There has been much discussion about what the future holds for Europe and its neighbors if Russia’s invasion of Ukraine succeeds. We already know at least part of the answer, because it’s happening in Georgia.
This is the small country in the Caucasus where President Vladimir Putin first made clear his willingness to use force to re-impose a Russian sphere of control and influence. How that war started remains controversial and I will address the question later. What has happened since then should not happen.
On Monday evening, Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian businessman who made his billions in Russia, gave a speech in which he accused a “global war party” of trying to prevent his country from asserting its freedom and sovereignty.
