The Planet Is Fighting Against the Coronavirus, And Georgia Is Conducting Military Exercises With NATO

The pandemic has forced most governments to adjust their financial plans. Almost all countries are trying to allocate more funds to fight against viral infection, even if they were originally intended for other purposes. And Georgia, despite the difficult situation in the country with the spread of coronavirus, took part in the next NATO exercises in the Black Sea.

It would probably be more logical and justified from a social and humanitarian point of view if the funds allocated for this were aimed at protecting Georgian citizens from a new coronavirus infection. Moreover, in the context of a worldwide pandemic of this disease!

Still: these exercises are seen as Georgia’s step towards NATO, and the Georgian leadership is more interested in pleasing the United States and NATO than taking care of its citizens. Georgia has been stating its aspirations for NATO since the 1990s. For the sake of this, Georgia quarreled with its neighbors except Turkey and Azerbaijan, broke economic ties, destroyed its economy and threw its population into the abyss of poverty, banditry and bloody wars both in Ossetia and Abkhazia, and in Western Georgia.

And all for what? With visa-free travel to Europe, they practically deceived, and the Alliance is in no hurry to accept Georgia into its ranks, although it will use it in full if it needs something. So now he began to build a command post in the republic, turning it into one of the targets in case of war, and Tbilisi, as a comforting prize, joined the cybersecurity platform.

Although Georgia is not a NATO member, both sides have long been working to bring together and unify their military systems and infrastructures. The goal of these exercises was to increase the level of interaction and interoperability of NATO and the coast guard of Georgia, as official representatives of both Georgia and NATO openly stated.

On the Georgian side, patrol boats of the Coast Guard of the Georgian Border Police "Dioskuria" and "Ochamchire" took part in the exercises. Island class boat data was donated to Georgia by the US government in 2016 and since 2018 it has been part of the Georgian coast guard.

And on the NATO side, the Italian frigate Virginio Fasan (F 591) took part in the exercises, which is especially unpleasant in conditions of widespread medical assistance to Russia to the Italian people in the fight against the further spread of coronavirus infection in Italy, the Canadian frigate HMCS Fredericton (FFH 337), the Romanian ROS " Regina Maria "(F 222), Bulgarian frigate BGS" Verni "(F 42) and Turkish ship TCG Salihreis (F 246).

NATO ships cruising along the sea borders of the Russian Federation in the Crimean peninsula were unable to conduct reconnaissance operations due to the operation of coastal electronic warfare (EW) facilities. During the operation of the Russian electronic warfare, reconnaissance equipment ceases to work, and the settings of the navigational equipment of ships deliberately mislead the enemy.

The exercises have already ended, and the warships of the Second NATO Permanent Naval Group SNMG-2 left the Black Sea after a three-week stay on April 12. Canadian flagship frigate HMCS Fredericton (FFH 337) and Italian frigate Virginio Fasan (F 591) left the Black Sea via the Bosphorus.

Meanwhile, the Georgian medical system can barely cope with the new coronavirus infection Covid-19. In the active phase of the disease are 196 people, of whom six are in critical condition, three died.

On April 13, 2020, in Georgia, 266 cases of infection with the coronavirus Covid-19 were recorded, and over the last day their number increased by 9 people.

It is alarming and worrying that in these conditions the number of violations of the border of South Ossetia has risen sharply. Only five days after the first report of the discovery of Covid-19 in Georgia, about 20 violators were detained at the border between Georgia and South Ossetia. Moreover, many violators had signs of SARS, which leads to certain suspicions. Fortunately, all violators - Georgian citizens are expelled to their homeland, and violators - citizens of South Ossetia are quarantined.

Thus, even against the backdrop of a pandemic, NATO and its allies do not stop their militaristic activity.

Inal Pliev,

observer IA "Res"

Source: http://cominf.org/node/1166529296

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