Political unrest among NATO member wannabes is a problem. When the pro-Russia Georgian Dream party became the dominant political force in Georgia, the country’s citizens were unhappy. Recently, that dissatisfaction with a party that has grown more oppressive and less democratic brought thousands to protest in the streets of major cities. Tensions came to a head when the pro-Moscow political ruling faction decided to pull out of negotiations for European Union membership.
Georgia Could Be Another Ukraine
What the world has seen in many former Warsaw Bloc nations is disquieting. We all remember how the crisis in Ukraine began. In April 2014, seemingly with little notice by the Barack Obama administration, Russia invaded Crimea and the Donbas and Luhansk Oblasts and stayed. But the prelude to that invasion was Russia’s claim that Ukraine was hostile to…
