Georgia stands at a crossroads. The parliamentary elections on Oct. 26 were presented as a choice between a creeping authoritarianism and a drift into the Kremlin’s orbit on one hand, and Georgia’s EU aspirations on the other. A group of pro-European parties hoped to unseat the Georgian Dream, a party led by a controversial oligarch with business ties in Russia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, which has been in power since 2012. During the election campaign, Georgian Dream has been playing on the people’s trauma of the 2008 war with Russia, scaring the voters with images of war-torn Ukraine to justify co…