🇬🇪🇩🇪A long read - but worth your time. In his interview, German Ambassador Peter Fischer @diplo_peter is refreshingly direct about Georgia’s crisis and Germany’s position. He makes two points that matter: 🔹Germany is not in the business of “regime change.” 🔹But it is in the business of defending principles, rules, and European commitments. That balance is uncomfortable for many. Interestingly, he both validates the frustration felt by many Georgians and reminds the more impassioned among us that diplomacy is not activism. States operate through law, institutions, and process. World order, if it is to mean anything, must be upheld properly, not impulsively. In a time of sharp rhetoric and growing polarization, this is sober, principled statecraft from Amb. Fischer. Highly recommended reading. 🇬🇪Georgian version below. interpressnews.ge/en/article…

🇬🇪Georgia is sliding into a legal dictatorship. Not overnight. Step by step. Each protest is met with a new tailored law. Each law designed to exhaust, criminalize, and isolate society until resistance itself becomes illegal. Here is how the latest law changes everything. 1/11

Georgian Dream is doing this for one simple reason: it works. Every previous authoritarian law has been met only with Western “concern,” “worry,” and polite “urges to reconsider.” No consequences. No costs. GD feel absolute power and they use it to crush all opposition. 2/12

They can do it because EU and US politicians are not reacting. Silence has become permission. Each non-response signals that the next anti democratic escalation will also be met with no reactions. 3/12 civil.ge/archives/719193

🇬🇪Georgian Dream has begun systematically targeting the people who spoke to the BBC about the regime’s use of a WW1 chemical agent against peaceful protesters. This is not coincidence. It is punishment. It is meant to silence every future witness. @GeorgianDream41

🇬🇪☠️Georgian Dream used a WW1 chemical agent on peaceful protesters one day, then almost immediately banned protective masks and goggles the next. Nothing says “we know exactly what we’re doing” quite like this. If anyone still wonders why this evil regime must be isolated, sanctioned and removed, look no further. #GeorgiaProtests

🇬🇪Georgia’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) might sound like a graft-busting agency, but under Razhden Kuprashvili it has become a political weapon. Georgian Dream is using it to wage a repressive crackdown on civil society, silencing NGOs and opposition voices. 1/13