1. High level visit to Ukraine is extremely important to show at least late support. Ukrainian President stood by us during the War. We owe them, let alone other factors. 2. Prime Ministers position that Ukraine is a sad story but Georgia is different, that Georgia has found perfect balance between EU and Russia is nonsense and is directed consciously or not against Georgias national interests. Now when it is becoming extremely difficult for the appeasers in the West to appease Russia, Georgia absolutely needs to remain high on the agenda to get out stronger from these tragic turbulences in the region. Prime Ministers groundless, but arrogant assurances that Bidzina Ivanishvilis wisdom in dealing with Russia outweighed that of all the others are not helping in achieving this goal. 3. Some may recall Ivanishvilis promise that Georgia would cease to be a divisive issue between Russia and the West and think that could be a wise, well thought through strategy (lets trick Russia by not raising our voice, or lets not irritate Putin, he may appreciate this) - this is another nonsense. Theres no way to get stronger and to get those almost half a million people home to the occupied territories without full blown Western support and the West needs to be constantly reminded (even when there are too many other problems in the World and some western leaders do not want to hear about Georgia at all). This is our job. Nobody will do this job for us.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:12:46 +0000