“I said they might as well devour each other, and now they have started doing exactly that. Let us watch and at least derive some amusement from it. What they used to do to their own country, they are now doing to one another. So let us observe and enjoy the spectacle,” Speaker of Parliament Shalva Papuashvili said while commenting on the opposition alliance and the United National Movement.

Papashvili compared the United National Movement’s position within the opposition alliance to the classic Georgian film Blue Mountains.

“I do not know; like in Blue Mountains, they can no longer figure out whether they are here or there. They will eventually make up their minds. We should watch this comedy, much like Blue Mountains, that they have been putting on for us for quite some time.

In a way, it is encouraging because it shows that the external forces organizing these people are not particularly wise and fail to calculate even simple matters, which is why they end up in situations like this. What we are witnessing now, this circus, also says something about who stands behind them.

When they travel to Brussels and various European countries, these people are presented as representatives of the Georgian people and their interests. They are portrayed both as political circus performers and as representatives of the country. This also reveals something about the people sitting in Brussels and in certain other capitals who continue to place their bets on them.

Did they not support them during the 2024 elections? Did they not tell people to vote for them? Are resolutions not drafted at their request and in coordination with them? The Georgian people should also see clearly what we are dealing with here.

This gives us insight into another issue as well: when Brussels and other forces backing them cannot understand even the simplest matters, can you imagine entrusting them with international relations and geopolitics? That is why there is such disorder in the world today and why there is war in Ukraine,” Papuashvili said.

In this context, he linked developments within the Georgian opposition to broader international trends.

“What is happening within the opposition is a miniature example of what is happening in the world due to the actions of the very same forces that we refer to as the ‘Global War Party’ or the ‘Deep State.’ The name may differ, but the essence is the same. These are people whose model of governance we see reflected in the radical opposition.

They have turned politics into a circus, and they are doing the same thing on the international stage. That is precisely why the global security system has collapsed,” Papuashvili stated.