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1. “Israel is opportunistically doing what it can to keep its enemies weak” = Israel is opportunistically doing what it can to keep the pot boiling. And I (and the tens of thousands of Syrians who would be dead today if Clinton had won) are rather thankful for Trump’s by intent or by chance “incompetence” – if only more world leaders were similarly “incompetent” when it concerned pushing for foreign wars.

2. Armenians should sit back relax and enjoy the view.

3. “Does anyone have any ideas as to what, if anything, Armenians should be doing in this mess?”
   Yes, Armenians should take this as a valuable lesson how superpowers treat their little “allies” when it comes to their own interests and comfort, in our case Russia. I thought Russia cared for Syria so much that it will not allow the Turks to enter like they have been preaching for years… silly me. Just like Russia is in Syria for the sole purpose of looking out for its own interests, it is in Armenia for pretty much the same reason. But what do I know? Armenian “deep thinkers” in Armenia must know what they’re doing that they are meekly following Russia’s orders regarding Artsakh and calmly watching our young soldiers get picked off one by one every week, so I say good luck to our nation. From where I’m standing in the diaspora, Armenia will never be a viable nation until Azerbaijan is REMOVED and Armenia get her lands back from Turkey. Until then all Armenia can hope to be is a protectorate of Russia at best, when Russians feel like being “nice”. Or if “Armenians complain too much causing Russia a headache” then there is always lots of Artsakh land to give away to Azerbaijan like they did in history, and never bothered correcting for 70 years.

   • It is easy to criticize. Do you have any concrete ideas regarding how can Armenia diversify its military alliances? Looks to me Americans are not much better than Russians when it comes to their allies or else they wouldn’t abandon Kurds to Erdogan’s mercy. I am not even pro-Russian but truth is that Armenia currently doesn’t have much options. We need Russians and Russians need us if they don’t want a huge Turkic empire stretching from Europe to China.

   • Well as far as Russia and Artsakh 70 yrs ago, context is important. The bolsheviks were clever. Their intention was to spread communism worldwide. The whole purpose of socialism and Marx’s teachings are that socialism is not national but an international, global movement for mankind. They knew where there were ethnic turks and oil. Every move they made was to expand communism. The naming of a country called “azerbaijan” was merely to encroach on Iran and its province named azerbaijan by inciting solidarity among ethnic turks in the region. When they handed over Artsakh and Nakhijevan it was to appease turks in exchange for expanding soviet georgia and armenia into turkey, plus a military base in the bosphorus. Many armenians were repatriated to soviet armenia for this purpose, but the plan in its entirety was never fully implemented.

4. Pkk is recognised internationally and by the USA , the USA is arming the pkk which goes by another name the Russians are working with the Turks as they cooperated by moving to safer grounds so turkey can do away with the off shoot of the pkk, the Turks have taken in more refugees Re housed re located them safely than any other

5. Yes, Armenia needs Russia so long as we acknowledge and agree that it is by design and not charity. That’s what my entire issue is with Russian propagandists here. I’m not objecting to your position, my point is that we should not be deceived by Russia bots that show up here promoting Russia as the greatest thing that ever happened and that we need to blindly follow their orders and especially that they are “our friends”. Armenia actually needs to prepare itself for outright betrayal from Russia, which is a question of when not if. True America does not offer a better alternative, but then again that’s also a design by Russia. True, Armenia has no choice but to rely on Russia for its existence, but that’s also a design by Russia. Russia did nothing for Armenia that was to Armenia’s advantage in history when we compare it to Azerbaijan which was a useless nation on an absolute level. And our incompetent Armenian officials are seeing to it that this status quo does not change. The propagandists here claim that it wasn’t Russians that betrayed and cut up Armenia but another group. Fine, the problem is, next ethnic Russians did nothing to correct those mistakes while claiming to be “Armenia’s friend”. Armenia has no friends, not even Russia.

   • This was reply to Minas.

   • Totally agree that there are Russified Armenians who take it to the next level by idolizing Russians. I have seen Armenians who speak Russian just because it is trendy! But when it comes to major foreign policy, Armenia really does not have many options. Russia is the only one who cares about Armenia. Let’s be honest, if Europeans or Americans really wanted they could open the Turkish border within only a few days. Turkish economy is so dependent on West that even talk of retaliatory sanctions can potentially create a crisis in Turkey.
     The only thing that I don’t understand is when you guys say, Russians didn’t do this or that! Why would Russians do anything for us? Isn’t it time for us to grow up and take care of ourselves? We know that in a few months, Armenia’s president will move from presidential palace to prime ministers office. This means at least 5 more years of the same sluggish economy, semi-free yet heavily controlled media, expensive “elections” that always bear the same result and decisions which are being taken overnight sometimes in Moscow! No one in diaspora says anything about this. It is business as usual. It is almost like we are always ready to criticise Russians, Americans, Turks and the rest of the world but never ask the simple question: Why is it that 2 out of 3 lawmakers in Armenia’s parliament are illiterate? And can we expect anything better from Armenia if it keeps going like this?

6. Just a news item I heard which is not ‘official’. The Russians used to be in Afrin, and strangely they pulled out and then promptly the Turks moved in for the attack. There is talk that the Syrian govt and Russia gave a request to the Kurds to put down their arms and surrender the area to the Syrian army. The Kurds refused and so Russia pulled out and gave Turkey the green light. Now the Kurds realizing how they are like a tumbleweed in this dirty game, went back and started negotiating with Syria again…

   This “war” is very complicated and dirty. regardless, the Kurds once again proved to the world why they have never had a nation of their own. They are always outplayed by everyone else in the region, not to mention that their “homeland” is always claimed on someone else’s lands. Add to this their inconsistent and unorganized factions and the picture becomes pretty clear why there is no Kurdistan.

   My conclusion: if the Kurds want their “homeland”, they need to engage in a major uprising and conflict that will need to take place inside Turkey. Both in Syria and Iraq, they will always be targets and not be able to succeed. Of course if they ever succeed, they they will have to deal with Armenia’s demands next.

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