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  1. Armenia is located in an unforgiving neighborhood that requires Armenians to always be vigilant and ready for war. For the first time in one thousand years we have independence. Not only that, for the first time in well over one thousand years we have managed to liberate significant amounts of our historic territories. Yet, we have able bodied men doing all they can to avoid military service and Western funded activists from the Diaspora are encouraging them. So embarrassing. Turks are laughing.

  2. “Corruption” exists everywhere, especially in Azerbaijan, especially in the United States. Western inspired slogans like “there is corruption in Armenia” is simply an excuse many self-hating Armenians adopt and use it as an excuse to abandon their homeland and avoid any form of responsibility towards their state. That said, this military draft law is meant to eliminate corruption in that it no long gives the sons of the upper class in the country an easy way out of avoiding military service. With this law every 18 year old in the country has to serve regardless of class and/or so-called connections. The bottom line is this: If Armenians are not willing to serve in their country’s armed forces, regardless of the level of “corruption” that takes place in the country, than Armenians as a people don’t deserve statehood. This kind of constant whining and infighting is why we Armenians (and Greeks) lost all of Asia Minor to Turkic peoples during the past one thousand years.

  3. It is legislation that punishes those who continue with their education to an advanced level by increasing the period of their conscription compared to those who do not, and makes it worse by conscripting them as soon as they finish that education, the very time they are likely to be the most financially stressed and needing to find paid employment. It additionally implies that the attaining of that education is somehow unpatriotic, and that only the rich do it, and do it for dubious motives. Having a well-educated population is at least as important for a country’s security as having a well functioning army.

  4. I disagree, because Armenian Government feels entitled to military service of its citizens. The Citizens do not owe Armenian Government any involuntary service. No person can be born indebted to provide military service against their wishes. That means that every boy that is born to armenian citizen parents is turned into a slave for the government. Government sponsored military slavery is unethical practice that has been allowed to continue for far too long.

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