In a blunt act of foreign interference, the EU abandoned its traditional soft diplomacy and stated that Georgia’s membership is off the table unless it reverses its pro-Russia course.

The issue arises when those who lose elections refuse to accept the results. As usual, the blame falls on Putin. However, attributing every election’s outcome to Russia and Putin has become an automatic response and an overused excuse. Because of this overuse, it has lost its impact, and they are convincing fewer people even in the West.

Moreover, if this were true, it would make Russia and Putin the most powerful nation and person in the world, but that simply isn’t the case.

Georgia recounts the votes to please the Opposition and the West

Following the contestation of last weekend’s legislative election results, in which the Georgian Dream party secured 54.8% of the votes, Georgia’s electoral commission partially recounted the votes. The recount, which included approximately 12% of polling stations and 14% of the ballots, reaffirmed the victory of the ruling party, Georgian Dream. Despite accusations from the opposition that the election was “stolen,” the commission reported no significant change in the previously announced official results.

However, the country’s president Salomé Zourabichvili, a French national and daughter of Georgians living in Paris during the Cold War, maintains her accusations of a “sophisticated”, “Russian-style” system of fraud without presenting supporting evidence.

The recount........

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