The failure of the colour revolution template in Georgia, for the moment at least, is good news for all who value freedom.

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The relentless probing – to use Churchill’s memorable phrase from First World War Salonica Front days – of Russia’s soft Caucasus underbelly continues unabated. This time the direct cause of the manufactured social unrest was the outcome of the elections recently held in Georgia. To nobody’s surprise, the Georgia Dream party of pragmatic Prime Minister Irakli Kobahidze won by an impressive margin, throwing the embittered pro-EU and pro-NATO crowd into a tizzy.

They are understandably upset because the current government are strongly opposed to the collective West’s agenda to enlist Georgia (alongside other borderline states such as Armenia and Moldova) in its projected second front campaign against Russia. Kobahidze and his party would have none of it nor did they consent to foolishly compromise their country’s trade relations with Russia, which have been very advantageous to Georgia’s economy. The current government’s flat refusal to turn Georgian soldiers into cannon fodder for the benefit of distant “partners,” as in 2008 it was done with disastrous consequences by Saakashvili’s vassal regime, coupled with the government’s rejection of EU style economic suicide that would inevitably follow the disruption of profitable commercial relations with Russia, has marked it as an enemy of the collective West. That makes it a legitimate target for the regime change operation.

Readers will recall that a similar attempt, of inciting high intensity street violence and agitation, occurred in Tbilisi in April and May of last year. The direct trigger of that episode was the Kobahidze government’s plan to pass legislation mandating transparency in the financing and operation of foreign supported “NGOs,” about 20,000 of which had been set up and were operating in that tiny country, promoting agendas having little to do with the concerns and needs of the Georgian people. The government’s plan to essentially translate into Georgian and use its parliamentary majority to enact the provisions of the US FARA, or Foreign Agents Registration Act, in effect since 1938, provoked a furious reaction in the streets of Tbilisi from local actors on foreign payrolls who would be obliged to comply with the law’s requirements.

Over the last couple of days, Tbilisi was again the scene of violent convulsions staged by the disciples of the countless “NGOs” that still infest Georgia. The rationale behind those disorders was the same false narrative of alleged grievous infractions against European standards and the rioters’ fervent commitment to democratic values. Remarkably, earlier this year those democracy zealots were not bothered at all when machinations originating from Brussels illegally overturned the democratically achieved electoral victory of Kalin Georgescu in Romania. Nor were any objections raised in that camp last weekend when following crude electoral skulduggery EU’s vassal and preferred candidate Maia Sandu was shamelessly declared winner of the rigged elections conducted in Moldova.

It is to the credit of the people of Georgia that the subversive upheaval staged in their capital (in the rest of the country it got no traction at all) quickly came to naught. To the Georgian government also goes a large share of the credit, firstly for not being swayed by unresolved issues between their country and Russia and, secondly, for not sitting idle since last year’s unsuccessful coup attempt. They have instead taken effective steps to inform the public of the standard “colour revolution” methodology that would again be used to confuse, mislead, and deceive them – as tragically was done to the Ukrainians – into frivolously giving up their freedom and sovereignty.

A glance at the map reveals the rationale of the geopolitical design behind the commotions currently unleashed in the Caucasus and stretching in a long arc all the way to Moldova and Transnistria. It is to compensate for the collective West’s defeat in Ukraine by opening a second front to tie down and hopefully exhaust Russian forces and resources. There is no popular sentiment in any of the designated proxy countries that would favour war or any overt hostility toward Russia. That means that they can be turned into sacrificial lambs only if by hook or by crook their governments were captured from within, with obedient stooges being installed to run them who would follow the directives of the ruthless hegemonistic crime syndicate that the once noble countries, now comprising the collective West, have become.

The principal tool to accomplish the internal takeover of non-compliant governments, such as Georgia’s, is amply bankrolled soft power subversion using generously financed phony “NGOs,” followed by the application by rented crowds of as much force as is deemed necessary to topple the recalcitrant regime, replacing it with hand-picked puppets. The operation is carried out using contemporary techniques but in its effects it is fundamentally indistinguishable from the Anschluss by which the Hitler regime captured and incorporated Austria. The only immaterial difference is that today the Anschluss is entirely a political affair and does not necessarily include the territorial component, although further developments with regard to Greenland and Canada, which bear watching, may oblige us to revise that judgment.

The failure of the colour revolution template in Georgia, for the moment at least, is good news for all who value freedom. The Georgian people deserve admiration for the political maturity they have displayed and their refusal to be used as instruments of their country’s enslavement and destruction.