The Second Georgian Dream is About to Come True

... the authorities’ conviction that European officials had declared a political war of extermination against them. The UNM and Zourabichvili were acting as Western proxies in this war, and they were the ones who had to be defeated to fulfill the second Georgian dream: Ivanishvili’s team believed that purging Georgia’s government agencies of foreign agents would prevent the West from pushing harmful policies in the country and force it to rebuild relations with Tbilisi on an equitable basis. This approach to fighting for the sovereignty of foreign policy, of course, continued to reflect the ...