The de facto leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party stunned Georgians — who are rarely shocked by the turbulent political situation in the country — by declaring that Georgia should “apologize” for Russia’s 2008 war against the country. Oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili’s statement on Sept. 14 was a campaign promise made ahead of the upcoming October parliamentary election, and part of his party’s larger trend of rapprochement with Russia. But according to analysts who spoke to the Kyiv Independent, the suggestion that Georgia, rather than Russia, is at fault for the war may be a step too far an…