Thanks, no doubt there is a difference, but we also know that the US is playing dangerous games in Georgia and it'll be the Georgians who will ultimately suffer. The EU getting in on the act too. The meddling of the west is just appalling, and sometime before too long it's going to come back to bite us. The boat people are a mere harbinger of the massive movements of people due to war, famine, global warming, over-population that will be arising in the next decades.

The picture on this page of the protest shows a good crowd, and 10,000 is probably a bit of an overestimate, but it'll be many thousand.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/15/georgia-protest-foreign-agents-bill-demonstrations-tbilisi-latest-live-news