“If you don’t come now, when would you come?”

He is a fine young man. I was there in Armenia when the war broke as well and i was proud to make his acquaintance

Good to hear about people who help beloved Armenia.
We visited the contry in 2010 with 50 teachers from Denmark.
Hope the best for all -and not a civil war.
We have contact with danish-armenians.The are very sorry and unsafe about the future,
We can only help with a little money and facebookcontact.So GOD BLESS ARMENIA

“If you don’t come now, when would you come?”

The short answer:
Not any time soon.

The long answer:
Although this is “my opinion”, I believe now that it is also the opinion of the many if not the majority of diaspora Armenians. And the sad truth is, no one is going to Armenia for permanent residence while 1. Armenia has the worst leadership to offer. And 2. That leadership is a pretty good representation of the ignorance of the general population.

In past years I listened to the know-it-all “Authentic Armenians” that show up here and elsewhere on the internet, chanting BS like “only Armenians that live there have a right to decide this and that blah blah blah”. Yeah we saw pretty good what the Armenians of Armenia are capable of in “their own country” for three decades: electing crook after crook and unpatriotic fool after unpatriotic fool for their “leadership”, all the while gorging themselves on an anti-ARF-rhetoric feeding frenzy in order to keep diaspora leadership out of the country, and finally escaping to the USA when they got lucky in their “escape from Armenia” lotto, to Russia when they were not so lucky, and for the absolute bottom of the barrel, to Turkey as proud illegal aliens. Of course the funniest and most ironic part of it is, when these people escape to the USA to find greener pastures, they bring their anti-ARF rhetoric along with them “as if they know something so special” with their so-called “education” they received from Bolshevik Russia. This is all instead of setting high standards for themselves and the country and working toward goals for a successful nation where all Armenians can go join them and call home and grow.

So after “independence” Armenia did the OPPOSITE of what it was supposed to do in theory to become a viable nation. Three decades past, and did diaspora have any kind of input and leadership roles in the nation? Zero.

I suppose for Armenians that are already in dire straits and poor around the world wouldn’t have anything to lose if they moved to Armenia. That would in fact be the best thing to do. However, no one is going to Armenia from nations like the USA or from western Europe, for a very simple reason: no one gambles a successful future to put in the hands of incompetent crooks with an unpredictable future as a result of that incompetence. The ARF-dispora largely isn’t going to do it, and the Ramgavar-diaspora even less. And now the ones that came from Armenia aren’t going to either despite what they may claim, because the economic success they found in western countries would be too much of a sacrifice to take a chance on losing.

What this means is, if we as Armenians as a whole want a viable, strong and successful nation, the original “losing formula” of Armenia must first be discarded. Next the “power structures” of the nation must be dismantled and discarded where intelligence, education and competence take precedence over nepotism, ignorance and incompetence. Only then will Armenians be ready to build a viable nation and only then will the question of “when are you going back to Armenia” be valid.