Giorgi Vashadze, a member of the radical opposition, made an interesting statement yesterday: "According to my information, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the American side has offered the Georgian side a multi-billion-dollar package to strengthen its defense capabilities." This assistance, he claimed, included training Georgian pilots alongside Ukrainian pilots.

Vashadze's use of the term "Lend-Lease" as the primary method for supplying Georgia with weapons is also noteworthy because, as we can see from the case of Ukraine, the approval and implementation of this strategy take time. Accordingly, in the event that Lend-Lease were to be initiated, Russia would have sufficient time to carry out the full occupation of Georgia before the aforementioned American weapons arrived, and before that, the Georgian military would have time to prepare.

 

Vashadze's statement was widely shared by Giga Bokeria, Shota Utiashvili, Bacho Dolidze, and TV stations affiliated with the National Movement. They literally confirmed Vashadze's information in different ways and severely criticized the Georgian government for not transferring weapons to Ukraine and receiving weapons from America after the war in Ukraine.

It is obvious, even to a little child, what would happen if the Georgian authorities transfer arms to Ukraine or mobilize arms from America. This would very easily serve as a justification for Russian military action on the second front, around which the radical opposition had commenced an open campaign in February-March.

These folks have been misled numerous times, so we are confident that they would not hold back in this situation either. The most important element in this situation is that they never make statements without a task.

Let us remind you that the current campaign was started by Giorgi Vashadze, who was "granted the right" to threaten the Georgian government on behalf of the United States with a coup d'état and early elections. We repeatedly requested the US Ambassador to distance herself from Vashadze's statement, but each time there was nothing.

The most interesting thing is how long it took for the embassy to let these people say that America was preparing our country for a devastating second front.

We are well aware of the fact that the embassy made every effort to urge the Georgian government to declare war, something they started to openly worry about a few days before the war in Ukraine. But when the government was reluctant to produce this outcome, they attempted the public's response. The embassy made repeated attempts to develop the idea of a second front in Georgian society soon after the start of the war, particularly in February and March, through Gigauri, Lomjaria, Margvelashvili, Ilves, Podolyak, Danilov, and others. However, they quickly abandoned the campaign and, instead, moved to global self-righteousness, arguing that neither they nor their Georgian counterparts push for a second front once they saw that the Georgian population preferred peace and double-digit economic growth over the war with Russia.

However, now, against the backdrop of Ukraine's successes at the front, it seems that the embassy has decided to retest the mood of the Georgian public. If the embassy sees that the public's negative reaction is not strong enough, it will actively relaunch the second front campaign and may even openly engage in this campaign itself. The embassy's desire to open a second front in Georgia is apparently so strong that they have begun to open their cards again and have their outstanding favorites talk on this topic.

These declarations from the radical opposition show that the second front in Georgia is still a threat, and the people as well as the government should take extra precautions to ensure that they do not err and ultimately avoid this threat.

Finally, we urge the American ambassador to openly denounce the extreme opposition's claims in this instance as well, as it is obvious that America was preparing Georgia for the second front from their words. If not, the public will be justified in believing that these claims are accurate, and the embassy's self-righteous claim that it opposes the war in Georgia is a farce and an effort to conceal its concern for the Georgian people.