Due to the interests of two of my readers, I now know how to spell Tbilisi. I also pay attention to blog posts on this topic. Dan Nexon writes about Georgia.
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Apt. 11d 
Put Tbilisi into the weird part of the news cycle. The mutiny thing is too bizarre, but if you look at even just the post-Soviet part of Georgia’s history, that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
Then an opposition leader said “We’re gonna stage a jailbreak” on live TV, and people marched off to try it. That’s not the way to the EU, folks.
And they’ve got these metal “cells” set up at the main protest and one other place in town, right? So they can keep the streets shut down with a minimum of actual people involved, plus if the gov’t tries to get them out of the way it’s tricky and will provide ugly pictures. So Wednesday night one of the cells gets destroyed by a rickety car. But the way that it gets destroyed means that the car would have had to come at it from inside the protest, i.e., with the tacit or explicit permission of the people protesting.
So what’s going on here? Protesters setting up something to look like a government provocation? And the several dozen guys — big, beefy guys, mostly middle-aged Teamster types — that show up in the following 20 minutes, many carrying sticks of some sort. (I was there from just after the car thing until about an hour later when it seemed to be petering out) What is that all about? Protesters protecting their happening? The gov’t staging a provocation? Who the fuck knows?
It’s a very intransparent situation, with deals getting hatched in proverbial smoke-filled rooms, and nobody even telling a fraction of the truth. It got a bit ugly Wednesday and Thursday, but seems calmer today. What will the weekend bring?
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“What will the weekend bring?”
Rain Saturday morning. Drier in the afternnon with a slight chance of visits to the zoo. Sunday is cooler and dry with a strong chance of an expensive brunch.
(Stay safe.)
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