Shota Dighmelashvili - The Mechanics of State Capture Exported from Russia to Georgia, Moldova, etc.

[@shermoore1693]

Clear and intelligent account of what Georgia has been through, how it all evolved and what must be done. Thanks for another excellent interview. Good luck to Georgia and this brave young man! I hope he stays well away from high storey windows.

[@edjones3390]

Great guest, hope Georgian people can get their democracy back

[@SiliconCurtain]

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[@SiliconCurtain]

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[@dwarftomatoproject]

Thank you for this interview and the inspirational guest Shota showing us the genuine Georgian dream!

[@SiliconCurtain]

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[@terryhand]

Thank you Shota and Jonathan for helping us understand what is happening in Georgia.

[@DarkestAlice]

Thank you, Jonathan and Shota Dighmelashvili, for this very interesting conversation. I do hope, the protests will lead to change and I look forward to welcoming Georgia in the EU family. All the best for your fight for freedom. 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦🇪🇺 🇪🇺🇬🇪 გაათავისუფლე საქართველო რუსეთისგან! 🇬🇪 🇪🇺

[@johncromwell2529]

Thanks for the deep dives into topics Great work👏👏👏

[@tisme9690]

Thanks Shota and Jonathan. Georgia fights for her democracy and we must support the brave Georgians ❤🤍

[@christianecoughlan7392]

Very depressing situation 😢 I admire how he is still smiling despite the dire state of the country.

[@mike4480]

Thanks Johnathan

[@mike4480]

And Shota

[@mike4480]

for the

[@mike4480]

Stream

[@mike4480]

It’s much

[@mike4480]

Appreciated

[@samedwards6683]

Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative interview. Great job. Keep it up. Heroyam Slava. 💙💛 🇺🇦

[@ninemoonplanet]

I have seen images of Georgia and it's a beautiful country. The writing is very unique, the wines are apparently some of the best. Russia is slowly drowning, hopefully it doesn't take Georgia with it. It takes some planning to keep the people engaged. I wish the people of Georgia success at becoming a truer democracy, a land that doesn't have any parts of it under another country.

[@markendicott6874]

Another excellent episode - highlighting yet another part of the world that gets overlooked while the Kremlin attempts to steal yet more land.

[@SonaliGurpur]

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[@MarkusHirsch-Surlemont]

Es lebe die Freie und Demokratische Republik Georgien 🇬🇪 mit ihrer mehrheitlich friedlichen tapfer kämpfenden Bevölkerung für ihre Rechte in Georgien 🇬🇪!

[@k_tell]

Good Luck Georgia! I'm sure you have already thought of this idea, but I have not seen it proposed anywhere: Why not ask the President (the real one, i.e. Salome Zourabichvili) to appoint a new interim government for six months with the primary task of conducting new, free and fair, elections. I would use an independent poll result to decide the seat allocation. For example the last Edison Research poll before the election (1-18 Oct 24) gave GD 34%, Unity 18%, For Georgia 11%, Coalition for Change 14%, Strong Georgia 10%, GLP 5%. The other 8% appears to have gone to parties that would not have made the 5% threshold, so, adjusting for those parties not getting seats would give the following percentage seat split: GD 36.96%, Unity 19.57%, For Georgia 11.96%, Coalition for Change 15.22%, Strong Georgia 10.87%, GLP 5.43%. If Salome Zourabichvili invited each party to send the appropriate number of MPs matching that percentage split to the Parliament Building to be sworn in for six months, ideally on a Saturday, I'm thinking that a significant number of Georgians would want to come to the square in front of the Parliament building to witness that even broadcast live to big screens in front of the building. Hopefully that would be enough to ensure that the swearing in ceremony went off without a hitch. May be that percentage split is imperfect, but I'm sure it would be a better representation of the actual will of the Georgian people than the "results" of the October "election" were. And if a short time limit is set I think everyone except GD would probably go along with the idea. It may be that someone would claim it is un-constitutional, and perhaps it is, but Irakli Kobakhidze has ignored the constitution to appoint a "President" to replace Salome Zourabichvili, I think it would be fitting for Salome Zourabichvili to appoint a PM to replace Irakli Kobakhidze!

[@tomwende5529]

The state capture toolkit is not only defeasible, it's also predictable. Once independent media is suppressed, once NGOs are banned as 'foreign agents' and replaced by so-called russian "NGOs," and once the state is run by puppets, it's too late. It takes civil society to overturn this (as Shota points out), and the state will turn rural constituents (who live on a steady diet of state-sponsored propaganda) against urban protesters. Moldova has endured this for decades, and the Sandu government took major steps to curtail foreign media influence, neuter the vermin Ilor Shor, and to "discourage" further separatist inclinations. I'm so glad that she got a second term! Georgia has one of the oldest Constitutions in the world. I couldn't possibly weigh in on Europe integration, other than to support Georgians' willingness to fight and bleed for it. That's all I really need to know. However, a free Ukraine and Georgia in NATO would be NATO's crown jewels. NATO knows this. Before "Georgian Dream" and so-called russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Georgia was further down the path toward NATO integration than Ukraine was. "A single loss of life could spiral the protest into a direction that the government cannot possibly control, no matter the scale of the repressions." Shades of Euromaidan. The propaganda narrative that Shota laid out is pernicious: since nobody would buy so-called russian integration, it went to isolation, leaving so-called russia as the default partner. Thank you, both. I gained a great deal of context and depth from this interview. Please make popcorn and watch the US walk down the same path.

[@Donovanwashere]

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[@gatonegro5193]

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[@hififlipper]

I am not sure if that is enough to face and stop the Russian expansion dreams.

[@SiliconCurtain]

We need to innovate ways to try though!

[@mango2005]

Western policy towards Russia until 2022 was too Mercantile. Russia came to believe it could buy us.

[@conflict_monitor]

Unabashed agitprop

[@chirawanphung]

I take it you have a brain and that you’re referring to the Russo propagandists.

[@jakbak-y6f]

Whats the quantity,? Its all about the same agressor. Your boss problely.

[@claverton]

Perhaps you could consider a vid on state capture in the West ... compare and contrast? For example how the UK no longer has an independent foreign policy and is totally subservient to the will of the US and Israel, even to the extent of supporting genocide and ethnic cleansing. I understand now in the UK if you speak out or protest against said genocide you risk arrest?

[@Serenity-hy]

Try protesting in China, Turkey or Russia 😉

[@ralfjanser4733]

@@Serenity-hy can't follow you, as a protest in these countries gives you a job and free housing with free medical care for the next century and in russia you can win a job with a 20000 $ direct payment, in haiti - if you prefer drugs - you'll receive a lifetime free delivery

[@ralfjanser4733]

take a look at de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:1759_map_Holy_Land_and_12_Tribes.jpg and show me where you can find a group which needs to be cleaned? if you steal the territory of other people it won't be your property and if you have any doubt about this ask putin about this topic. I just represent his point of view. Second you try to support disinformation, on one hand - not being your opinion does not say that this point of view is influenced, on the other hand - hamas is a terror group nothing else. If it needs to stop their terror and the price is to wipe them from this planet just do it. I do not support terror actions against civilians, against members of different countries, against pregnant wifes or children. If you support something like this you should urgently question your mind.

[@claverton]

@@Serenity-hy why didn't you mention protesting in countries that are the West's allies? Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey for example?

[@2russo.phobic4u]

Perhaps you could consider viewing other content?

[@ralfjanser4733]

preferring quauntaty in front of quality is always dangerous, this channel looses quality in a rapid speed

[@SiliconCurtain]

Really? I don’t think so.

[@jakbak-y6f]

In essence its about your country number 4733