Most Armenian residents support diplomatic relations with Turkey, according to new poll

this is why armenians in middle east and russia diaspora must move armenia to run country

@joe, i dont think you know what a blockade is, and what its effects are on the population. At the beginning due to the blockade there wasnt even enough to bring flour into the country, people had issue with basic nutrition, so they left the country. We in the diaspora had to send flour to the country, members of parliament had to travel to Georgia to bribe mobsters there, to allow basic food stuffs to enter the country.

Once the basic food products issue stabilised, then we had issues importing items for production, manufacturing, basic items for living. We could have purchased new or used machinery from Turkey and had production in Armenia, instead we purchased finished products from Turkey, and people used the black market to bring these goods into Armenia. Right now Armenia has a relatively high average salary, however because things are so expensive to import, our purchasing power is low, and so people think why should i live to a lower standard than others in Europe, i will leave also. I mean you certainly believe you shouldnt lower the standard of living by moving to Armenia, so why should they have? Of course the robbing and looting of the nation up until 2018 was another major factor, so we can agree on that one.

As for the Diaspora. It is this government that installed an actual Diasporan to head Diasporan affairs instead of a disgraceful thief by the name of Hranush who has helped introduced the iGorts program which allows the brainpower we have outside Armenia to make their mark in the heart of Armenian government. It is this government which allows young couples to buy houses and the government pays for the interest on all new builds (it pays this from tax revenues which businesses pay, instead of bribes previously). This means people will stay. This is also reflected in immigration net immigration into Armenia previous to the war. Diasporans were turned off by Armenia before, because they knew they would be robbed by customs officials or tax officials or just plain thieves in previous governments, and thats why they didnt invest (Royal Armenia anyone, Cafesjian anyone, Lincy anyone). Now we have the opposite, we have an end to such corruption and people can work as hard as they like.

So yes, the diaspora is being included, by this government, for the first time. And isnt being looted.

We dont have to dance for joy and be naive about Turks reopening borders, however we have to end this slow suffocation we suffer. We could avoid opening the borders, if 6m diasporans repatriated, or even 3m, or even 1m, or even 0.5m. But the diaspora isnt prepared to do that, i say this as someone who was born in western europe and moved to Armenia 15 years ago, with family still in europe. The sacrifices we want to make do not correlate with the demands we want to impose on Armenia.

Im not even going to debate about the Army, because we didnt have an army, we had a pool of resources which were robbed on a daily basis by everyone involved in the Army. The quicker we realise these nasty realities the quicker we can rise and indeed, become a regional power. We certainly wont become a regional power by drinking hollow toasts to the Army, while they rob fuel, rob tires, sell old weapons onto the army, sell old food to the army, where generals used to rob food from the army and give it to their pigs on their farm for free. this was the reality, time to assess accurately, punish those criminals, and rebuild. Fast.

Armenia was a power in the region for the last three decades but then our successive corrupt leaders, elected by and subservient to foreign leadership, squandered it all. We were powerful and dedicated to our national interests and the world around us took notice and treated us accordingly. We often heard Armenia is landlocked and poor but despite our dire condition we managed to become an independent state and with very little resources, if any, with devastating natural disasters and with no army we managed to defeat a racist criminal enemy with three times the population, five to six times the manpower and with over twenty-five times the firepower in the battlefield. This landlocked and poor country managed to liberate enemy-occupied Armenian territories more than the state of Lebanon in size.

How was all that possible? Simply because we were all, Armenia-Artsakh-Diaspora, united as one and had very clear plan and understanding for what it was that we were fighting for. No one could stop us once we got going. We gained respect for what we were fighting for in spite of the fact that some did not see eye-to-eye with us and that because of their own self-interests in the region having absolutely nothing to do with the fact that we were fighting for what was rightfully ours and that over the years they were chipped away from our homeland piece-by-piece by manipulative and self-serving superpowers in the region. Giving up even an inch of what we had gained through massive sacrifices was not only unheard of but was considered unpatriotic and treasonous act.

Here we are today resigned to our fate and making up all kinds of excuses to appease ourselves without facing the facts that gave rise to the situation we are in. Make no mistake about it, this was a terroristic war preplanned and unleashed on the Armenians by half dozen terrorist states and other criminal entities with full knowledge of our so-called allies. Strong and powerful Armenia was becoming and had become a liability for the world around us. They had to shatter our soul and uncompromising spirit and destroy our accomplishments so they could make us dependent on them and have full control over us and our national aspirations. This was all planned in advance and our self-serving and short-sighted corrupt leaders fell for it. Today the hypocritical Russian president has amassed a massive attack force and ready to unleash on Ukraine claiming NATO’s encroachment on Russian backyard threatening their security WHILE knowingly turning a blind eye on terrorist Turkey’s unprecedented military presence in its ally Armenia’s backyard, not to mention their direct military involvement in 2020 war on the enemy side. Isn’t terrorist Turkey a NATO member state anymore? Why this double-standard? Because they had to do to Armenia through Turkish military what they could not directly do themselves.

The three superpowers, Russia-US-France, bent on protecting their interests and multi-billion dollar investments in the region, i.e. oil & gas pipelines, made us believe that this conflict should and can only be resolved through peaceful means and that war and violence was not the answer while they armed our enemy and prepared it for exactly what they were preaching against. Believing these foreign scoundrels our leaders engaged in massive internal corruptions, nepotism and theft leaving our fate into their hands with their empty words instead of upgrading and strengthening the army and always be ready to give the enemy yet another big dose and a bitter taste of their devastating defeat a quarter century ago.

Today, If you think making “peace” with genocidal terrorist Turkey and its criminal collaborator pseudo-Turkish artificial Azerbaijan is a good thing and that the current dysfunctional and incompetent Armenian government is on the right track, well think again. Peace with terrorist Turkey ultimately means accepting their current boundaries with Armenia which in reality means no territorial claims from terrorist Turkey which in turn means you can kiss the liberation of occupied Western Armenia goodbye, followed by giving up on worldwide Armenian Genocide acknowledgement and reparations in hundreds of billions of dollars and opening Armenia-Turkey borders, which they closed themselves in 1993 with no Armenian provocations whatsoever towards terrorist Turkey, giving fascist Turkey access to Central Asia through sovereign Armenian territory, and economic takeover of Armenia by unrepentant Turkish criminals giving rise to more poverty and migration. Peace with artificial Azerbaijan means giving up Artsakh and putting in danger the lives of 150K Armenian residents there and the ultimate loss and depopulation of this ancient Armenian territory from its indigenous Armenian population as it happened with enemy-occupied ancient Armenian territory of Nakhijevan which today is completely devoid of its Armenian population, Armenian cultural landmarks and sacred sites desecrated and destroyed and used as a military base to train, by terrorist Turkish army, more Azerbaijani terrorists to kill more Armenians.

That’s what is awaiting you if you believe in “peace” with our terrorist Turkish and pseudo-Turkish Azerbaijani enemies. These two criminal states jointly attacked, destroyed, occupied our liberated territories once again, desecrated our sacred sites and are in the process of erasing Armenian existence in territories under their control and here you are preaching peace with the devils in disguise. Wake up already!