A multinational exercises Maple Arch 2021 has started in Georgia. The military personnel of Georgia, Turkey, Canada, Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland - countries with long-standing Russophobic regimes - are taking part in the exercises. It is noteworthy that these exercises are organized by the Canadian Department of Defense.
The statement of the Georgian Ministry of Defense has noted that Georgia is hosting such exercises for the first time.
"The aim of the exercise is to increase interoperability between participating countries, strengthen defense ties between partner countries, bring them closer to NATO standards in planning and conducting peacekeeping operations, and develop the skills necessary for effective actions and decision-making," says in a statement from the defense department.
This means that any NATO country can already organize and conduct any exercises on the territory of Georgia with any set of participants, and the formal government of Georgia has no choice but to agree with any whim of the Western colonialists.
The opening ceremony of these exercises took place a couple of days ago at the training ground of the NATO-Georgia Joint Training and Evaluation Center (JTEC) near the capital Tbilisi. Speaking at the ceremony, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Georgia, General Irakli Chichinadze, has noted that these exercises will further strengthen military cooperation between the participating countries.
We see that Georgia is more and more involved in the military infrastructure of NATO without being admitted to formal membership. This will allow the US dominant in NATO to avoid long and tedious explanations to European "partners" who do not want to see such an unpredictable and unstable partner in the Alliance as Georgia.
Georgia owes Russia much more than NATO, but betrayed it at a critical moment and sided with its enemies. Will NATO fully trust Georgia and will they be frank enough with it? Hardly. Tbilisi is well aware of this. There are already certain signs of a certain sobering up, or attempts at a sensible rethinking of the pro-Western vector of development. But Georgian public opinion is so intimidated and clogged by pro-Western NGOs that these attempts are hardly able to go beyond populist street protests that have no practical significance.
Some actors in the authorities are already experiencing anxiety about the fact that the pro-Western course and orientation towards the United States are in one package in the promotion of LGBT freedom.
However, the pro-NATO hysteria has gone so far that even today's relatively patriotic leadership of the country can no longer do anything to protect the Georgian people from supporters of leveling national states, traditional national and family values in Western and pro-Western countries, in defense of which the former head of state Saakashvili spoke the day before, although when he was president, he pretended to be a supporter of traditional values. This leadership is already trembling with fear at the first shouts from abroad regarding the fate of Saakashvili and is already ready to make all humiliating concessions.
But the spearhead of this propaganda is directed precisely at young people. She remains completely defenseless, because some adults are forced to earn money, while others rushed to share power.
The once influential Georgian Orthodox Church also used all its authority in its time to whip up anti-Soviet and then anti-Ossetian hysteria, but in defending Christian values it showed its complete failure.
In today's Georgia, under the conditions of the unbridled omnipotence of the new coronavirus infection, the health care system, social ties, family values and moral norms are disintegrating, against the background of increasing corruption, the living standards of the population are falling, the gap between the rich and the poor is growing, problems are accumulating in all areas.
But the Georgian authorities, paralyzed by fear and incompetence, did not find anything better than to conduct international military exercises organized by the foreign state on their territory.
Everyone remembers that Georgia's full-scale military aggression against South Ossetia and Russia in 2008 also began with international military exercises. It is possible that even now the Georgian authorities want to unleash another military adventure in order to divert the attention of the masses from the situation around the arrested ex-President Saakashvili.
