The climate activist is supporting a push to overturn the national election by the country’s pro-Western opposition
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of demonstrators who marched on the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on Monday as they protested against what they say was a rigged election last month.
The parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic took place on October 26, with the ruling Georgian Dream party, which advocates pragmatic relations with Russia, winning around 54% of the vote.
Various opposition parties each garnered between 11% and 3%. The opposition has refused to recognize the results of the poll, insisting they were falsified. President Salome Zourabichvili has backed these claims, urging the people to protest and saying Georgia had become a “victim of a Russian special operation.”
In an interview with Reuters, however, she insisted that she was not directly accusing Moscow of meddling, saying only that the “methodology used in support of most probably Russian… types is shown in the election.”
“Of course, you cannot prove anything,” she admitted, while pointing to “clear links” between the ruling party and Russia.
Once again showing the limits of understanding of a liberal worldview informed by western propaganda narratives that cast Russia (and China) as “authoritarian” and these nebulously defined bad anti-liberal actors while the west is cast as unquestionably good at its core despite openly supporting the most obvious and undeniable genocide in decades.
She’s been good on Gaza lately but maybe she like so many in the west is doomed to inhabit an ignorant, anarchistic anti-war-ism that leads to the victims gulping down and vomiting back out western propaganda and suspiciously supporting a number of western uses of violence as “necessary”.