Following up on NATO’s rebuke of the Georgian government’s embrace of illiberal practices, a US State Department official said in a statement to Eurasianet that Tbilisi needs to show a “demonstrable commitment to democracy” or otherwise risk shutting “the door on Georgia’s European future.” The statement, given exclusively to Eurasianet, is perhaps one of the clearest public expressions to date that Western patience with the Georgian Dream-dominated government’s policy direction is running low. “We – and the EU and many European countries – have been clear that there would be consequences for …