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Andro's avatar

This is good. I'd just say that the carrot in the form of a military aid is not something 2025 version of GD will view as a carrot. If they have ever.

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Marco North's avatar

This is a great piece, and I appreciate how balanced you are with it. I do have a tough question though - AOC is given a lot of credit in this for being savvy and possessing great clarity on complex foreign matters. I think you are giving her an excessive benefit of the doubt. Every time I hear her speak, it is sound bites, it is vague nuggets that are a knee-jerk reaction to what paper tiger she is arguing with. I remember when she first got elected, and how she had a foreign policy plan on her website...that got deleted a day later and was never replaced. She is charismatic, she is joyous and feisty and fun loving, but I do not believe she is a savvy foreign policy personality. You give her too much credit.

The only other thought I have is that, even as clumsy and backwards as this situation is - the fact that the US blinked and supported the people here (however messy that act is) it does mean "we matter" at the end of the day. If the act was dismissed, that would be a victory for GD. It could be argued that this is a hot air, smoke and mirrors victory for the future of Georgia.

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