Republic of Georgia Shows Trump & His Fans Depressingly Normal

... has been nearly the sole major outside actor involved in these ethnic conflicts, and in recent years has acted to allow both Abkhazia and South Ossetia to become de facto independent from Georgia and to become de facto parts of the Russian Federation.... ... Georgian protests against the Abkhaz request for separation from Georgia in 1989 which sparked the rapid acceleration of Zviad Gamsakhurdia‘s nationalist, anti-ethnic minority agenda and “radicalized” Georgian nationalism; it became more ...