Thread by @terjehelland

🇬🇪🇬🇧Breaking: The “Political Council” of Georgian Dream has decided that when the UK sanctions two propaganda outlets, the appropriate response is an unhinged attack on its pro-Western political opponents.
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Nothing screams “independent journalism” like a ruling party issuing theological manifestos about why its favorite TV channels are sacred vessels of truth.
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https://x.com/tv_imedi/status/2027417260004884839

The statement is a masterpiece of ideological creativity. The opposition is:
🔹“stateless”
🔹“hanging between life and death”
🔹an “agency” of foreign masters
🔹part of the “global war party”
🔹controlled by the “deep state”
🔹embedded in “European bureaucracy”
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This is language last seen in North Korean🇰🇵 press briefings, not in a country that claims EU candidate status.
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The irony is almost poetic. GD call the opposition irrelevant, dying, and without support.
🔹Yet they ban opposition parties
🔹Criminalize dissent
🔹Attack NGOs
🔹Limit free assembly
🔹Sanction journalists
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If your rival is truly “on the verge of non-existence,” why the need to outlaw them?
Minimizing the opposition has become the core governing ideology.
They just forgot not to say it out loud.
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Perhaps the most revealing line is this: the opposition supposedly “waits on its knees for instructions from foreign patrons.”

Projection is powerful. 🇷🇺
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When a government reacts to sanctions by invoking “deep state,” “global war party,” and mystical foreign forces embedded in Europe, it is not projecting strength.

It is projecting stress & fear.
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