Тhe actual alignment of forces in the region, with Russia’s “active work” on it, does not allow one even to suppose the information on the deployment of U.S. military bases in Georgia to be true, Guiya Khukhashvili, Board Chairman, Social Projects Center NGO, told NEWS.am, commenting on the reports on Pentagon’s plans to deploy two land force and one naval bases in Georgia before 2015. The report was published by the Georgian Resonansi newspaper.
According to the expert, this information is a subject for speculations. “I think that some individuals in the Georgian power structures are making use of this topic for a PR campaign,” Khukhashvili said. Even if the United States is elaborating such a program, it is not to be implemented in the near future.
According to the expert, it is possible provides Russia gives up its ambitions, and its positions in the South Caucasus get weaker, which is unlikely.
In his turn, the Georgian political scientist Guiya Nodiya considers reports like that untrustworthy. “Neither the Georgian nor the American side made any official statements to this effect,” he said. Nodiya pointed out that this information may be a speculative assumption based on the USA’s recent statements on planned modifications of the architecture of its air defense system.
