“The special gravity of this… cannot be overstated. Destroy colleges and universities as sanctuaries of uncircumscribed, purposefully exploratory thought and speech – academic freedom in the common parlance – and you are a good way along to destroying the nation’s intellectual dynamism, and so the nation’s future,” writes Lawrence.

"How can the government just send in this riot police like we are in a war zone here. Or sending snipers on the roof of the colleges? That, to me, was like degrading. And we have the audacity to say we are a democratic nation? Really? How so?" Oualaalou wondered.

"Well, that's just the double standard but also it shows even a much bigger problem, and that is the end of American dominance and influence on the global stage is coming to an end. It is a reality we cannot shy away from facing," Oualaalou emphasized.

“In the long term, the US is hurting itself more than anyone else, because once the US dollar becomes less important, that means that there will be an excess of dollars and that inflation of US dollars that we see in the US - the constant printing of money - is going to be increasingly felt at home in the US,” Dr. Mohammad Marandi, a professor of English literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran, told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour.

“By effectively attacking India in this manner [the US] is creating a great wider gap between itself and that country at a time when we are approaching the next Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit and also the next BRICS summit. And, Russia, in particular, and China and Iran also, are very keen on using the coming months to coordinate with one another to create those institutions,” Marandi emphasized.

"There’s no concrete proposal for it here and now. If it comes up, a concrete proposal, we can take it into review,” added Jonson," Breaking Defense quoted Jonson as saying.

“This is absolute, 100 percent interference of other countries in the internal politics of the sovereign independent state of Georgia,” Maria Zakharova said.