Eka Tkeshelashvili: Georgia 2008 Was Putin’s First “Test Run” Before Ukraine
In this conversation with Jacob Heilbrunn, Eka Tkeshelashvili—former Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia and senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund—revisits the summer of 2008: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Putin’s Munich speech, and the Bucharest Summit.
For her, the war was no accident. It was a meticulously prepared plan—Putin’s first “test run” of force against a sovereign state, and a direct precursor to Ukraine.
