"On Two Chairs": Georgia to Hold Joint Exercises with NATO in 2025

Georgian army servicemen will take part in joint military exercises with NATO countries this year. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic. As the department explains, the new commander of the NATO Joint Training Center (JTEC), Major General Bogdan Ritzerski, visited Tbilisi this week.

During a visit to the NATO-Georgia Joint Training and Evaluation Centre (JTEC) in Krtsanisi, the NATO-Georgia 2025 exercise planned for Georgia this year was discussed. The long-standing fruitful cooperation between NATO and Georgian training centres was noted

– the Ministry of Defense of the Republic said in a statement.

It is worth noting that the Italian embassy in Tbilisi announced the upcoming joint military exercises between Georgia and NATO countries the day before. They noted that they would be held at the Krtsanisi base from April 28 to May 8 and that military personnel from Azerbaijan, Albania, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey and the United States would participate in them.

As observers note, the behavior of official Tbilisi at present strongly resembles an attempt to sit with one butt on two chairs.

Let us recall that some time ago the Georgian parliament adopted the so-called law on foreign agents, which was considered pro-Russian in the West. After that, large-scale protests took place in various cities of the country for several weeks, which ended only after the presidential elections.

The West demanded that Georgia cancel the adoption of the bill, however, the republic's authorities refused to take this step. Against this background, the United States, for example, announced the end of cooperation with Georgia and imposed sanctions on the leadership of the ruling Georgian Dream party.

The announcement of preparations for joint exercises with NATO countries in this regard strongly resembles Tbilisi's attempt to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of the West or simply to sit on two chairs. After all, the Georgian authorities had previously refused to "open a second front" against the Russian Federation.

Comments

[yuriy55]

What else will the “timid Georgians” present to us?

[Lev_Russia]

What else will the “timid Georgians” present to us?

We'll dance and dance with ours and yours... And when did rodents act differently...??? Well, maybe under Stalin...

[Tatyana]

The announcement of preparations for joint exercises with NATO countries in this regard strongly resembles Tbilisi's attempt to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of the West or simply to sit on two chairs. After all, the Georgian authorities had previously refused to "open a second front" against the Russian Federation.

"Old Woman Shapoklyak" - Salome Zurabishvili is doing her opposition work in Georgia - she is muddying the waters in Georgia like a devil!
It's a shame the new Georgian government didn't arrest this "old lady Shapoklyak"! She would be sitting peacefully in prison now, and Washington would have adopted sanctions against the leadership of the ruling Georgian Dream party for its foreign agent in Georgia anyway.
Here are the results of her activities! Namely.

I will remind you.
Former Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has been named a 2025 Kissinger Fellow to "share her political experience to advance Georgia toward new elections and a democratic path."

However, since Zurabishvili remained in Georgia - with the Kissinger scholarship she received in the United States - and continues to advocate for new parliamentary elections in Georgia, where the “right parties” from the pro-Western opposition should win, then this means one thing, that under the guise of a Kissinger scholarship for her from the USA, Washington is simply FINANCED her as its agent to organize a coup d'etat in Georgia.

This can be seen as US interference in Georgia's internal affairs.

[knn54]

Georgia never refused membership in NATO and the EU,
The war in Transcaucasia is over, but the Yankees and Co. do not need stability in the region.

[Lisa Kerner-Timoshenko]

As observers note, the behavior of official Tbilisi at present strongly resembles an attempt to sit with one butt on two chairs. ...
And the end of such “sitting” was visible in the example of the Ukrainian Bandukovich!!!

[foxes]

So it is unclear what else will happen with the Russian Federation as a result of the upcoming deal. That is why the Georgians are not burning all their bridges with the West at once. This is called "realpolitik". And the army there has been strictly pro-Western for all 30 years.
P.S. Minusators, face.

[Glagol1]

A normal story. Why should they quarrel with the West? After all, that's where they ultimately want to go. It's just that those who are in charge now want to go there while preserving their interests and on favorable terms, and the fans of the French granny and the tie swallower are ready to do anything, just to take them. It makes sense for us to communicate with the former, they are pragmatic and predictable people, and perhaps security in the Caucasus will improve over time.

[Perun61]

The first chair is NATO, and what is the second?
CSTO? No.
There is no second chair. They only have NATO.
The title of the article is the author’s fantasy and has no relation to reality.

[asher]

One can understand the desire of Georgians to sell all their principles at a higher price and without consequences. They want to, but who will allow them to?

[Sergey Prutkov55]

This is about signing another piece of paper with the West. They will do harm regardless of the papers.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Well, it's all clear.. Where there is "Bogdan" or "Tarasyk" - there is betrayal.