was (?) KGB general and the left hand of KGB head Andropov; Saakashvili's minister of economy Bendukidze was a member of Putin's chamber of commerce and economy; Saakashvili's minister of foreign affairs was also ex-KGB Grigol Vashadze who was holding Ruzzian citizenship saying that he was proud, mind that he said this after the war in 2008; Vashadze also ran for presidency in 2019; in 2010 Saakashvili unilaterally lift visa requirements for Ruzzians and was greeting them at the occupied "boarder"; Saakashvili before the war renamed Kodori region into Upper Abkhazia and created the alternative government for Samachablo region (which after the war was named South Ossetia in every legal document), giving Ruzzia another reason to "Unite Abkhazia and Ossetian people".... does all this say anything?
Also, Saakashvili ministers sold all major strategic energy supply companies and facilities to Ruzzian state companies; GWE companies and over 50 hydroelectric dums. His another minister who is convicted felon, in 2010 and 2011, during his yearly declaration, said that they are happy for Ruzzian investments and that money does not smell... :D This guy, Vano Merabishvili, is now participating in different summits talking about how Ukraine should act and how everyone should block trade with Ruzzia :D
The same exact thing for the ukrainain orange revolution, until the Euromaidan the same people who made the revolution had many businesses in Russia, mostly oil business. And then suddenly the war happened. Who knows. Maybe they're just making a war to get european money, to be sent to russia.
@@alekhandro89 They always played a double game. Most post soviet countries are incredibly corrupt. At the same level as Venezuela.
excellent content
Russia did not invade Georgia, Georgia attacked south ossetia which caused a russian response.
I served with Georgian soldiers in Iraq. They loved Americans. They had very little but wanted to share what they had to show their friendship.
Second video in a row that did not mention the Bab El-Mandeb Strait
This video contains a lot of incorrect information about the political context and recent history of Georgia. Saakashvili was not a pro-Western leader, and the Georgian Dream is not a power controlled by Russia. Fact is that Saakashvili celebrated the victory in the Rose Revolution together with Igor Ivanov, who was then the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia. I'll leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions
This is a fact that the controlled media desperately tries to hide, but there are people who were alive back then and do not have the memory of a fish. When evaluating all of Saakashvili's decisions, any competent analyst will understand whose interests and influences he was actually serving.
I’m starting to think you mispronounce stuff for engagement… which I understand I am now providing but still. Tibilissy? Cmon man
That’s hard to pronounce for a lot of languages. I guess that’s the reason it’s called “Tiflis” in some countries
That T' sound is tough for many westerners. I've struggled with თ and ყ and წ and ჭ for eeeeever. I think I finally got 'em, but I had to live in GE and be exposed to the language through my GF and our friends in Tbilisi to start getting the hang of it
dammit, now they know ;)
Do you pronounce all French cities same as French people?
tibussy
4:45 how can you be so shameless to flip this into "this benefits Russia" lmao, the Georgian government is literally saying "the US is actively sponsoring subversion in our country" (The US sponsoring a coup d'etat? How surprising!) and you don't even waste a second trying to determine if this is true or not, you only care about how this affects Russia, you don't actually give a shit about Georgia.
Maybe the reason for Georgia's increase in trade w/ Russia has more to do with the fact that Russia is GEORGIA'S BIGGEST NEIGHBOR and therefore will always be Georgia's biggest trading partner, or maybe it has to do with the idiocy of sanctions and how they force countries to find loopholes around them through middle-man countries like Georgia or Kazakhstan, instead of some conspiracy theory about how Georgia's ruling party is actually a puppet for Putin or whatever.
But no, not only do you not mention this, but you talk as if Georgia & its government are doing something wrong by acting according to their trade interests hahaha you actually want Georgia to be poorer, have bad relations with its biggest neighbor, and be grateful with the West because of it! Who needs enemies when you have allies like these? You also don't talk about the Georgian government's suppression of Abkhazian and Ossetian identities, which of course you just discard as "Russian propaganda".
Relax, this channel never cared about understanding of international politics or economy. Just farming ad moneys
Cool
You were first (51 seconds ago)
@@arzantyt2055cool
Seems like the E in EU has as much meaning as the NA in NATO. Maybe the coalitions and alliances should change their names up to more accurately surmise who’s allowed in.
Georgia is technically European.
Ah, a new video from mah favourite propaganda channel, RealLifeLore😁