In an extended interview with Veridica, the Romanian investigative platform specialising in disinformation and Eastern European politics, I offered a wide-ranging assessment of Georgia’s political trajectory heading into 2026. I analysed the dual dynamic defining Georgian politics — Georgian Dream’s accelerating authoritarianism on one hand, and a resilient, adapting protest movement on the other. I examined the regime’s internal clan wars, its cascade of foreign policy failures with the US, EU, and Russia, and the paradox of its China strategy: Georgia’s transit value depends on Western endpoints that Georgian Dream is simultaneously destroying. I also assessed the opposition’s prospects and the conditions under which Euro-Atlantic integration remains achievable.