How can Armenians overcome their national crisis?

This was what happened to us in 2018 with the “Velvet Revolution.” We thought everything would be okay. We thought that the “Civilized and Liberal/Peace-teaching West” would help us withstand any Azerbaijani aggression.

Who is ‘we’ in this statement? If the ‘we’ is the Armenian people, the purpose of the revolution was to get rid of decades of oligarchy and corruption that had cancerous effects on every institution, education, health, govt, etc., and the people who suffered were fed up. Pashinyan’s policy was friendly relations with all except not so much with US when he refused Bolton’s request to purchase military weapons from them instead of Russia and to stop relations with Iran. Pashinyan did focus most of his attention on building Armenian’s economy (and he was very successful) and involved the EU among other players, and less on foreign policy (one of his mistakes) but to call the revolution ‘irrational emotion-based decisions’ is a misplaced description of the event and one where it seems the author is trying to sweep the past crimes against the nation under the rug. For the first time in decades there were free and fair elections. People could create businesses without fearing thugs or extra taxes by thugs. Now the same thugs want to come back to office. I don’t think the people want them back. Do you? The rest of the article has some wisdom in its analysis and its comparison to Diamond’s book, however, there’s more to it than what can be presented in one article.