How the West betrayes and continues to betray Georgia and Ukraine

Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the outgoing U.S. President for National Security, said on ABC that Ukraine should independently make a decision about ceding territories to resolve the conflict. "I believe that Ukraine determines its own fate, and its fate cannot be imposed from the outside, including by the United States," he said seriously.

It seems that nothing was said wrong. That's the way it is—Ukraine, like any other country, must determine its own fate. But for some reason, Sullivan's words sounded like another betrayal. Why? Probably because the West has already started this process, and Sullivan is not the first to make it clear to the Ukrainian side that Western resources are limited. Especially now that a new president has been elected in the United States.

More recently, an act of betrayal was committed by the European Union, which, through the mouth of the now former head of European diplomacy, Borrell, announced that "no one knows yet whether the European Union will be able to provide Ukraine with all the necessary support after the arrival of the Donald Trump administration and a potential change in the U.S. course on the Ukrainian conflict."

Now the United States, represented by the outgoing administration, is making it clear to Kyiv that it is not at all opposed to its abandonment of territories. If, of course, it wishes to do so. These words did not come as a revelation, especially against the background of a widely circulated media proposal by the Biden administration to Kyiv to lower the age of mobilization to replenish the army. The Western partners have not fulfilled their promises to Ukraine, have not delivered the promised weapons, but offer to send Ukrainian youth to slaughter. It is not surprising that the adviser to the President of Ukraine, Litvin, called such a decision meaningless in the context of untimely arms deliveries. We would add that such a proposal is not just senseless and untimely, but also criminal.

A week before Sullivan recognized Ukraine's right to "determine its fate," The Washington Post, citing sources, wrote that U.S. and European officials believe that Ukraine needs to give up territories to resolve the conflict with Russia. According to sources, American officials admit that within a few months Kyiv will be forced to enter into negotiations with Moscow. Not only in the United States, but also in Europe, they are secretly coming to the idea that "peace negotiations may require Ukraine to cede part of the territory to Russia." The Washington Post emphasizes that this topic was previously "banned" in the EU, and now the issue of upcoming territorial concessions has turned into a "quiet recognition."

Isn't it strange that Europe, for all its noble anger, did not deny itself Russian gas flowing through the territory of warring Ukraine? It is possible that now Ukraine has begun to be persuaded to make concessions all because of the same gas. After all, the contracts with Gazprom expire by the end of the year.

One can imagine how hard it is for the Ukrainian side to read and hear all this. The Allies are essentially announcing that they intend to step aside. All this is happening in real time, in front of the eyes of the whole world, who watched with bated breath as the spiral of conflict spiraled and what incredible assurances were given to Ukraine. But the Western gingerbread is so fragrant that it turns your head and prevents some from seeing what is happening in the real light.

At one time, Georgia was pushed toward self-destruction with sweet speeches. A few years after the five-day war in 2008, Mikhail Saakashvili, already a former president, said in an interview that in those days NATO and the United States were next to Georgia. The latter brought the entire U.S. Sixth Fleet with ballistic missiles on board to the Georgian shores, and a NATO base was put on alert in Turkey. The Georgians only found out about it a few years later because the whole armada did not provide any help, and few people even knew that NATO was somewhere nearby. Whether it was or not, it does not matter today, because Georgia lost its territories, and the West continued to cooperate with Russia as if nothing had happened. It's kind of weird, isn't it? On the one hand, the Sixth Fleet menacingly goes to rescue the Georgians (but for some reason does not save them), and on the other, when everything ends, Washington returns to its interests. As an excuse for the allies, it was said that the proximity of NATO forces, they say, stopped Russia, which was going to occupy all of Georgia and so on. That's how much America helped. And now propaganda is trying to create the opinion that it is not the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people, but fear of NATO and the United States that prevents Russia from reaching the Polish border...

A lot of secrets have been coming out lately. The honorary chairman of the Georgian Dream, Bidzina Ivanishvili, recently revealed shocking facts. What he said in an interview with the Imedi TV channel, apparently, is not a new story, but now the moment has come when Georgian society had to find out the truth. "I can remember what former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told me. One of the high-ranking officials of one of the countries [of the West] had a conversation with him. Irakli asked: 'Yes, but how do you imagine how many days we will be able to fight [with Russia]? How many days will we last?' He was answered—three or four days. He said, 'And for the sake of these three or four days, are you destroying us?' He was answered: 'So there are 3-4 million of you. They won't kill everyone in three or four days. Then you can start a guerrilla movement in the forest. We will help you, and you will fight from there,'" Ivanishvili said.

In this light, the Biden administration's proposal to Kyiv to launch young people into the meat grinder of war should not be surprising.

All this is remembered today against the background of the events taking place in Tbilisi. It seems easy to draw the right conclusions. It does not require deep analytics to understand what is happening and why. Not everything is as clear as it seems. Most see the riots as a proud protest by the Euro-loving public against the "Russian embrace" into which the "Georgian Dream" allegedly pulls Georgia. In fact, everything is much more complicated. In relation to Georgia, a scenario is being played out that could consolidate its status as a "banana republic," where coups are as commonplace as morning coffee.

The processes that Azerbaijan went through in the early 90s over the course of 5-6 years, Georgia continues to experience all the decades of its independence. It is in the interests of the Georgian people to put an end to this.