They offered help when the neighbors took up arms. Nevertheless, the country may become one of the losers of the war.

Georgia climbed the Democratic ladder for years. Now Stalin’s ghost questions the country’s future. And at home, it is time for a political guerrilla war.

It’s smoldering in Georgia. Not in the well-known American southern state, but in the small country of war-torn Caucasus.

Despite the fact that the country is home to a population of only four million, the country plays a strategically important role. Traditionally, Georgia has been a hub between the West and the East.