Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze posted yesterday on Facebook, his denunciation of a pattern of violence and extremism in global politics, specifically the “liberal fascism, radicalism, polarization, hatred, and murderous attacks on politicians” in the U.S. and Europe.
Earlier, in May, he had exposed the assassination threat privately communicated to him by an EU official, the week after the May 15 assassination attempt against Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico as being part of the “Global War Party,” and yesterday he referred to them again in Azeri news agency Caliber. Kobakhidze and his ruling Georgia Dream party have, contrary to snide characterizations in the West, documented in public the names, funding, and actions of the “Global War Party.”
Kobakhidze had been threatened because of the Transparency Law, that is, Georgia’s action to prevent the secretive foreign funding of social and political change within Georgia. The role of foreign-run media and “civic societies” in creating an enemy image of a country’s leaders—as Slovakian authorities are investigating in the “lone assassin” case of Juraj Cintula’s shooting of Fico on May 15—is a critical line of inquiry. Among others, Georgia, Slovakia, and Hungary have taken positive measures to expose and/or end the foreign funding of media.
