Shalva Papuashvili: If we had listened to the bureaucrats from Brussels, imposed sanctions, introduced visas, closed the skies, and gone for escalation, today we would be a war-torn, devastated country

If we had listened—even to some representatives of the European Commission and Eurocrats—and imposed sanctions, today we would be a war-torn, devastated country, said the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, Shalva Papuashvili.

According to Papuashvili, foreign politicians will not think about the Georgian people because they have their own interests.

“Today, the spokesperson of this bureaucracy is lecturing the Georgian people on morality. If we had listened to the bureaucrats from Brussels, imposed sanctions, introduced visas, closed the skies, and escalated the situation—if we had listened to Baltic politicians and certain other representatives of foreign governments—today we would be a war-torn, destroyed country. This is a clear exposure of the immoral policy being carried out in Europe’s name by some non-European politicians, including those with a Soviet mentality, both toward Georgia and Ukraine, using Ukraine as a puppet to secure their own safety.

“Let me remind you—not only the head of Latvia’s intelligence service, but even the President of Latvia urged us to impose sanctions on Russia. Latvia, which enjoys NATO protection, was calling on Georgia—whose territory is partly occupied by Russia—to escalate. Had we followed the advice of the Latvian President and others pushing for escalation, today Georgia would be at war. Later, those same politicians would stand abroad and say pretty words like: ‘What a beautiful nation disappeared from the face of the earth with its culture,’ and maybe we’d be allocated a spot in a museum to honor our culture and memory.

“At the moment the Latvian President was calling for sanctions, was he thinking about the consequences of such reckless calls? He wasn’t. And that’s the starting point—something we already knew—but this once again proves it: no one in the world will care about our interests except our people and the government they elected,” Papuashvili stated.