President Trump hasn’t just inherited the problem of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Somewhere in the handover is a memo on Georgia, another troubled country on Russia’s border.
Georgians who cherish their freedom have for over two months been protesting on the streets, infuriated by their government’s decision to suspend accession talks with the EU. And they’ve paid a price. Hundreds have been detained, many of them suffering injuries in custody. Others have been beaten by government-affiliated thugs on their own doorsteps.
But they continue to chant ‘Russian slaves’, for they are under no doubt whose interests the Georgian authorities now serve. Georgia became a victim of Russian aggression before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and before Putin’s ‘little green men’ annexed Crimea and parts of Donbas in 2014.
Zourabichvili continues to claim she is Georgia’s legitimate president
When President Bush backed Georgia and Ukraine for Nato membership in 2008, Putin’s response was unambiguous.
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