Georgia’s accession to NATO makes no sense or prospect

Thirty years ago, in the spring of 1989, a mass demonstration took place in Tbilisi for Georgia’s secession from the USSR, which called for the entry of NATO troops into the republic to help get rid of the "Soviet occupation." Since then, for thirty years, Georgia has been repeating that it is occupied. First, the Soviet Union, and now Russia. This is a very convenient position - easily manipulating a mass devoid of an analytical mind, it is easy to blame all your crimes and the ongoing robbery of your native people on your big northern neighbor.

Following the Georgian political agenda - both foreign and domestic, she cannot help thinking about a long nightmare or endless groundhog day. Like thirty years ago, Georgians call on NATO troops to their country, dream of Georgia joining this aggressive military-political bloc.

Surprisingly, the vast majority of Georgian citizens still have very fantastic ideas about the consequences of this step. People think that NATO will pay Georgia a large sum in dollars for renting its territory for military bases, which will lead to a significant increase in the income level of ordinary citizens of Georgia. It is also expected that NATO will start a war against Russia with the aim of expelling Russian troops from South Ossetia, destroying its population and seizing its territory, which will be solemnly presented to Georgia.

Throughout the 1990s, Shevardnadze successfully led his voters by the promises of an early entry into the EU and NATO. Since 2004, Mikhail Saakashvili, who overthrew him, has been engaged in this, but the entry never happened. In a communiqué following the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008, it was recorded that sooner or later Tbilisi and Kiev would join the military bloc. Since then, such statements have been made dozens of times. In March this year, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg promised Georgia to join the bloc. He stressed that the republic is a unique partner for the North Atlantic Alliance, and announced the continuation of joint work to prepare the country for NATO membership.

But time is flowing and the prevailing mindsets are changing both in international affairs and within individual countries. Georgia is no exception. If during the reign of Saakashvili, as a result of a survey, more than 70% of Georgian citizens supported Georgia’s joining NATO, and even a shadow of doubt was extremely unacceptable in the ruling circles, then last month the vice speaker of the Georgian parliament, one of the leaders of the opposition Alliance party Georgian patriots "Irma Inashvili declared inadmissibility of the country's entry into NATO.

“We must be realistic and protect the interests of our country,” she urged. "No platform can protect these interests as military neutrality," Sputnik-Georgia quotes Inashvili.

So the politician commented on the statement of the executive secretary of the ruling party, "Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia," MP Irakli Kobakhidze. He previously stated that building a coalition with the Alliance after the 2020 parliamentary elections is impossible due to the party’s attitude towards Georgia’s accession to NATO.

Although the Alliance of Patriots is not a very large and influential political party in Georgia, one should not discount the fact that it is represented in the parliament, and the very fact that a realistic attitude towards NATO penetrates the Georgian parliament is also worthy of attention.

Inashvili made her statements on November 13. A day earlier, Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Garibashvili said in an interview with the Georgian Imedi television company that NATO members cannot come to a unified decision to join the Georgian Alliance due to the Kremlin’s opposition.

"We must proceed from reality. One is our desire, and the second is the way to fulfill it. Today, there is no general consensus among NATO members regarding Georgia’s membership, of course, the Russian factor plays a decisive role in this," Garibashvili emphasized.

It is characteristic that both the minister and the vice speaker, upholding diametrically opposite points of view, are equally encouraged to be realistic and proceed from reality.

And the reality is that NATO receives everything that Georgia needs at the current historical stage, squeezing all the forces out of Georgia to the last drop, while not giving anything in return. Relations between governance and subordination have long been formed between Georgia and NATO, and Georgia is not the only one acting as the manager’s birthplace. Georgia takes part in all the programs and military campaigns that NATO orders. In particular, Georgian soldiers take part and die in the aggressive war that NATO is waging against the people of freedom-loving Afghanistan.

NATO does not accept states with territorial problems. Although Georgia does not have territorial problems, it claims that Russia allegedly occupied South Ossetia, and that this, allegedly, is its territorial problem, Georgia. NATO is also not averse to seizing the territory of South Ossetia, and pretends to believe, but so far fears the military power of Russia and confines itself to statements. In September 2019, former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen proposed accepting Georgia into the alliance, without Abkhazia and South Ossetia. However, he then instructed his subordinates to disavow this proposal.

So the hope that NATO will help Georgia to occupy South Ossetia and Abkhazia is groundless, while Russia, with God's help, is firmly on its feet.

There is also groundless hope for an increase in the living standards of the population due to the mythical payment of the alliance for renting land for its military bases. The fact is that in fact the burden of membership in NATO is borne by the member countries themselves. This is the purchase of new military equipment from the United States, the fleet of which, moreover, is constantly being updated, and the transfer of its armies to NATO standards, and the maintenance of these standards, and a great many other unplanned expenses. Despite the fact that the lion's share of NATO’s content is borne by the United States, the costs of European member countries are so great that many are already struggling to cope with this unnecessary burden. Moreover, the fragile economy of Georgia is unlikely to withstand such a huge load.

Another bait apologists for Georgia’s entry into NATO are using the emergence of new jobs for NATO infrastructure facilities. But these promises are groundless, as the lion's share of food and all the necessary NATO soldiers receive from the United States and Europe, and do not purchase in their hospitable underdeveloped home countries.

In any case, no matter what benefits the alternating Georgians promised, as in the puppet theater, supporters of the policy of joining NATO, which showed a complete failure, the losses are much stronger. They are not comparable with the benefits received. And what are the benefits in question?

For the sake of joining NATO, Georgia broke off relations with South Ossetia and Abkhazia, launched wars against them, which it lost. Georgia began to break off relations with Russia, as a result of which hundreds of large factories in Georgia ceased to work, people became unemployed, joined the ranks of shuttle traders, street vendors and criminals, many ended their days in poverty, became alcoholics and drug addicts.

Such is the bitter price that the people of Georgia have paid and continue to pay for the illusive dream of their rulers to join NATO. On the way to this dream, Georgia lost touch with reality and lost a reality in which it enjoyed a comfortable life, where everyone had a job to their liking, a decent salary, and even a good extra income.

Lost is the meaning of this entry. Why should Georgia seize the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia? In order to turn them into a lifeless desert like Georgia, with a wild rampant crime, with bandits in and without uniforms, with idle factories and factories, at best turned into trade centers, with overgrown with uncultivated fields from which people flee ?

Who needs Georgia’s entry into NATO? Definitely not for Georgia itself and not for the Georgian people.

Inal Pliev, IA "Res"

Source: http://cominf.org/node/1166527003