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PREVIEW: GEORGIA: Conversation with Anatol Lieven of Quincy, traveling in the South Caucasus, re the Georgia Dilemma -- West or East, Biden or Trump? More of this later.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEW: GEORGIA: Conversation with Anatol Lieven of Quincy, traveling in the South Caucasus, re the Georgia Dilemma -- West or East, Biden or Trump? More of this later.

1881 The end of the People's Will

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, there is another way.

0:29.0

This is John Batcheter, conversation with my colleague Anatole, he's traveling, he's in the South Caucasus, in Tablise, the capital of Georgia.

0:38.0

And he presents the Georgian dilemma.

0:42.0

Stated very clearly, the Georgian dilemma, the EU wants Georgia to join Georgia Black Sea Basin

0:50.2

country, Georgia the the original disruption.

0:53.7

That was the warning that we were headed into rough waters in the Black Sea.

0:59.5

Now George's dilemma, West, East, Biden, Trump. Is that until leaving? More of this later.

1:07.0

The European Union is putting great pressure on Georgia, as is the West in general, you know, really to join the Western camp against Russia.

1:20.0

But as one support of the government here said, so, you know, we commit ourselves

1:28.2

absolutely to Western strategy.

1:32.0

Trump becomes president and he abandons that strategy and abandons us.

1:37.6

And then where are we?

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