Europe must act now, if we allow Georgia to fall into Russian hands again, it will not only be a tragedy for my country, it will be a strategic catastrophe for Europe, - the fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, stated in her speech at the plenary session of the Lithuanian Seimas.
According to her, if Russia succeeds in Georgia, it will prove that Russia no longer needs military aggression, military invasion to achieve its goals, "it can simply use, at a much lower cost to itself, hybrid warfare, electoral manipulation, economic coercion and the imposition of internal control to remove democratic governments and replace them with authoritarian projects."
"It is testing new ground in Georgia, as it did in 2008 when it tried military aggression. If it turns out that achieving success is easier and much cheaper than the very uncertain issue of a war against Ukraine, which has already cost Russia a lot, Russia will definitely extend its new strategy to countries where it is already conducting some preliminary tests, and these are Romania and Moldova. They will try to use this in the Ukrainian elections, which may be very dangerous, and give Russia what it was unable to gain through this aggressive war," Zurabishvili noted.
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