(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Georgia’s government has accused the Biden administration of plotting a coup against it, alleging that Samantha Power’s U.S. Agency for International Development is holding workshops in the country to train people in fomenting violence and civil unrest.
According to the Georgian government, Serbian revolution experts were brought into the country by a USAID-sponsored group to “coach civilian activists and representatives of non-profit groups—one large group in particular—who will play a crucial role in an attempt to bring down the government by force.”
“This is a dark day in the history of American assistance to Georgia,” Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili reportedly said on Monday. “It seems the American people’s money is being used to foment revolution, to train people in staging unrest and acts of violence.”
Georgia’s allegations follow the Biden administration reportedly sanctioning the country’s former prosecutor general over his role in promoting the Kremlin’s interests and collaborating with Russian security services.
The Biden administration and the USAID have both denied Georgia’s claims.
However, there is historical precedent for the allegations.
In 2003, the Bush administration used the USAID—often described as a CIA proxy—to foment a coup against the Georgian government. According to antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horton, the coup was assisted by a non-profit organization called the Liberty Institute, which at the time was funded by the USAID and George Soros.
The Liberty Institute, in turn, trained more than 1,000 protestors and created a student group to oppose the government. The result was what’s now referred to as the Rose Revolution.
Moreover, the current head of USAID, Samantha Power, was involved in numerous regime-change efforts—most notoriously, in Libya.
As noted by antiwar.com’s Dave DeCamp, Power pushed for the coup against Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi when she was on Barrack Obama’s National Security Council.
Since the overthrow of Gaddafi, Libya is now a failed state with open slave markets.
“For her efforts to convince Obama to destroy Libya, Power was promoted to UN ambassador, where she served from 2013 to 2017,” DeCamp said in a 2021 article about Power’s appointment to head Biden’s USAID.
“During that time, she pushed for more intervention in Syria and backed the Saudis at the UN while they bombed and starved civilians in Yemen.”
Most recently, Power was accused in February of fomenting unrest in Hungary, where Viktor Orban crushed his globalist opponents in the nation’s 2022 elections.
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
