The former Soviet Republic of Georgia held parliamentary elections this week at which the US puppet President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party apparently did not gain enough seats to retain a majority in parliament. Billionaire oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili’s disparate coalition will — for now — control parliament barring some last-minute maneuvering by Saakashvili. Ivanishvili spread millions around dozens of K Street lobbying firms in apparently successful efforts to convince Washington that he would be just as loyal to Washington as the tie-munching, war-with-Russia-starting, wild-eyed Saakashvili. Many commentators would like to point to Saakashvili’s defeat as a black eye for US interventionist foreign policy — … Continue reading Georgia: Myth Versus Reality