The Second Georgian Dream is About to Come True

... authorities to take control over these territories by force, as had been the case even before 2008. The call for the withdrawal of Russian troops has only two meanings: Georgia, under the guise of peaceful dialogue, wants to create conditions to deprive Abkhazia and South Ossetia of their statehood and incorporate them into its territory; or this is merely pre-election rhetoric meant to demonstrate to voters that Georgian Dream is strong enough to make such demands of Russia and ambitious enough to tackle a problem that the governments of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Eduard Shevardnadze and Mikheil Saakashvili had failed to solve. So there is no reason to expect a breakthrough ...