Recently NATO /EU attempts to influence Georgia's politics, have been taken to another level.
A bit of background: Georgia, a country of 3.5 million people with something between 10,000 -20,000 NGOs has recently brought a law for voting so NGOs should disclose their fundings, a.k.a., foreign agents law. Under conservative calculations there is 1 NGO per 350 people in Georgia.
There is a big support in parliament to pass, however the foreign agents law has been temporarily vetoed by the president of Georgia. Who is interestingly ex
French ambassador in Georgia and holder of Georgian passport for a mere 20 years.
The whole situation has brought people in the streets who oppose the voting of the law. No surprise if you ask me: with so many NGOs, probably paying much higher salaries than the average wage, thousands of NGO workers would be seriously unhappy if money flow were to be disrupted.
So far so good (kind of), but lately this has geared to a whole new level with ministers from Baltic!! states visiting Georgia to convince government withdraw the law, other EU officials warn against it, Blinken* threatening sanctions!! and EU commissioner all but threatening assassination** to Georgian PM, Kobakhidze. Below Kobakhidze's post revealing the threatening, EU's commissioner's reply pretty much confirming it and Blinken's tweet about sanctions.
*It's funny Blinken threatening sanctions after US just passed a law against foreign agents intervention (Tiktok ban) a month ago.
**Fico is the PM of Slovakia who was shot 3 times in the abdomen last week, still in critical condition. Fico is considered anti-EU /NATO politician.
Further reading claiming ~4,000 active NGOs which again is too much in my view for such a small country