Visiting Tbilisi offered a vivid reminder that American and European meddling in Georgia’s internal affairs risk repeating the same disastrous foreign policy that led to Ukraine’s devastation. I spent an intense few days in Georgia’s capital June 4–7 as part of a forum organized by the City of Tbilisi Municipality. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze opened the conference, which brought together a range of realist thinkers, including Jeffrey Sachs, who dialed in and spoke at the opening ceremony, and the veteran U.S. diplomat Jack Matlock, who, at a spritely and irrepressible 95, made the trip all the way from Chicago.
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