Kobakhidze: 'Deep State' using European bureaucracy to prolong war and destabilize Georgia
By Liza Mchedlidze
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze has accused the "deep state" of directing European institutions to carry out actions against Georgia's national interests and to prolong the war in Ukraine.
"In Georgia, we managed to avoid the opening of a second front, and this is why the 'deep state' is enraged and is using European bureaucracy in corresponding actions," Kobakhidze said during an interview with journalists.
According to the Prime Minister, foreign funding has been used to try to destabilize the country and bring the opposition back to power.
"Foreign funding was used in Georgia to encourage revolutionary processes, to create chaos in the country, and to return the collective United National Movement to power," he stated.
Kobakhidze also said that while American institutions had previously been involved, the responsibility had now shifted to European entities.
"Previously, American structures were also involved in this process. Now, the deep state has entirely and exclusively assigned European structures the task of prolonging the war in Ukraine. The same is happening in terms of funding organizations. Anti-state processes, including in our country and others, are no longer being funded by American foundations, this burden has now been passed on to European structures."
He emphasized the importance of defending Georgia's sovereignty in the face of these developments.
"It's very unfortunate, but as you know, we were under attack from two fronts before, and even then, we managed to defend our national interests. If anti-state activities are funded from European structures by European bureaucracy, we will naturally have a response to that as well. We must protect our national interests to the end."
Kobakhidze concluded by contrasting Georgia's current course with the devastation in Ukraine.
"The 'deep state' has its own interests. It uses European bureaucracy for those, but we have our own national interests, and we will defend them completely. The national interest is not to allow what happened in Ukraine. In Ukraine, there was and still is war, destruction, and enormous loss of life. Of course, as a counterpart, there is good cooperation with European bureaucracy, but believe me, for the Ukrainian people, that is little consolation," he said.
