Tom Rogan is certainly correct that President Trump should visit Georgia and that he would indeed be greeted warmly. However, he would not find, as Rogan claims, that a “new sense of opportunity” exists for Russia to undermine the remarkable progress Georgia has made in recent years.

This assertion is just plain wrong. It is based on Rogan’s discussion with an opposition politician whose then party was removed from office in 2012 in a seismic election, rebuking their government’s abuse of power and erosion of freedom and democracy. The same opposition was also soundly rejected again in 2016.