Georgia Accuses US Of "Visa Blackmail" After Blinken Announces Sanctions Over "Russian Bill"
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- čas přidán 23. 05. 2024
- The United States will implement visa restrictions and review ties with Georgia over a controversial "foreign agents bill" that has ignited widespread protests. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the visa restrictions would apply to Georgian politicians and officials behind the bill, criticizing the legislation for stifling freedoms of association and expression. Blinken emphasized the US's longstanding support for Georgia's democracy and warned that undermining democratic processes or institutions could render individuals ineligible for US visas.
The ruling Georgian Dream party, which passed the bill requiring NGOs and media with over 20% foreign funding to register as "foreign agents," accused the US of "visa blackmail" and encroaching on Georgia's sovereignty. Critics likened the law to Russian measures used to suppress dissent, while supporters, including Georgian PM Irakli Kobakhidze, argued it promotes transparency and safeguards sovereignty. The legislation has sparked mass protests in Tbilisi, met with tear gas, water cannons, and arrests by riot police.
Blinken urged Georgia to reconsider the law, warning it could harm its EU and NATO aspirations. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen also cautioned that the legislation poses a serious obstacle to Georgia's European integration. Amid the tensions, Georgian PM Kobakhidze claimed an EU commissioner had hinted at an assassination threat over the law, a statement the EU's Oliver Varhelyi later clarified was taken out of context. Varhelyi expressed regret and emphasized the need to avoid further polarizing the situation.
The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US of blackmailing Georgia, with spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemning US intervention in sovereign affairs. Georgia's parliament is set to launch proceedings to override a presidential veto on the controversial law next week.
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Screw the bullying and turn to BRICS.
BRICS doesn't trust BRICS.
brics is falling apart brics by brics russia bullies china bullies ,
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that shithole places that would die to live in nato hahahaha
More bullying in BRICS though.
Shit brics💩💩
Shit india also in brics🤣🤣🤣
Georgia people want to join with EU🇬🇪
Here we go again ..dipping there nose in a sovereign country.....wake up world....
They are sanctioning, ie they are abandoning Georgia which mean they and not dipping their nose.
Another country going to be slaves to USA and EU.
Thanks For Ukraine....The us is lossing many allies
😂😂which allies USA lost?
Russia lost all europe,armenia,georgia next😂
@@shuttlespace04Of course it lost Europe and the entire West but it "conquered" the rest of the world.
@@lorenzomarini5491 which world?🤣🤣
Russia cant even trade with them bz of sanctions 🤣
Only trade with india and China.
@@lorenzomarini5491 Elections in October 🤣🤣georgians will elect opposition 🇬🇪💪
@@shuttlespace04 😂😂😂 please read or research more before you come here to comment.....
Vive la Georgie. Avis aux georgiens ne laissez pas les USA faire de votre pays une 2e Ukraine. Rapprochez vous de la Russie elle est là votre intérêt et votre survie.
Russia doesn’t even have to capacity to win in Ukraine.
@@johnyoung4163 Forget it my friend. It's already done.
@@luclasnier7147 half a million soldiers for 25,000 square miles is not a victory sir. You fair for the same reason the soviets failed, you can’t see things for how they really are.
@@johnyoung4163yes, yes, we know… UA lost only 31 k
@@johnyoung4163 Sorry John it finish your Ukraine. The western propaganda has blinded you. Now let's the facts.
The USA has a Foreign Agent law. The Georgian version is based on the US version, so the obvious question is why is this law good for the Americans but unacceptable for Georgians.
😂😂😂😂lies😂😂😂
Georgia want to join with EU.
Not USA lol
@@Lionking65816😂😂US owns EU buddy 😂😂😂
@@xy8083 4% of the world think they can own other countries? LOL lets see how their nukes will reply to that and how many america can block if they kept forcing their BS unto others.
@@xy8083:your absolutely right, the EU is forcing its members to open their borders to allow immigrants into their country illegally which really are 3rd world countries worst kind of criminals who manage to lose their ID’s but they’ll never lose their criminal mindsets.it’s happening in America,Uk,Ireland. The EU is a puppet for the US.
Easy answer: US hypocrisy
USA is full of double standards
Georgia Elections in October 🤣🤣🤣
Russian 🤡 government has only 4 months remain😥
The Georgian people don't want the law, only Russian slaves do.
@@shuttlespace04 WOW america is that powerful? why do they kept hiding then? always need someone else to help them right? then claim they did all the hard work? LOL if you still believe your 4% of the world population can fight half of the world then go and join the military, so many idiots claiming to be powerful just because their media say so, what fools LOL!
Thats why I never trusted US in my 78 years,never been afraid of Russia 🇸🇪
@@shuttlespace04trump will win and abandon NATO😂😂
New Maidan???? Please no get in the same trap like Ukrainian
U.S always take cowardly actions like this. Sanctions sanctions or weapon test on proxy grounds. M f
The US has every right to decide who can use its technology and infrastructure. There is nothing cowardly about punishing people for being evil.
Zionist Blinken was never Elected Dog Catcher in the US ! We're Sick of them !
Cowardly? The Georgian government has clearly decided to pivot towards the Russian sphere of influence and the US has responded by letting them know that this may result in visa restrictions. It is business as usual and no surprise to anyone who pays attention.
US always takes peaceful approaches first unlike russia which just invades to expand territories. Every Customer (US) have every right not to trade with a store(McDonald's. Georgia, wallmart or russia) if they don't like their practices. It is a peaceful approach.
So you prefer russia approach which is to invade Georgia and steal their land.
The US and EU are the number ènemì of democracy... these hypocrites have similars even more stringent😂
You mean russia and Iran.
It's the same law as in the US. You have to declare whose foreign country's money is supporting your NGO if it's more than 20% of your budgets. GEORGIANS working for any foreign NGO or other foreign organizations in Georgia have to register as FOREIGN AGENTS according to this new law. Being a foreign agent is not against the low, as is not in the US, if you are registered. It becomes a crime if you are not registered as a foreign agent. What we are talking here is about transparency. So why is this crowd against transparency if Georgia is a democracy? US and Russia, and all Western European countries, have the same laws, so why is it only a problem for Georgia and Russia and not for the US and Europe? I think every intelligent person would know.
👍
Yes, we all know.
In democracies, a law like this provides transparency and openness.
In Russia (and possibly Tbilisi also), a law like this is used to silence opposition voices and jail any challengers to the regime.
The citizens of Georgia are out their making their opinions known. My opinion and your opinion do not matter.
@@ugli88BS. Russia is more democratic than the US and the EU ever were... No one buys your BS lies and propaganda anymore 😂😂. We all know those who protest are paid stooges by EU, US and their NGO's...
Money talks and has higher power but that doesn't work who knows how to keep that in check
Maybe if Russia wasn't occupying part of Georgia and Russia retreated back to it's own border, The Georgians wouldn't fear this Law so much .
@@johnbayton9200 why did they attack Russia in the first place? They're lucky Russia isn't occupying the entire country.
Georgian leadership understood the reason for the downfall of Ukraine 😭🙏
Sanctions, blackmails, threathens, wars...and then suddenly US will find they alone. The world had united lol
🧠🤔
Blinken is a tool and technically acting President of our foreign affairs. Crazy how Biden disappears from a ll accountability and all we hear is about Blinken. 😊
And Blinken is largely ignored by the main Brics nations... because nobody believes a word he says. Or Biden for that matter... rightly so.
Blinken international war criminal genocidaire extraordinaire.
Oblinken είναι μία μαριονέτα και μισή
Because Brandon can't even find his way to the bathroom.
They’re all tools of you know who, and it rhymes too
we now know the truth about Ukraine, what went on with EU negotiations, and the outcome when Yanukovich chose Russia
Yanukovich was always a Russian puppet.
Remember folks. The USA is a democracy, and the USA respects other sovereign countries, and doesn’t mingle in their domestic affairs. Hahahahahahahahah😂😂😂😂😂hahahahahah.
Well the first part is undoubtedly true. We just don’t respect Russia, and we 100% mingle in foreign affairs….youre just mad we better at it
@@johnyoung4163 and UK dont respect yankies , second sort people
@@johnyoung4163a democracy? Come on now, if your vote truly made a diference do you think theyd let you vote?.
@@dagosegovia843 yeah I do….but pls tell me who you think “they” is
Where is human rights and freedom of speech
Yes😢
People cant even protest
For Western regimes, you have to accept boys can be girls. And believe children are to serve pedophiles. Thats the United States foreign policy if you need aid
@@Lionking65816
Louder.
People protest for what exactly???...
BRAVO GEORGIA. All sane countries should do likewise.
Has Victoria Nuland a new job? Coup in Georgia.
Georgia must understand that you're dealing with the pirates
Definition of Insanity... Doing the same shite over and over again, and expecting a different result???
Wish US/NATO/EU would stop their humbug...
They were even caught trying to pull off another coup in the DRC in Africa a few days ago... they never give up. The Original Evil in the world.
Full support to Georgian People🇬🇪
Now Georgian is in the queue of democracy like Libya 😅😅😅
Libya war was approved by UNSC, russia and china are members of UNSC and approved the invasion.
And like all the countrys who's economy been destroyed, no jobs, private health system,high interest, private schools and list go on.......
"Honorable" is not the word I would use to describe Blinken.
"defecable" is better
Unlimited Sanctions of America
America owns the systems and has the right to decide who can use them. Don't like it? Stop freeloading and build your own.
America owns what systems ?? If you're talking about Swift, yes, we can expel any country we wish to expel. Same with sanctions, tariffs, and embargoes. The problem is that the United States also directs other countries that they also MUST follow the US lead, OR ELSE. That is what makes the modern day US to be a Mafia organization. Forcing other countries into "honoring" our sanctions has been an incredibly successful tactic. But its been way over used and Global South countries are no longer going to roll over because China and Russia provide an alternative.
@@corvanna4438 yes but don't have the right to impose the system. It's easy to understand that they use ONG to pay idiots for propaganda and protests
@@corvanna4438Okay you have a valid point but when other countries do try to build their own, does the US let them? Also, US need to stop stealing oil from Syria and Iraq. Both countries have asked the US to get out a long time ago. Pls ask your leaders to get out. No one wants you here
@@izajahmed8863 the US doesn't care what Assad wants, he is murdering the Syrian people. Iraq actually has not made a request for the US to lead, merely claimed they would. Remember it was the US that saved them from ISIS
The US needs to thake care of the American an not get in other Counntries politcs. The colonization and zionost mind of the US Goverment is sickening the people all we want is a President for Americans not a war monger we want AIPAC dismantel.
America is doing the right thing opposing evil. The people of Georgia oppose the law.
Yup US need to take care of American that is why US is sanctioning to stay away from Georgia.
@@corvanna4438n’importe quoi nous savons tous l’Amérique est le mal et elle a bien plus sans d’innocents sur les mains que n’importe quels autres nations les états-unie sont le cancer qui détruit se monde et ce pays dois être effacé de la surface pour qu’on puisse vivre en paix
US has to stop its bullying, boycott,sanctions, threats etc . US has lost ots relevance in the international stage. It must acknowledge it and move on 😂😂
God bless Georgia for your courage against these evil shadows. Stay true, and stay strong, the light of truth will always guide you on the right path.
The EU do not want the light to shine on their dark dealings in Georgia.
Oh those good-old spontaneous, unmprompted and genuine "peacefull" protests...
U. S .."double standard" U. S loosing credibility faster than one could imagine
Now in the USA, tik tok is banned by saying Chinese influence.When it comes to Georgia, even exposing information about where the NGO get the funds is a problem for USA. Hypocrisy at its best
No wonder they are introducing that foreign bill..
The EU show us all what kind of "values" they really endorse.
The yanks working behind the scenes is simply astonishing 😅
Blinken repeatedly dishing out sanctions left, right, and centre crippling US corporates and destroying the US economy. Yellen and Blinken make a great team.
Georgia
Should Side With
Rossyia!
Europe is falling apart 😂😂😂😂
The people of Georgia should not try to be German, French, or any other so called "European" - they just need to be themselves; and somewhat ironically, irrespective to any pending legislation, they should be allowed to work out their own affairs, problems, political destiny, etc., without undue influence from outsiders whom wish to control the outcome.
Longlive USSR
Hasn’t existed for 40 years lol.
Great bill. Good to see these crooked people so angry
Why all this clamour: does anyone really want to go to the USA? ? ?
Yes.
@@nsevv to go pick up their money.
Lol! I have no taste for their 🦀🦀🦀
Usual US hegemony ,Georgia should decide what is good for their country without any interferences!
They call it the Russian Law to manipulate the simple and weak into being against it. When really, everyone should want to know where the information they are being presented originates from.
Democracy only a word empty means nothings and injustice to all human rights
Georgia on the right course to be independent.the main question here is why is USA in every body else's business?
Basically the usa said you keep that law bye bye
Georgia was first and keep going think they can keep anti Russian economy among young ignorant anti Russian economy it should've become part of Russian and brics
Nenechte se zastrašit USA už straci moc a Evropa je na tom stejně co pořad chtějí tu jejich tak zvanou demokracii vnucovat státům které ji mají a opravdovou
Nato EU is facing the same Hate instead of collapsing alongside soviet union which would have been fair now clowns think they broke and own resources in Africa
How can a law passed in Georgia will be Russia law ? US HAS SIMILAR LAW does US one also Russia law? In my opinion the law is to prevent outside interference in Georgia politics. Those who interfere in others business don’t want it and are manipulating some corrupt NGOs to protest it. Are those on the streets are telling us lawmakers in Georgia are not adults to know what’s going on?
What is wrong in this bill.
Soros doesn't like it
Just look at Russia.
Nothing wrong with it. The US has the same law, but they don't like it when sovereign countries also want to apply it.
@@ysteinfjr7529look at your mirror and see what is the problem which made you never grow 😂😂
@@nightelfuser US has robust democratic institutions and a vibrant civil society, but even they have been challenged by "dark" influence.
Do you really believe that the Russian GUR is reporting their expenditures to Georgian tax officials when they pay criminals to beat Georgian civilians in the streets?
The American dream you have to be asleep to believe
The same play book that was used in Ukraine.
Usa democracy in Libya ukraine afaghanstan we know it
The law put an end to US medling in Georgia .
Always good to know who's pulling the strings on the NGO's operating in your country. US has a lot of practice pulling strings.
Georgians should stay with Russia!!
Only tiger in eu :others are puppies of us
Stifling freedom of speech ?
And what it is in Ukrain ??
Victoria Nuland is lurking around 😮
I wonder who hates a law that curtails foreign meddling, the ones doing the meddling lol
The US is meddlying in other people bussines ...in foreing countries as always...;
Good reporting. Thank you. Strong democracy.
might god protect Georgia .
i wish theey kcik out all EU and American embassies out of their country and stay neutral free of interferrence .
this is too much of distablisation .please Georgia join the BRICS.
No thanks. We need to stop russia meddling and occupation of our Georgian lands. Hope to join EU soon. Russia is destabilizing our region.
Yanks need to be sorted
Nope hate filled Europe ex slaves need to be poor because African been providing hypocrites soviet Africa was mailed to fail by cheating so nato was too
JUST TELL Blinken USA passed the Same Law in 1938.
What's the PROBLEM BRO?
It is clearly a different law.
@@nsevv it is not.. Georgian law is softer than other countries have..
The people of Georgia 🇬🇪 ❤ are not accusing europe or the EU .. Its the peoples voice that matters. Not the politicians..Fight for your freedom Georgia 🇬🇪 💪
Tell it to zelenskys, unelected, catching people on the streets of Kiyv 😂
It’s amazing how quickly the CIA can bring overwhelming forces to bear when such legislation counteract such western initiatives.
that is what america does not understand while china and russia do, they respect their allies, not bully them or threaten them every time they don't get what they want. USA always want a one sided relationship, that is the sole reason of the failure of their diplomacy and the fading influence in the world
Russia and china bullies boycott and trade sanctions the most though.
100% correct.
Georga you can be anything you want except free ?
Even singapore and many other countries have similar laws
The same game of always
DEMOCRACY ALL AMERICAN FASHION
I see Blinken is making friends and influencing people, as ever. Apologies to Dale Carnegie.
USA has a similar law why it bad for Georgia but hood for USA?
Next thing: US force Georgia to change its alphabet!
India keeps a tab to this US agents ,so Geogia can do it .
Stay strong ppl 💪 🇺🇸
West hypocrisy
US long standing for democracy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
GEORGIA EXPECT AN AMERICAN BACKED C.I.A. COUP D'ETAT VERY SOON.
Funnily the US 🇺🇸 has a similar bill for years now 😊😮
We all know exactly what the EU commissioner meant.
USA enacted this law for their own country some 18 months ago. But no other country is allowed to do so?
US had this law since the 1938, way longer than 18 months
Two thing (a least) you should look at. What is defined as "Foreign Agent" and how has the law been used, in USA (the FARA) vs like in Russia. To say this is the same law as in USA is a load of crap unless Nazi-Germany and Soviet Union can be juxtaposed with today's democraties in EU and USA.
@@ysteinfjr7529 Adolf Hitler was elected (democratically) originally .Under the proportional representation system.That went well.
A threat is a threat Vathelyi
The georgian MP who said that is obviously a soviet simp
The ussr does not exist any more
Democratic country in American Lexicon means the country must be open to manipulation by the US National Endowment of DEMOCRACY
Hope that helped
This '' scenarios ""everyone already know .....step by step ... praying for georgian young people not to get in the piege of cowboys
Bravo Maria.
Obey the rules based bs or else…😢
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 😂😂😂😂😂
ASK AMERICAN UNDERGRADUATE S😂
GEORGIA MUST NOT CAVE IN TO THE PROTEST
That should be the least of your worries id worry about being kicked out of the eu we do t take countrys that hand control to war criminals
We all know Georgia will be in the EU only after 20 years when the EU itself will cease to exist😂😂. So, keep your EU in your @$$
Blinken should spend more time taking guitar lessons and less time bullying other countries and promoting _🏳️🌈_ everywhere.
USA policy 101 . Never agreed with us ? SANCTIONS, SANCTIONS, SANCTIONS.
Terry Martin, a Harvard professor, described it like this: the empire put the center at the service of the outskirts, resulting in the Russians becoming a «inconvenient nation». This professor (far from Russophil, by the way) refutes the myth of the Russian-oppressor.
Soviet Russia has built an unviable federal model with a central donor and arrogant recipients on the periphery.
Approximate estimates of non-reimbursable financial injections into the Georgian SSR for the entire time of «occupation» are approaching 0.5 trillion dollars.
Even according to official data (extremely low) per capita consumption in Georgia was four times higher than the same production. In the RSFSR consumption was only 75% of the level of production (and this is an inflated figure - Russians were eaten and robbed much more strongly: Russians lived literally starved). In 1990, Georgia’s per capita GDP was 10.6 thousand dollars, and per capita consumption was 41.9 thousand dollars, that is, each Georgian consumed 33.3 thousand dollars more than he earned. By the level of consumption, Georgia was in the first place in the USSR, that is to say, it lived the best.
Georgia was the richest republic, and its viability depended entirely on the resources of the RSFSR. Since Stalin, the level of total value consumption of goods and services per capita has been four to five times higher than that of production. Four or five times! No republic could afford this. In the RSFSR, for example, consumption did not reach the level of production by 30%.
And what world-class movies was shot in Georgia...
Is this a maidan coup 2.0?
GEORGIA Y RUSSIA🇬🇪❤🇸🇮❤❤❤
Is the Blinken president of US 😂😂😂😂😂😂 What 💩
The U$ rules the world or at least it thinks it does.
Georgia for the Georgians not for the politically affiliated. True Democracy lies with the people not the ruling elite.
Georgia isn't Georgia it's Russia Ukraine history of already fought on foolish young lgtbq thinking they getting EU to move to EU 😂😂
Be Russia griend & you become successful and make your people free and successful
But this Law is not only for US or EU, it would also ban Russian media companies and NGO's if they tried to invest more than 20% in their bid to affect Georgian society ?
Good decision US
Sanction them back
When I heard about Russia involving in there not issues I feel Vomit