Why Georgia must push back against Emirati influence peddling - Emerging Europe

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Why Georgia must push back against Emirati influence peddling - Emerging Europe

The unregulated infusion of UAE petrodollars could prove as corrosive and cancerous to Tbilisi’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations as Moscow’s ongoing hybrid warfare campaign. On January 13, at Abu Dhabi’s Radisson Blu Hotel, three MPs from Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party roughed up a fellow countryman, Lasha Gabitashvili, after he called them ‘traitors’ and ‘Russian slaves’. Considering the sheikhdom’s zero-tolerance policy towards disturbances t…