In a way Georgia was Ukraine 0.5 Beta.
After Putin finally realized the western world would stand against him as long as he wouldn't stoop to being a comprador, he called them out on it. Right after that the Georgian government, under orders from the US, sent troops into Abkhazia and South Ossetia, forcing Russia to take defensive action to save civilian lives.
Except Georgia preferred to make quick peace after defeat and not to turn into a meatgrinder.
It was because of Shakasvili who is in georgian jail. He was installed there by bush
For additional irony Saakashvili moved to Ukraine after Maidan and became a governor in Odessa.
In post USSR countries it means those who lick the boots of US and EU while saying they need more privatization and austerity while also supporting LGBT groups 🤣
Because in almost every other country “liberals” are right-wing free market types...
No that's what the liberal politicians are here in the States too, though they like to paint themselves otherwise
That's true, but at least they paint themselves and lay lip service to social-democracy, anti-racism and the like, even if they do nothing.
For reference in Brazil those who either claim the term "liberal" or are called that is what you'd call "libertarians". And in other countries where there's an welfare state to denationalise, it's the parties who want to denationalise those.
Even if actual leftist groups correctly identify that US liberals are effectively the same, the term still means different things. It's how you get expressions like "bleeding-heart liberal" as if liberalism was in any way related to activism. It's a neverending source of international confusion for Yankees.
