RE: re; detailed report22 Mar 2022 23:08
Interesting bit that we all knew….
“Vladimir Putin’s puppet has attacked foreign investment in Georgia and crushed basic human rights,” Texas Republican congressman Pete Olson said from the floor of the US House of Representatives in January 2020 – referring to the current Georgian government’s oligarch backer Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Olson then named Frontera Resources, at the time a few months away from the final arbitration decision.
“A company from Texas, Frontera Resources has been drilling in Georgia for years and years and years. They’ve created great jobs in America, great jobs in Georgia. They’ve created freedom,” Olson continued, before connecting the US company’s contract dispute to Georgia’s broader democratic concerns.
“That was until the government took over all of their operations […] Now, they are drilling zero wells in Georgia,” Olson said. “Of course, the Napeolon of Siberia, Vladimir Putin, is happy to control Georgia’s oil.”
“The protesters in Georgia need our support,” he continued. “Join me in raising our voices for freedom in Georgia.”