The US plans to expand its military presence in Georgia. This is evidenced by published on the government procurement website the order for the erection in this country of buildings for use for the Ministry of defense. Earlier about necessity of creation in Georgia of American military bases “to strengthen the security of the country” said a number of Georgian politicians. Experts note that the activity of the U.S. army on the territory of Georgia threatens the security of Russia, which is trying to “capture claw”.
The corps of engineers of the U.S. Army ordered the development of a business plan to attract private contractors for the construction on the territory of Georgia and other nearby regions of the South Caucasus structures in the interests of defense of the United States.
In the order notes that in this territory it is necessary to build administrative buildings and infrastructure, including training centers, aircraft hangars, fire stations, offices, laboratories, canteens and facilities for repair and storage techniques
Contracts for design and construction of the required facilities will be concluded for a period of three years with possibility of extension up to a maximum of five years. Contract amount set at $ 30 million per year.
Now on the territory of Georgia, according to open sources, the us military bases there. However, discussion of the necessity of their occurrence in recently conducted quite often.
In early September the then Chairman of the Georgian Parliament David Usupashvili, speaking about the priorities of the “Republican party”, declared the advisability of the presence in the country of us military bases.
Before NATO membership becomes a reality, Georgia should take care of the placement of the US military base in Georgia. We believe that today, in 2016, is for Georgia is of vital importance, — the politician said in the air of the Georgian TV channel “Rustavi-2”.
The importance of placing American military bases in Georgia reported to the journalists and the other the leader of the “Republican party” Levan Berdzenishvili.
— Our party is a supporter to the territory of Georgia was located in American military bases — it will be a kind of guarantor of security of our Motherland, – he said shortly before the elections to the Georgian Parliament, which took place on 8 October. It should be added that by results of vote the Republicans only gained 1.55% and of the seats in Parliament received.
Against the initiative Usupashvili made by the leader of “Democratic movement” Nino Burjanadze. She stated that the appearance of American military bases on the territory of Georgia will divide the country “into two territorial parts, where on the one side are Russian bases, on the other — American.”
Professor, Department of theory and history of politics, faculty of political science of Moscow state University Sergei Chernyakhovsky believes that the US is thus trying to strengthen its position and weakening Russia’s influence in the middle East, and the Georgian political elite is to get a guarantee from the us government and earn extra money.
— America needs in order to establish a foothold of military influence in Georgia, near Turkey, Iran and our Northern Caucasus. This is the point of influence half of the Middle East. In addition, entrenched in Georgia, the Americans cut off Russia from an ally like Armenia, and influence on Azerbaijan, — said Chernyakhovsky. — But Georgia is not necessary, it only needs the Georgian leadership. If the current leadership agrees on the presence of a base, it gets some guarantees from the United States, earns some dividends and is included in “cross-border anti-positioning”.
Political sociologist Gennady Kozyrev said that Russia actually “take in a pincer movement” because the military bases NATO and the United States in recent times are located in many bordering our country States.
All facilities being built in Europe and not only threaten Russia’s security. Even though they are radar, and is aimed at tracking, they can be transformed into an attack. Recently, Vladimir Putin said that in Poland and Romania are built of the base of a defensive character, but they can be easily converted into offensive weapons. Such plants are a real danger, he says.
In response to Romania we have deployed in Kaliningrad, “Iskander”. Now we have to make a defensive system against Georgia. Our country actually “take in a pincer movement,” and it forces us to spend more resources on defense.
Kozyrev noted that Georgian elite benefits from the construction of us bases.
— Georgia itself can not solve your questions, it is quite a small country. The Georgian elite lives on us subsidies — it is in the auspices of the United States — said the expert.
It is worth noting that U.S. forces in recent times carried out joint military exercises with Georgia. The Western media have already dubbed these maneuvers “sashimi Russia.” So, in the last exercise, in may this year on the basis of Vaziani near Tbilisi was attended by about 650 soldiers from the United States, about 150 British and 500 Georgian soldiers. The Ministry of defence of Georgia noted that this is “one of the largest exercises ever held in the country” with the largest concentration of troops and military equipment.
Talk about placing in territory of Georgia of U.S. military bases rose and earlier. So, in the fall 2014 in a us media appeared information about the fact that Tbilisi has offered the Washington post on the territory of Georgia the center of combat training moderate militants in the international coalition against ISIL*. Georgian officials tried to refute this information, stating that they “exclude the possibility of participation of Georgian troops in the conflict in Syria.”
Earlier in the same 2014, the then U.S. Secretary of defense Chuck Hagel during a visit to a Georgian military base in Krtsanisi said that Georgia will build a new military base of NATO.
According to several Georgian media, published in 2009, American military facilities — two terrestrial and one marine base, was expected to appear in Georgia in 2015. The initiative lobbied a number of congressmen and former Vice President dick Cheney. However, this project was never executed.
It is worth noting that despite the absence on the territory of Georgia of military bases of the U.S. army are operating in the country of the laboratory, the organization which took an active part the American State Department. The most prominent object, the erection of which from the us budget has been spent more than $450 million, is a Center of health, and Richard Lugar, located near Tbilisi.
At its base is the Control of medical research of the US army, which is directly accountable to the Pentagon’s military unit, according to public information, research to ensure the health of American troops in places of their dislocation.
The Lugar center, according to media reports, were handed to the Americans a number of virus strains, which is characteristic for the territory of Georgia, including the most dangerous pathogens like anthrax spores. In addition, experts have noted the extremely suspicious frequency of outbreaks of African swine fever in the Russian regions adjacent to Transcaucasia.
In particular, in 2013, Gennady Onishchenko, being the head of Rospotrebnadzor, openly admitted the fact that the mass epidemic of swine plague that hit the population in the South of Russia, may be the result of the biological laboratories of the Center for Lugar.
