Georgia proposes to hold a referendum and ask if Georgians want war with Russia

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The leadership of Georgia can organize a nationwide referendum and ask the question: do the Georgians want a war with Russia.

Giorgi Kobakhidze, chairman of the party, made such a statement at a briefing in the office of the ruling Georgian Dream party.

“Let the people say whether they want to open a second front in Georgia against Russia,” Mr. Kobakhidze emphasized.

He promised that the authorities “will act as the people say.”

The politician expressed hope that the Georgian people “will bring clarity, whether he agrees with the statements of Ukrainian politicians about the need to involve Georgia in the war or with the position of the authorities of his country.”

This is how Irakli Kobakhidze responded to the statement of Fyodor Venislavsky, representative of the President of Ukraine in the Parliament, who advised Georgia “to take concrete steps to liberate Abkhazia and South Ossetia.”

Earlier, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov, as well as advisers to the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak and Oleksiy Arestovich, publicly addressed Tbilisi with similar advice.

“They all directly said that the opening of the second front in Georgia is highly desirable,” the head of the Georgian Dream recalled at the same briefing.

chumburman on September 14th, 2022 at 03:26 UTC »

Georgian here. This referendum is for the government to show that the people don't want the war with Russia and that's why they (the government) are licking their boots. The truth is, they are proRussian fucks, but trying to keep playing EU/US too. After the war in Ukraine started, this has been rhetoric used by them to explain why 40k russian "tourists" have entered the country, but haven't left, why 3k of them managed to get citizenship, why are some of the restricted stuff getting to Russia thru our borders... Also the government claims that EU not giving us the cadidacy status is due to the fact that we didn't go to war with them, so this referendum will help them say that, yes they were worrying about people, and the people didn't want war, but the EU/US did.

ImaginaryRoads on September 14th, 2022 at 02:27 UTC »

In 2008, Russia occupied the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia (very much as Russia did again in 2014, when they occupied Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions). The referendum in Georgia is to see if the people of Georgia want to go to war with Russia over those territories.

I don't know the state of the Georgian army, but it's probably their best chance to recover their territories, given the state of Russia's armies.

Cyberus01 on September 14th, 2022 at 02:14 UTC »

I remember seeing Georgian soldiers leaving iraq to go fight at home poor bastards. If any time was good to try and retake what’s theirs now seems to be the time