In subsequent interviews, Kobashizer has pointed out that “the proposal to vote for a referendum to start a war is ironic because it can be seen from the polls that our society desires peace.”

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.com rumored that " Georgia will hold a referendum to decide whether to go to war with Russia" is taken out of context. This statement stems from a proposal by Iraqi Kobashizer, chairman of Georgia's ruling party, in a briefing, which responded to Ukrainian officials' appeal to Russia to open a "second front." In subsequent interviews, Kobashizer has pointed out that “the proposal to vote for a referendum to start a war is ironic because it can be seen from the polls that our society desires peace.”

Related statements "Georgian troops have begun to assemble and may march towards South Ossetia" are unfounded. The Twitter account that initiated the remarks is located in Turkey , and has received many negative comments in Turkey's participatory encyclopedia platform.

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Recently, a netizen posted on Weibo that "Georgia will hold a referendum to decide whether to start a war with Russia. The purpose of the war is to recover Abkhazia and South Ossetia ".

Some netizens also posted a message saying "According to unofficial news, the Georgian army in Caucasus has begun to assemble and may march towards the Russian-occupied South Ossetia."

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Georgia really wants to hold a referendum?

on Twitter, you can further obtain information - the legend comes from Iraqi Kobashizer, chairman of the Georgian Dream Party, and then searched for "Kobashizer". The first Twitter user who posted this news quoted a report by Georgian Public Television Channel 1 (1tv.ge) on the 13th.

Netizens quoted screenshots of Georgian media reports. The report

mentioned that several senior officials of the Ukrainian government previously said it was feasible to open up a "second front" in Georgia. Kobashizer stressed that the Georgian government does not support the proposal to open a "second front". On this basis, he said: "We should ask the people whether they want to open a "second front". If the people are willing, we can discuss it in the future. If they are not willing, we should make different choices and stick to the existing decisions."

Screenshot of the report on the First Channel of Georgia Public Television Station.

locks the time range from September 13 to September 14 in Google to search the above keywords in Russian, which can obtain a report on the matter by the Russian Satellite News Agency, with the subtitle "Politician Kobashizer: Georgia may hold a referendum on the necessity of fighting the Russian Federation."

Screenshot of the Russian Satellite News Agency report.

There is no serious statement on the referendum on the official website of the Georgian Dream Party Office. On the evening of the 14th local time, Kobashizer had already explained his "referendum" proposal in an interview with the program of Georgian TV channel Rustavi 2: "In fact, this proposal is ironic. From the polls, we can see that our society opposes the war. For various reasons, including resources and what this war will bring to the Georgian people, our country does not need war at present."

Report on Georgian TV channel Rustavi 2 is screenshot.

Georgian army gathers and will march into South Ossetia?

searches keywords such as "Georgia", "army", and "South Ossetia" in English on Twitter. Aceu™, the first user who posted the remarks and provided the accompanying pictures, said that "it is reported that the Georgian army is moving at the Ossetia border."

Screenshot of comments from netizens on Twitter.

cannot find relevant reports when searching for the above keywords on Google. Using Google lens and Yandax to reverse search the picture of this tweet. You can find that this picture has been in the Wikipedia gallery since 2008, used to explain the South Ossetia War, and is not used for recent reports.

Wikipedia entry screenshot.

In addition, in the retweets and comments of this tweet, many netizens refuted:

Twitter netizens left a message: "I am in Georgia, this is fake." Tweet specific positions show that the account is located in Georgia.

"Georgia has no reports on this matter, nor has there been a referendum on military action against Abkhazia and South Ossetia. I think this is part of a planned false propaganda campaign, suggesting that if Russia fails in Ukraine, the world will collapse."

It is worth noting that the Twitter user Aceu™ who posted the news, whose account is located in Turkey, searching the above keywords with Turkish , was able to find that the original posting of the remark was an account called lt col temmuz, and is also the target of Aceu™'s attention.

Twitter user lt col temmuz comment screenshot.

In the homepage of user lt col temmuz, there are a lot of comments that do not indicate the source. The account can be retrieved and the specific evaluation of this account can be locked in the Turkey's participatory encyclopedia website Ekşi Sözlük.

Theme Post Introduction said that this account is "an interesting phenomenon on Twitter, often reporting on things that didn't happen and no one asked the source."

"He insulted dissidents with ignorance."

To sum up, the statement that "Georgia will hold a referendum to decide whether to go to war against Russia" comes from Georgian Dream Party Chairman Kobashizer, who interpreted the proposal on the 14th as an "ironing statement" and said that "Georgian society desires peace." At the same time, there is no authoritative report that supports the "Georgian army is moving at the South Ossetia border."

column editor: Zhao Hanlu Text editor: Lu Xiaochuan Title picture source: Tuchuang Creative Picture editor: Yong Kai

Source: Author: Pengpai News