Terje Helland

🇬🇪🇮🇷 "Iranian officials describe Georgia as a favorable route for exporting Iranian goods to the European Union."
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Do you have the coordinates? 25.2048° N, 55.2708° E?

International law protects sovereignty. It was never meant to be a shield for permanent aggression.
If a government systematically exports violence and destabilization, it cannot expect the same moral deference as states that abide by the rules.

Efforts to remove the 🇮🇷regime are justified #FreeIran

When a regime has, for decades, armed proxies across the region, financed terrorism, crushed its own people, and openly called for the destruction of another UN member state, it is no longer just “another state” claiming equal innocence under the law.
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🇮🇷I respect those who defend international law. The UN Charter does not permit war for regime change. That principle matters.
But let’s not pretend this is a binary moral equation.
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🇬🇪🇬🇧Breaking: The “Political Council” of Georgian Dream has decided that when the UK sanctions two propaganda outlets, the appropriate response is an unhinged attack on its pro-Western political opponents.
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When a government reacts to sanctions by invoking “deep state,” “global war party,” and mystical foreign forces embedded in Europe, it is not projecting strength.

It is projecting stress & fear.
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Perhaps the most revealing line is this: the opposition supposedly “waits on its knees for instructions from foreign patrons.”

Projection is powerful. 🇷🇺
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If your rival is truly “on the verge of non-existence,” why the need to outlaw them?
Minimizing the opposition has become the core governing ideology.
They just forgot not to say it out loud.
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The irony is almost poetic. GD call the opposition irrelevant, dying, and without support.
🔹Yet they ban opposition parties
🔹Criminalize dissent
🔹Attack NGOs
🔹Limit free assembly
🔹Sanction journalists
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This is language last seen in North Korean🇰🇵 press briefings, not in a country that claims EU candidate status.
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The statement is a masterpiece of ideological creativity. The opposition is:
🔹“stateless”
🔹“hanging between life and death”
🔹an “agency” of foreign masters
🔹part of the “global war party”
🔹controlled by the “deep state”
🔹embedded in “European bureaucracy”
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The illegitimate Georgian Dream Statement:
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Nothing screams “independent journalism” like a ruling party issuing theological manifestos about why its favorite TV channels are sacred vessels of truth.
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🇬🇪🇬🇧Breaking: The “Political Council” of Georgian Dream has decided that when the UK sanctions two propaganda outlets, the appropriate response is an unhinged attack on its pro-Western political opponents.
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This morning, the UK sanctioned Georgia’s largest broadcaster, Imedi TV. No media organization has done more to amplify the regime’s anti-Western propaganda amid the war on Ukraine, or to rationalize Georgia’s descent into violent authoritarianism. 1/9

Georgian Dream MP Viktor Japaridze (right) who held 52% of POSTV shares, also narrowly escaped sanctions (for now) by registering the shares under someone else just days ago.

A short while ago, Irakli Rukhadze (right) also sold his Imedi TV standings for GEL 1,000 / ~ EUR 320.

Quackery with a University Logo: How Bizarre Numerology Offers a Surprisingly Accurate Glimpse of Contemporatory Georgia While the Georgian Dream systematically dismantles the country’s leading universities, it greenlights degrees in “Astrolinguistics” at Bidzina Ivanishvili’s flagship Kutaisi International University.

I do not think I am promising too much if I say that this story will blow your mind -- how esoteric numerology with bizarro claims about Aryan, Chaldeans and Mesopotamia gives you a surprisingly accurate insight of how to understand #Georgia today.
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პეტერ ფიშერი - ჩვენ არ ვართ რეჟიმის შემცვლელი აგენტები, არ გვადარდებს, ვინ მართავს საქართველოს

🇬🇪აი ინტერვიუ ქართულ ენაზე:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Peter Fischer - We are not regime change agents, we don't care who governs Georgia

🇬🇪🇩🇪A long read - but worth your time.
In his interview, German Ambassador to Georgia, Peter Fischer, is refreshingly direct about Georgia’s crisis and Germany’s position.
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www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...

BRIEF SUMMARY ON THE NEW STAGE OF ASSAULT IN 🇬🇪👇🏻

The Georgian Dream wants to speed-run in a gamble, they know that their medium-term is brittle. They no longer care about any popularity, they only care about subjugation through disorganization, managed poverty, and emigration. 1/

📷 @reuters.com

🇬🇪Georgian Dream joins Tehran’s mullahs in celebrating the Islamic Revolution, honoring a request from the Iranian Embassy to light up Tbilisi’s TV tower in the colors of the Iranian flag.
The same regime has killed thousands of its own people.
This is what GD chooses to support.

Georgia, the most persistent civic resistance in contemporary Europe, needs one key ingredient — a viable political alternative. In the absence of a dominant, that means some form of unity among democratic parties.

Such an alternative would swing the process in several ways: 🧵

Nika Gvaramia at court: In a 40-volume case, there are only two sentences where I’m mentioned “In a 40-volume case, there are only two sentences where I am mentioned, and it says they don’t even know whether I was there or not. In my previous case, at least I knew what the prosecut...

Source:
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Terje Helland Online activist and fella. Working to inform and engage. Ukraine. Georgia. US. I support the underdog. Always.

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The West cannot hide behind the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism. By the time reports are written, the damage will already be done. Fact-finding is not a response strategy. Delay now means accepting repression as the new normal.
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Western governments now have a choice. Either respond with real political and economic consequences, or accept responsibility for enabling the criminalization of opposition in Georgia. Statements of concern are no longer enough.
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