Georgia at the crossroads. Geopolitics as a smokescreen for the democratic crisis

In the public debate in Georgia, geopolitics plays a function disproportionate to the country's real impact on the global stage. The exaggerated narratives about external threats and "historic missions" of the West or Russia frequently replace a serious analysis of interior problems. Politicians, alternatively of accounting for their own inability, like to empathize with patriotic slogans and alarming visions. Meanwhile, the real crisis is going on inside the country –...