Just Like Obama, Trump’s Russia Policy Speaks Louder Than His Words - the US publisher The Federalist publishes Mikheil Saakashvili"s article under this headline .

The third president of Georgia writes that the United States should return to President Reagan"s policy, which implies restraint on all Russia"s frontiers. Mikheil Saakashvili considers that one of the ways to suspend Putin"s Russia is to strengthen NATO in Eastern European countries and offer Georgia and Ukraine a Membership Action Plan.

"In 2008, when I was the president of Georgia, Russia shocked the world by invading my country. To this day, one-fifth of Georgia’s territory remains under illegal Russian occupation. Putin said in a recent interview that Russia would not allow Georgia and Ukraine to join the alliance." The United States must explicitly refuse Russia"s hegemony, "wrote Mikheil Saakashvili.