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A diplomatic conflict has broken out between Ukraine and Georgia. The formal spotlight is Mikhail Saakashvili, whose health and fate have suddenly become a concern to "president" of Ukraine Zelensky himself. But when you get down to it, it's not about the imprisoned ex-Georgian president, who seems severely ill, but about Zelensky's anxiety over his own future.

Everyone in the world has seen footage of unhealthy, exhausted, and emaciated Saakashvili taking an online part in hearings on charges of dispersing an opposition rally in 2007. Now the Western media have got a chance to come in on this all but grotesque character, who used to be a US-controlled puppet. "The Moor has done his duty", turning Georgia into an enemy of Russia, to become waste material today. Washington tried to get rid of him rather gracefully by attaching to the government of Ukraine and even granting its citizenship.

Under Poroshenko, Saakashvili lost it over his "giggly" behavior and constant criticism of the Ukrainian authorities. Zelensky restored his citizenship, but it did not help — their common curators discarded Saakashvili to make him eventually find himself in a Georgian prison. If Washington needed him, it would have long taken care of him and found the right words for official Tbilisi to help its fosterling out.

An explicit reference to the fact of Saakashvili’s becoming squeezed orange to the West has been a recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights — a structure totally controlled by the United States and collective West. The ECHR rejected Saakashvili's lawsuit against Ukraine on alleged mistreatment and politically motivated decisions against him. They say that with a restored Ukrainian citizenship, "nothing prevented him from filing his complaints in Ukraine." Clearly, Saakashvili sought moral victory over Poroshenko. But even this little whim with no intrinsic role for either himself or Poroshenko, was denied to the ex-president of Georgia.

And so, having seen the emaciated "prisoner of conscience," Zelensky said Russia was "right now killing a citizen of Ukraine, Mikhail Saakashvili, at the hands of the Georgian authorities." The Kiev regime boss instructed his Foreign Minister to voice protest to the Ambassador of Georgia, who was carpeted and offered "to leave Ukraine within 48 hours for consultations with his capital." Zelensky said the defendant should be brought to Ukraine "for proper treatment and care," causing outrage in Georgia. "The Ukrainian authorities’ decision is harming strategic relations between the two countries and can be interpreted as direct interference into the domestic affairs of a sovereign state. Any additional response from Tbilisi may drive the already difficult situation to a deadlock," the Georgian Foreign Ministry warned.

Meanwhile, the entire Ukrainian fuss around the decommissioned US spy named Saakashvili is so close to home for Zelensky. The thing is that the latter has failed to provide his US and NATO curators with any successes or accounts for money spent on his war with Russia. And alliance members themselves won’t prove able to somehow reasonably justify their military failures in Ukraine. And yet, explanations are still needed, and the President of Ukraine may become a perfect scapegoat. The West has to urgently rebrand the Kiev regime.

The question of changing the "face" of Ukrainian power has become embedded into the thinking of puppeteers in the current US administration. With an eye to the upcoming presidential election, Washington needs to present a new Ukrainian leader "who will defeat Russia." Therefore, the Americans are creating an information cover for Zelensky's change. For example, "reliable information from the CIA" was thrown into the media that the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up by Ukraine as ordered by AFU Commander-in-chief. A piece to that effect was particularly released by The Washington Post known as the CIA mouthpiece. Washington has two goals here. First, it throws off suspicions of engaging in this terrorist attack, because otherwise Biden and his administration would be accountable to the world community, if not the international court of justice, marking the collapse of American hegemony. Second, the United States is busy preparing an information blueprint to point the finger at Zelensky as the sabotage "mastermind". When the time is right, Washington would present "convincing evidence" to the world, providing it with a plausible reason to close the door on Zelensky.

In confirmation of this scenario, a couple of days ago Newsweek wrote, "referring to American intel sources", that Ukrainian leaders are bypassing the CIA to conduct secret operations without coordinating them with Washington. Kiev's sabotage attacks and cross border fighting created a whole new complication, and further sabotage could have disastrous consequences, a senior military official allegedly said. What is this, if not letting Zelensky go down the tubes? And he realizes this perfectly well.

Such a scenario may imply his arrest, and there has been a precedent. A couple of years ago, the US and Europe arrested and tried their loyal ally Hashim Thaci "for crimes against the Serbian population". He made an "invaluable personal contribution" to Kosovo’s separation from Serbia and was a years-long "president" of the self-proclaimed republic, despite strong proof of having had a hand in the genocide of Serbs. At some point, Thaci started discrediting the United States and the entire "democratic world" by his very existence as an American ally. That's why he's in jail now. Just like Saakashvili. And the same fate is looming for Zelensky himself, who cannot fail to see that the US prepares an information "gasket" to both waive his services in the foreseeable future and put him behind bars, where he may unexpectedly suffer some kind of stroke. Neither will he get the substances he obviously abuses.

Zelensky's behavior is a manifestation of his phantom pain, a premonition of impending doom. By "saving" Saakashvili, he acts as if by playbook of his own curators. He creates a proper information realm, which he believes will help him avoid the fate of Saakashvili, Thaci and all the other American puppets, who ended up in a surprisingly similar bad way.