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Narratives: Between East and West
As a young nation, Armenian society needs to develop infrastructures integral for statecraft. One of the most important attributes in governance is knowing how to control the narrative. This is done through: a) Identifying the message coming in; and b) knowing where that country stands geopolitically to recalibrate the right message for itself, its constituents, and its neighbors.
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The first sane and lucid interpretation of recent prestidigitations in Armenia. I thought I saw it coming and your superb presentation has achieved to convince me., From my vantage point I could see young Armenian Americans manipulated before being sent to Armenia while an old hand from the State depsrtmrnt was keeping an eye on the proceedings.
As a coincidence, I have been reading recently your references citing Machiavelli’s discussion of Titus Livy Bk 3.
Whoever wrote this article is incredibly ignorant. Armenia has always been European with a mix of Caucasian and Anatolian culture. Our language is European not Indo Iranian or Semitic, our culture is European strongly linked to Greece and ancient Aryan traditions, our genetics are isolated and most related to Europeans and other Caucasians not the Middle East. We don’t even cluster with today’s middle eastern populations genetically, linguistically we are different. We have a lot more in common with other European countries than to Middle East. The Armenians who fled Armenia and escaped to the Middle East adopted many middle eastern culture and words but that’s not all Armenians and that does not mean we are like them.
David,
I think you are categorically wrong. Indo-European does not mean European. I think calling the writer of an article “incredibly ignorant” is rude and out of place. Armenian language has no roots with Greeks or any other European country. I wish if you can take a few courses so that you can educate yourself before making stupid comments. For your info, we have much closer linguistically, culturally with Kurds than Greeks. Greek words were injected because of Christianity, that’s all. Again, people may differ with opinions, especially historians. But I see you one of those who hang out at Armenian clubs, eating kebab and playing cards. I do not believe you are not on the same conscious level that most people are to comment on a well written article. Please go back and stay where you are.
Sorry , you have fallen in , trying to be westerner fallacy , you have Israel Orri syndrome , we have lived in Middle East and have been more mingled with Persians, Assyrians than romans and Greeks , i would say 70 to 30 percent.
The author nailed it. Well researched and in-depth analysis of events and the current situation. I was about to give up on this website. Thank you.
Excellent job by the author. Finally an Armenian gets it.
Why don’t we see more articles like this in Armenian media now days. I was beginning to think Armenians in Armenia and Diaspora have gone total zombie over the new Prime Minister. There is nothing benefiting Armenia in the short or long term is going to come out of this new regime which came into power through politics of populism and mob rule. Sad to see that the country is going to regress for the next 5 to 10 years.
Thanks for all the comments above, both positive and negative.
If you agreed with the article, please send to others in order to spread the word. If you disagreed with the article, please send to others so that they can come up with arguments to try to rebut the assertions/arguments that were made.
Best
Ted
AndMur,
We don’t see similar articles because those who run the news media (including our own in Armenia and in the Diaspora) are for the most part financed/funded by the same entities that foment color revolutions around the world. In other words, Western interests, neo-Bolsheviks and Globalists write the political narrative. These therefore set the political mood in any given society. And their agenda is to cause unrest and political strife inside targeted countries. This is something 99% of the sheeple (including our own) are incapable of understanding.
Bravo Harutik. Couldn’t have said it better.
I AGREE WITH THIS WRITER IN MANY POINTS , ESPECIALLY BEING EUOPEAN . WE SHOULD ENPHISIZE AS SOME HAVE , THAT EORPOANS HAVE MIDDLEASTERN BEGGINNINGS MOSTLY FROM US . IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO SHOW ARMENIANS AS ONE NATION WITH ITS UNIQUENESS, ITS RESOLVE TO BE JUST AND INDEPENDANT AND ITS WORLD CONTRIBUTING MEMBER , NOT AS A FRACTURED NATION WITH DIASPORA , ARTSAKH AND AREMNIA .
Ted,
I’m a friend of your dad. He invited me to read your article and comment.
Well,I have just a simple sentence to add the previous nice comments which I concur. You should have been picked up to accompany PM Trudeau to the Francophonia meeting in Erevan.I’m sure the government people would have listen to your comments. I mean it.You make proud your parents as I’m to have known your Dad and now you. I have 2 sons both directeors in pharmaceutical Co. that I’m proud of but unfortunately they don’t have time to be involved (like many many of our youth)with Armenians affairs.
Keep going your input in the benefit of our motherland.
Bravo Ted. A lot of what you wrote probably went right over the heads of many readers, which is why your excellent article has so few comments. Your article was not about Armenia’s location on the world map but a warning about Nikol’s neo-Bolshevik government and how Armenians think about Armenia and themselves. I agree with what you wrote 100%.
Great article. Everyone seems to forget that Urartu was never in Europe, that genetically our closest relatives are Assyrians, and that it’s the Soviets who caused the war with Azerbaijan due to how they divided the land.
Yes we have an Indo-European language, but Persian is an Indo-European language? Does that mean they’re European? No. It means that if you look at a map, the Indo-European languages extends from europe to western asia to india.
I don’t know why we as a community can’t come together and stop the identity politics. It’s almost embarrassing how many Armenians are so passionate at erasing their history as West asians. Eastern Armenia, western Armenia, and Cilicia were never in Europe. Jesus wasn’t from European, our orthodoxy isn’t European. Wake up.