Congress stops pretending: Time to expose Georgia’s Kremlin puppet master

Congress stops pretending: Time to expose Georgia’s Kremlin puppet master

For years, Washington met Georgia’s democratic decline with familiar language: concern, warnings, diplomatic statements. The result was always the same. Nothing changed. The ruling Georgian Dream party kept consolidating power, independent institutions weakened, and ties with the United States frayed. Now Congress has decided concern is no longer enough. On June 8, the House passed H.R. 7668, the Countering China’s Control of the Caucasus Act. T…