Silk Road and Geopolitical Friends of Georgia

2025-08-15

Georgia's steadfast geopolitical friends are the countries of Eastern Europe from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea. But for the last five centuries, the Muscovite Empire dominated Eastern Europe, and we were equally in dire straits.

We betrayed Eastern Europe greatly with the defeat of Krtsanisi in 1795. As a result, the "Rech Pospolita" (Polish Commonwealth), the protectorate of Eastern Europe, collapsed, and Muscovy then completely took possession of Eastern Europe.

The history of Poland, which has suffered many times, has been divided and redrawn borders, is a vivid example of the struggle for Muscovite influence in Eastern Europe.

When Moscow controlled even one link in the chain of countries from the Baltic to the Black Sea, the entire axis of Eastern Europe was blocked.

The Eastern Partnership means the complete liberation of Eastern Europe and the restoration of the Silk Road. It also means the economic, political and geopolitical independence of the countries of Eastern Europe.

The axis of countries from the Baltic to the Black Sea becomes the leading geopolitical power of the continent. Such a thing did not exist even during the time of the Great David, when Georgia was the gateway to the Silk Road. This is possible in today's free market democratic Europe.

Moscow is waging war in Ukraine precisely to restore its influence in Eastern Europe, without which this empire simply cannot exist and will lose all the other captured lands. The Muscovite empire lives by controlling the trade routes.

The liberation of the countries of Eastern Europe is the most important issue for Europe, and every Georgian should support Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the liberation of Belarus is also in our national interest.

There has never been such a united Europe under the auspices of Great Britain, and the existential issue of a united Europe is the liberation of Eastern Europe.

The geopolitical independence and freedom of Eastern and Western Europe depend on the protection and victory of Ukraine. Against this background, we must understand how harmful Trump's policy is, which is trying to return the criminal Putin to the field of global politics. The very fact of Trump's meeting with Putin is already a political victory for Moscow and pits Trump's America against the civilized world. But we must also understand that Trump and Putin cannot solve anything without Europe.

Teimuraz Zakradze

Founder of the Institute of Harmonious Globalization and Governance