Senior Fellow for the Middle East Institute (MEI) Frontier Europe Initiative, Iulia Joja, published an article The Biden Administration’s Eastern Europe Policy: New Hope for Georgia?

In the very beginning, the author mentioned Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s statement that reads that “Georgia should join NATO as soon as it meets the criteria.”

Iulia Joja thinks “Blinken’s remarks are timely. Georgia faces increasing Russian political pressure and military presence, exacerbated by the recent second Nagorno Karabakh war.”

“America’s Eastern European partners, from Georgia to the Baltics states, desperately need Washington to develop a more assertive Russia policy. Without U.S. support, these states stand no chance against Russian aggression. This is why Secretary Blinken’s statement is so important. But the ability of the Biden Administration to make a real difference to Eastern Europe’s security will depend on a series of concrete actions,” Joja noted.

The author of the article believes “the most effective way to limit future Russian aggression in Eastern Europe is to raise the potential cost of aggression through containment.

“The West must establish a series of political and military measures to make Russian aggression costlier, and therefore more difficult,” she said.

“The Biden Administration’s political commitment to Georgia’s Western future will be considered a relief for a country surrounded by the Russian military in a geopolitically strategic region. It will be an objective response to Georgia’s efforts and will also serve as an important step toward greater transatlantic security,” Joja concluded.