Armenia’s Armed Forces have concluded the ninth day of fighting as Artsakh’s capital city of Stepanakert continues to get pulverized by Azerbaijan’s intense shelling.
Nineteen civilians, including women and children, have died and more than 80 people have been wounded according to Artsakh Ombudsman Artak Beglaryan, who has been at the helm of the social media campaign “Don’t be Blind”—an urgent call to the
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Well, as long as Azerbaijan continues to acquire so many of these highly destructive military weapons from Israel, it will continue to use them against the civilians of Stepanakert, Hadrut, and other towns in Artsakh. Therefore, Prime Minister Pashinyan needs to harshly condemn Israel for being an accomplice to the campaign of terror that Azerbaijan and Turkey have unleashed against the civilians of Artsakh.
Armenian PM is doing much more than that. Now the real question is, what do YOU do for your country and the military?
I wasn’t talking about what Pashinyan has done as the Prime Minister of Armenia. Go back and carefully read what I wrote.
In response to your question, I’m doing equally as much for Armenia as everyone else here in Armenia (but, of course, it’s the soldiers who are always doing the most for Armenia). And, if the Turkbaijanis/Turks ever manage to enter into Hayastan, I, along with my fellow Yerevantsis will most definitely join together with the Armenian military forces to defend this country. Yes, indeed!
This is Pashinyan’s war. Let’s be clear. The hostilities started when Turkey saw weakness between Russia and Armenia.
Blood of Armenian soldiers is on the hands of those who brought Pashinyan to power.
Russia is letting Armenia twist in the wind, until those in Yerevan submit to Moscow, rather than playing complementary politics, and trying to appease Washington DC and George Soros.
Please, read your history books. The Treaty of Stefano, a result if the 1878 Berlin Conference between Russian and Turkey was meant to protect Armenians from massacres by the Ottoman Empire. In 1896, Sultan Abdul Hamid ordered the massacre of 100,000 Armenian civilians. I 1915, The Young Turks killed 1.5 million Armenians in one of the first Genocides of the 20th century. Attatirk encouraged the massacre of Anataolian Greeks and Armenians via the arson of Smyrna (Izmir) in 1922. Turkey’s Penal Code 301 law bans admitting that Armenian Genocide is a historic fact. In 2017 the Russian government decides to sell their most advanced anti-aircraft defense system to Turkey, the S-400. Pashinyan, a new leader lionized by the Western press and some of the Diaspora, thought he could build a better trade relationship with Iran, court the West while maintaining Russia as an ally. He was wrong. Neocons want to start war in Iran, and there first step is to sic an Israeli armed Azerbaijan and their Turkish backers on tiny Armenia and Artsakh. The war was coming and is driven by 1) Turkey’s insolvency, Turkey must have this war now, and in return Turkey will receive a major loan from the IMF after the war, 2) the war stops the rise of the China-to-Turkey Silk Belt, 3) prepares for a massive war with Iran, (most neocons think that Armenia is somehow a colony of Iran or Russia [this is a truly stupid idea. . .Armenian has a 4000 year old culture and sees itself as totally unique)
•Thank you Russia for sitting by and doing nothing while an Armenian fighter jet was shot down by Turkey over Armenian airspace
•Thank you Russia for selling arms to Azerbaijan whilst calling yourself an ally of Armenia
•Thank you Russia for calling on BOTH sides to de-escalate the conflict when you know Azerbaijan started it
“Blood of Armenian soldiers is on the hands of those who brought Pashinyan to power.”
How’s that? It certainly wasn’t Pashinyan who created all this terror; it was Aliyev and Erdogan who created all this terror, and launched an all-out military invasion against Artsakh. As a result, Armenian soldiers are being killed, in an attempt to defend Artsakh. Therefore, the correct thing to say is that the blood of Armenian soldiers, as well as the blood of Azerbaijani soldiers, is on the hands of Aliyev and Erdogan.
“Thank you Russia for selling arms to Azerbaijan whilst calling yourself an ally of Armenia.”
Since the war started on September 27th, Russia has supplied zero military arms to Azerbaijan. And even prior to that, Russia had not sold military arms to Azerbaijan in quite a long time. The vast majority of military weapons that the Azerbaijanis have been using against the Armenians were supplied by Israel and Turkey.
On the other hand, shortly before the war started, Russia delivered a huge supply of military arms to Armenia.
I am not surprised that Russians didn’t help. I wasn’t even expecting them to do. What surprises me is that there are still agents who have the nerve to blame our government for the inaction of our “ally” and they use the same Soros broken record for this. Since becoming PM, Pashinyan has been to Moscow at least 20 to 30 times while he hasn’t had even one official visit to lets say London. I don’t know what else he should do to prove his loyalty to Putin. Maybe a Putin tattoo on his forehead will help?
The worst thing about these kind of comments is that they completely change the subject. Our main subject should never be Russian or American or Indian help. If we want to live in that region, we should learn to take care of ourselves. A conventional army, no matter how strong it is, will never be able to withstand 90 million Turks and their extremist brothers. Armenia needs better deterrences, if it wants to exist. This is something we should have thought about right after the first Karabakh war. Sadly, as a nation we love to mourn our loss but we rarely learn from it. If our southern neighbor, Iran, did not have that huge arsenal of guided and unguided missiles, Americans and Israelis would have attacked their nuclear facilities years ago. We need to make it clear for the Sultans and Pashas that any new war will inflict enormous damage to their infrastructures and major cities. Armenia should start with acquiring and later manufacturing its own cruise missiles. Not just a few Iskanders but a formidable arsenal of missiles that can destroy all their major facilities in just a few hours. And yes, I know they can do the same. But that’s the whole idea behind modern deterrence. The damage on both sides will be so painful that no one will think about a new war.
Whether we will learn from our mistakes and be in a totally different situation ten years from now is a different story.