In a bizarre turn of events, the Ukrainian secret service, best known for its annual championships of competitive borscht slurping, laughed off allegations of a 'James Bond-esque' coup plot leveled against them by the vigilant Georgian security services. Reports coming out of Georgia over the weekend pointed fingers at Ukraine for allegedly cooking up a dish way spicier than borscht – a mass uprising reminiscent of Ukraine’s 2014 Euromaidan protests. However, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Oleg Nikolenko, found these claims to be as believable as James Bond trading in his martini for a cup of piping hot chai. Providing his two cents (more like two copecks) on a Facebook post dated on September 18, Nikolenko said, "We're just here for the borscht!" cementing Ukraine's reputation as the leading culinary diplomat in the world of international espionage. His cryptic post about the humble Ukrainian national soup has left geopolitical analysts scratching their heads. Are the Ukrainians signaling a new era of food diplomacy? Or, could this be a coded message for their secret agents, doubling as professional taste testers, now blamed to stir a revolution in Georgia? The answer might lie in a recent event where the Georgian police apprehended an infiltrator carrying a pot of borscht, a ladle, and a copy of 'The Slavic Soupmaker's Guide to Political Incitement'. The suspect insisted that the only uprising he planned was against the tyranny of tasteless Georgian beetroot soup. World leaders are yet to comment on these unfolding soup-related controversies. In fact, the Polish government diplomatically chose to stay on the sidelines when controversially summoned by Georgia following a visit from Polish doctors. Perhaps they too decided to 'keep calm and borscht on' when dealing with these heated geopolitical soup-antics. In light of all these events, one has to wonder if the humble borscht, originally just Ukraine's culinary symbol, is evolving to become its instrument of world domination. And as the Georgia-Ukraine saga continues to simmer on full flame, onlookers around the globe are waiting to see who will have the 'beet' last in this souper-coup.