Caucasian Roulette: Small Power Balance or Great Power War | Lasha Kasradze

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  • @KAUKASUSREISEN
    @KAUKASUSREISEN Місяць тому +12

    The EU never took the time and effort to understand Georgia

  • @richardgraham7055
    @richardgraham7055 Місяць тому +18

    (06:10) "West can't guarantee Georgia's security": Washington--NAYOYO aren't interested in client state security, development, wealth, or human and civil rights.
    Washington's interests are purely instrumental.
    In other words: "How might these collaborators secure Washington power and mobilize wealth for our business lords."
    Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1933:
    “We must make our choice.
    We may have democracy,
    or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,
    but we can’t have both.”

  • @danielhutchinson6604
    @danielhutchinson6604 Місяць тому +19

    Georgia has had their Saakashvili in recent memory.
    Did they already forget that lesson?

    • @katong1953
      @katong1953 Місяць тому +2

      Next, Russia invades Georgia "unprovoked", when Putin woke up one morning and decided to do so because he felt bored.

    • @danielhutchinson6604
      @danielhutchinson6604 Місяць тому

      @@katong1953 The Armored Vehicles that began shooting up South Ossettia early in that morning of August.
      It has been shown that Eyewitness claims they came from Georgia.

    • @henkmagnetic3103
      @henkmagnetic3103 Місяць тому

      @@katong1953 - Rubbish.

  • @rashmigupta9
    @rashmigupta9 Місяць тому +17

    What does pro-West mean exactly? I would sincerely like to understand what they mean by that. Because for a very long time, pro-West is a nice way of saying anti-Russia..

    • @matejhorvat817
      @matejhorvat817 Місяць тому

      NATO what else. America, Canada, the EU are all mostly left-wing neo-liberal policies with a deep bureaucracy, and not to mention these crazy western agendas that are taken up in human rights, you know what I mean, there are crazy migrant policies that will destroy our hereditary culture ,...

    • @petermeter9890
      @petermeter9890 Місяць тому +3

      Yep that's what it means + anti others to varying degrees

    • @prestonyoung3807
      @prestonyoung3807 Місяць тому +3

      Essentially, pro-west means support the policies of the US and Europe, which is neoliberalism and fascism as of late

    • @Way827
      @Way827 Місяць тому

      The western elite who are against the Global Majority; against Latin America, Africa, Asia, and this includes Russia and China. The elites who back war and genocide to destroy most of the planet for a small evil weapons dealing minority that rule the west.

    • @rashmigupta9
      @rashmigupta9 Місяць тому

      @@prestonyoung3807 the guest emphasized they're still very much protest but want normal practical relations with Russia. I want to know what pro West is in their understanding because that's where the whole problem lies. Why can't they call themselves neutral and work with both sides to their benefit instead of feeling the need to declare themselves pro West? I think it's just about getting free access/movement across EU...that's the only thing public understands.

  • @danielezurcher5540
    @danielezurcher5540 Місяць тому +1

    👍👍👍

  • @robertseaborne5758
    @robertseaborne5758 Місяць тому

    Thank you Pascal and Lasha for this valuable discussion. The choice between small power balance and great power war should be a no brainer. However, the notion that small powers can achieve such a balance is doubtful. Ultimately both small (eg; Georgia) and large (eg; India) nation states that still want to have an each way bet, will have to decide which one of the two world orders they prefer to align and do business with. Such a choice is now being made by small and large countries that have already worked out the pros and cons of the Anglo-Saxon unipolar world order and the alternative Eurasian multipolar world order.

  • @charlescarmichael2444
    @charlescarmichael2444 Місяць тому +6

    I stopped listening when Lasha stated that Russia invade Georgia in 2008.

    • @brianwheeldon4643
      @brianwheeldon4643 Місяць тому +3

      I understand why, but I would still listen rather tha break off. Cheers

    • @bluikkso
      @bluikkso Місяць тому +1

      Well, the did invade. Lasha is well aware, pretty sure he has said at least 1-2 times, that Saakashvili had orchestrated that and is not even trying to claim it was somehow "unprovoked".

    • @zo6844
      @zo6844 Місяць тому

      Same here….👍

  • @jean-martinvonsiebenthal2836
    @jean-martinvonsiebenthal2836 Місяць тому

    Nagorno-Karabakh was in many aspects a prelude to the 2022 conflict in several key aspects:
    - it proved that a full blown hot conflict between peer adversaries in Europe was possible without people in the West batting an eyelid (while Western perception might differ, Armenians and Azeris consider themselves close enough to Europe, enough to be in the Eurovision at least).
    - dealing with unrecognized autonomous republics encroaching on your territory is a free pass for ethnic cleasing.
    - heavy use of drone warfare combined with artillery.
    - intense media war rivalling the US's proficiency on one side.
    - one side having a democratically elected government wary of Moscow and the other being a hydrocarbon rich dictatorship has little to no bearing on western ethical concerns.

  • @Luseres-l6m
    @Luseres-l6m Місяць тому +2

    Azerbaijan regained it's territorial sovereignty? Based on what document? If you taking about dream Azerbaijan, that should include part of Georgia too 😉 when one has enough power, they don't need a middle man, or middle man's proposals!

  • @vivianoosthuizen8990
    @vivianoosthuizen8990 Місяць тому

    These small nations want to be part of Europe for one reason only. Their citizens want to be able to live and work in European countries

    • @henkmagnetic3103
      @henkmagnetic3103 Місяць тому

      vivianoosthuizen8990 -
      Another embarrassment coming for EU if EU people head eastward for work/money because of consequences of being invertebrate regarding inability to stand up for your own principles regarding US of A destructive influence. All good at AMSL is it with no Chinese exports, and German economy, prima?
      How long before you wake-up to your stupidity of Ukraine, NATO and US of A. Hopefully before your coffers are empty.
      And then don't blame immigrants for your predicament.
      Stand for nothing, fall for anything.

  • @wynetsang
    @wynetsang Місяць тому

    South Caucasus is very lonely and the cultural tradition of the West is war overcome loneliness.

  • @suegreene1
    @suegreene1 Місяць тому

    Pasiñan renounced to Nagorno Carabaj as,a,form ,to facilitate it's entrance to EU I suppose that the petroleum of Azerbajan was covered with an excuse to cover material interest's I remember that the Russian soldiers had to retire because Pasiñan agreed to turn this land
    over, better ask Alex Christoforou that was there or Alexander Mercouris.

  • @brianwheeldon4643
    @brianwheeldon4643 Місяць тому +1

    What's the influence of the CIA in this region? What is the situation between the hyper rich of the region and the ordinary person? It has a history of great instability I think, which often means it's a place of conflict between east and west, and that means the CIA and likely MI6. involvement.

    • @katong1953
      @katong1953 Місяць тому

      Accordkng to the journalist Lee Camp, Georgia has over 20,000 NGOs. Looks like the CIA has Georgia very well infiltrated.

    • @katong1953
      @katong1953 Місяць тому

      @brianwheeldon. My earlier post says Georgia had over 20,000 NGOs, which is an indication of how much the CIA had Georgia covered. My post was swiftly censored by the CIA's friends.

  • @stavroskarageorgis4804
    @stavroskarageorgis4804 Місяць тому

    I tried. I can't stand listening to that guy.

  • @anti_western_eugenicists
    @anti_western_eugenicists Місяць тому

    Tchetchens most take control of Georgia.