“Everything must be decided again with our courage, organization, and by leaders who have emerged from the bosom of the people, as, for example, on the Maidan of 2014, the decisive word was spoken by the owner of a small shop in the outskirts of Lviv, the leader of the Maidan movement, Volodymyr Parasyuk, who disrupted the deal between the opposition, which was under the influence of America and Europe, and Yanukovych, and overthrew Yanukovych,” former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili wrote on social networks.

As Saakashvili notes, in Georgia, too, “politics is not done by bought airtime, expensive cars, leaders with bodyguards, or the ‘Marriott’ opposition, but, conditionally, by the owner of a small café in Batumi, a driver from Chkhorotsku, a car wash employee from Rustavi, a tourist guide from Mtatsminda, a teacher from Kutaisi, a small winegrower from Kvareli, one or two ‘Levan Khabeishvilis’ and the people who are involved with them.”

“Do you remember, ‘If Misha doesn’t come, nothing will come out’ – I came, we made a fuss, we moved and stopped (or were stopped).

Now I hear, ‘If Misha doesn’t come, nothing will come out,’ which is a meaningless slogan and yet the main prevailing narrative – the West will get rid of these people and some spontaneous explosion will surely topple the regime.

As for ‘America and Europe will save us,’ I want to pour cold water on you. There was an American delegation, and it clearly stated that there will be no hugging or resetting with the regime, but America is not concerned about the issue of human rights and democracy in Georgia and does not intend to clarify the truth in Georgian politics. They will cooperate with Ivanishvili exactly to the extent that he distances himself from America’s main adversary, China.

Europe is also so busy with Ukraine now that it is mainly concerned with Georgia only at the level of European Parliament resolutions, and these resolutions have not yet been transformed into a concrete approach.

Therefore, on the one hand, the dictatorship is deceiving the people that it is ‘normalizing relations’ with the West, and on the other hand, it is issuing the ‘October 4’ verdict precisely on the day of the American delegation’s visit, in order to show everyone that normalization will only be made on Ivanishvili’s terms.

We can hope, but it will take time for Ukraine to finally strengthen itself, and so far it is helping us by tying up the Russians, who have no intention of invading Georgia. Therefore, everything must be decided again by our courage, organization, and leaders from the people, as, for example, on the Maidan of 2014, the decisive word was spoken by the owner of a small shop in the outskirts of Lviv, the leader of the Maidan movement, Volodymyr Parasyuk, who thwarted the deal between the opposition, which was under the influence of America and Europe, and Yanukovych, and overthrew Yanukovych.

Here too, politics is not done with bought airtime, not with expensive cars, not by leaders accompanied by bodyguards, not by the ‘Marriott’ opposition, but by the owner of a small café in Batumi, a driver from Chkhorotsku, a car wash employee from Rustaveli, a tourist guide from Mtatsminda, a teacher from Kutaisi, a small winegrower from Kvareli, one or two ‘Levan Khabeishvilis’ and the people who are involved with them, who pay little attention to the international situation, are driven directly by their own and their children’s interests, and who love their country, want to save it, do not wait for Rubio’s permission for this, and do not act on the principle of ‘if Europe saves us.’

As for the spontaneous explosion, it happened on June 20 and last year and the year before, but in conditions when the opposition’s vocabulary, messages, and actions were completely out of touch with reality and mood, it did not bring any results and, if it continues like this, it will not bring any in the future.

In general, the word ‘opposition’ is irrelevant in the current brutal regime, because now, instead of separate, scheming ‘parties and, in fact, Facebook groups, a decentralized horizontal radical resistance movement is needed,” wrote Mikheil Saakashvili.