Sunday, December 14, 2025

Interview: Francis Fukuyama on the war in Ukraine and NATO expansion

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Francis Fukuyama is professor of political science at Stanford University.

Many Georgians are discussing how far Mr Putin will go in his attempt to subdue his neighbor Ukraine. Maybe he will take this important seaport of Mariupol and go to Odessa or even Kiev? What’s your opinion about the outcome of this conflict?

I don’t really have a prediction about this

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NATO plans to hold more military exercises in Georgia

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO is ramping up its defense of Eastern Europe with a new expeditionary force that will be able to “travel light but strike hard if needed”.

Also planned are five new bases in the Baltic states, Poland and Romania, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine

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Georgia preparing to send humanitarian assistance to Ukraine

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Health Minister Davit Sergeenko. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Children and injured people will be brought from Ukraine to Georgia for treatment, and Georgia will offer humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili said on Saturday.

“We are also thinking of bringing children, injured,

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