Words have meanings and consequences as PM Nikol Pashinyan found out when he told a journalist last week that the powerful Russian Iskander missiles, supposedly fired by Armenia during the Artsakh War last November, “did not explode or exploded 10-percent.” This surprising statement was in response to an interview by former President Serge Sarkisyan in which he asked why Pashinyan had not ordered the use of the Iskander missiles during the early part of the Artsakh War.
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I dont think Pashinyan understands who you are and what you represent my friend.
Without doubt Pashinyan needs to be removed. He is incompetent and is causing great harm to Armenia. He IS THE LOSER of Artsakh. It IS his fault and responsibility. The idea by some that this is “ALL OUR FAULTS” is nonsense. Its like blaming the passenger for an incompetent drivers accident. The idea that he will somehow fix the course is folly. He is useless to crush the enemy without so he goes after the “enemy” within. He hates being criticized whether just or unjust. He is neither politically, economically or militarily savvy and thin skinned to boot. A dangerous scenario to be at the helm another day making decisions for the entire Armenian Nation. He needs to be removed.
As for the Iskander, there was a recent article stating that Armenia did launch a rocket at Azerbaijan towards the end of the war to make Azerbaijan agree to a cease fire. But according to the article the Israeli made air defense system, really an American paid for and designed system sold by Israel to Azerbaijan, supposedly shot it down. Whether true or not is yet unclear. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Russian made rocket isn’t all that its cracked up to be as it was touted that there is ‘no defense and against an Iskander’.
Either way Pashinyan is sinking Armenia deeper into disarray and yet seems to pretend its not his fault and everyone should just “let him do his job”. He needs to be removed.
Nothing from anyone makes any sense and hasn’t from day one. The incompetent leaders of Armenia are not even good at lying, having been trained to be “expert” liars. That is the reason I am convinced that this whole thing was a long-time plan involving the traitors of Armenia installed by Russia acting as “leaders”, Russia itself and the two Turk nations.
I am also disturbed, though not surprised, at the attitude of our diaspora, having lost so much yet remaining silent sitting next to a pink elephant in the room. I think the shock of this betrayal has not even played out yet.
I said this before and I will repeat forever: if this was a real ‘war’ the sovereignty of Armenia itself would never have been on the chopping block. When convenient, Artsakh if a free independent country, when convenient, Artsakh’s problem is Armenia’s problem. It does not work that way, except we do not have our own leaders leading our nation to get any problems solved. What we have is a bunch of uneducated simpletons trying to play “we are the government”.
There is a very telling article I recommend you all read which was published at Novaya Gazeta in Russian. The title is actually quite telling just by itself: “Long-term loyalty to Russia cost Armenia dearly”.
A couple key takeaways:
-When Armenia was coerced into abandoning Europe’s economic integration and instead join Russia’s Poverty Club called the “EEU”, Armenia requested Artsakh be included in the EEU, and Russia told them “Artsakh is not recognized by the international community… TWO MONTHS AFTER ATTACKING AND ANNEXING CRIMEA”.
-Armenia was trying to recover from the Artsakh war and the devastation caused by the First Thief of Armenia (Levon Ter Petrosian) and thus got loans from Russia which in the early 2000 was $100 million and costing $18 million per year to service. At the same time, Russia wrote off loans totaling **$30 BILLION** to a host of far away nations not intimately connected to its security: Tanzania, Iraq, Laos, Benin, Guinea, Viet Nam, Ethiopia, etc were all FORGIVEN, and meanwhile “ally” Armenia hosts a Russian base on Armenia’s expense, while getting usurious loans which Armenia could have gotten much cheaper from western countries.
Yeah some “ally”.
To read the article, I suggest getting the Russian version and copy-paste part by part in any translate app. The article…
https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2020/12/18/88427-starshiy-brat-s-bolshoy-dorogi?fbclid=IwAR16oqHlcLcZHq4hxeGG63VDTmMbGU4dUCTS5EcF8amtwmG0AAr-dZ0KBag