“First of all, there is absolutely no doubt in society; the only people who have doubts are that group whose brains have been washed - including by direct propaganda and disinformation from Brussels - who are being convinced that a parrot lost its feathers because World War I chemical weapons were used in Georgia,” said the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili.

According to Papuashvili, people will believe anything they are told - and in his assessment, this is a method of hybrid warfare.

“People who hold such beliefs go on television and aren’t even embarrassed to talk about it. This shows what a catastrophic situation we are dealing with when we talk about a group whose brains have been completely washed. Tell them that World War I chemical weapons were used - they believe it. Tell them something else, a third thing - they believe everything, because this is one fragment of an ordinary propagandistic hybrid operation, and in general, it is part of hybrid warfare to some extent, when we see that certain European political groups have so thoroughly washed the brains of this vulnerable group of people that they believe anything.

Let me remind you - just so we understand what kind of vulnerable group we are talking about: when the war in Ukraine began, they were imagining certain symbols on walls and underpasses, which turned out to be drawings of cats, and they claimed these were marks showing Russia how to bomb targets, as if some special unit was operating in Georgia. These are the people who were convinced that World War I chemical weapons were used. They were convinced that Saakashvili had dementia, and then convinced that he became the first person in the world to recover from dementia. This is exactly what Brussels is doing today. This is the most horrifying thing - that they are brainwashing ordinary people,” Papuashvili said on Rustavi 2’s program Night Courier.