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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T06:45:11.000Z",
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  "textContent": "How Tbilisi threw away its greatest strategic asset. For three decades, Georgia held a geographic trump card (no pun intended) that no amount of money could buy. It was the only country connecting Europe to Central Asia that did not involve crossing Russian or Iranian territory. Every pipeline, every railway, every fibre-optic cable linking the […]\n\nGeorgia’s self-inflicted wound was originally published on Emerging Europe.",
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