🧵 There are too many armchair experts, who do not know a thing about Georgia but are arrogant and condescending enough to lecture us that Ivanishvili regime has nothing to do with Russia. Would you give us a break from your nonsense ? /1
Do you know a thing about Georgian politics? Its constitutional system and political regime? And their interplay? Have you studied Ivanishvili regime, his playbook, the trajectory of state capture and social cooptation? /2
Do you have a slightest idea what are the networks that make up Ivanishvili’s power in Georgia ? Have you studied the deep ties of these networks to Putin regime? Do you know who is Otar Phartshkaladze and why is he sanctioned by the US? /3
Do you know what Phartskahaladze does for Ivanishvili in GE and in RU? Do you know RU oligarch Yevtushenkov and Ivanishvili’s ties with him? Do you know how many of Yevtushenkov’s associates have directly interfered in GE through RU hybrid operations benefiting Ivanishvili? /4
Do you know about the close cooperation of Ivanishvili’s political police with Russian special services? Have you read investigative report establishing that the son of GRU s foreign sabotage chief had free pass in GE to conduct operations against foreign diplomats ? /5
Do you know that RU’s, Belarus’ and Ivanishvili’s intelligence and internal security officials are having joint trainings, including in GE? Do you know that GE state security service even formalized its ties with Belarusian counterpart ? /6
Next time you make bold assertions about Ivanishvili regime and his supposed autonomy from the Kremlin, do your homework better and study the evidence that amply contradict your conclusions. /END
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