Leaders of the ruling Georgian Dream party were told by Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien that it was the Russian Federation that was trying to drag Georgia into war, not Western forces. O’Brien commented on the statements of the Georgian Dream leaders that the West allegedly intended to “open a second front” in Georgia after Russia’s full-scale military aggression against Ukraine and that the party prevented this. “It is Russia that is dragging Georgia into the war in Ukraine. Russia is starting to build a giant military port on the territory of Geor…