The U.S. military has halted a set of training exercises with Georgia, while the Pentagon reviews its bilateral security partnership with the Eurasian country.
The U.S. Army was set to train with its Georgian counterparts from July 25 to Aug. 6 as part of the regular Noble Partner exercise, but the Pentagon announced on Friday that it had indefinitely postponed the event.
The decision was prompted by what the Pentagon described as “false accusations” against the United States and “other western entities” by the Georgian government. The Pentagon statement alluded to comments by some Georgian government officials that accused Western actors of trying to turn Georgia into a second front in a war with Russia. The Pentagon also took issue with comments by officials within Georgia’s government, accusing the United States or other Western actors of fomenting unrest within Georgian society….