Let me start with two major qualifiers. I usually attempt to limit the emotion in my commentary, but as an Armenian, my frustration is peaking. We must also take a moment to extend our prayers for all the victims of this senseless carnage we are witnessing in Ukraine like a reality TV show. I try to advocate a pragmatic and rational approach to our problems in the diaspora and the homeland, but the core of my human frailties has been wounded. We need to rise above our self-imposed victim culture
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Unfortunately, the further a conflict is from Europe, the more disinterested the Europeans become. The Kosovo war was in the late 90s, after the 1st Artsakh war, yet they received recognition and Artsakh didnt.
The second problem is that the leaders of Armenia have been old fashioned and lacking any real understanding of “public relations”. That’s why Azerbaijan has been able to get away with hiring jihadist mercenaries, destroying churches, beheading elderly civilians and soldiers, etc.
arabs were fly to bosnia kill christian serbians by help of west like they got killed armenians in lebanon and syria during civil war and pogroms 1950s-1990s nd present so who helped armenians nobody just like in 2020 we are alone.
If you have no assets to offer or oil, you can be used as a political commodity by someone with certain interests in the political campaign for the minds of the rest of humanity.
All wars are tragic, but some are justified. Despite what CNN and BBC says, history will be on the side of Russia and President Putin.
Ask yourselves: What would Uncle Sam do if Texas tried break free from the United States and made a military alliance with Russia? What would Uncle Sam do if China was to deploy troops and missiles in Mexico? What would Uncle Sam do if Russians were to deploy troops or missiles in Venezuela? What did Uncle Sam do in Cuba, Vietnam, Granada, Panama, Iraq, Serbia, Libya and Syria?
This war was a direct result of expanding NATO to Russia’s borders, despite 30 years of complaints and warnings by Moscow. This war was a direct result of placing missile systems near Russia’s borders, despite 30 years of complaints and warnings by Moscow. This war was a direct result of fomenting anti-Russian Color Revolutions throughout former soviet space, including in Ukraine. Ukraine has been a hotbed of anti-Russian activity. Like what we saw in Artsakh, the separatist Russian populated region of Donbass was bombed for 8 years before Russians stepped in. This war was also a consequence of Western powers and their allies invading Iraq on false pretexts. This war was a consequence of Western powers and their allies mercilessly bombing Serbia, again based on false pretexts, and giving a major piece of it (i.e. Kosovo) to Albanian Muslims. This war was also a consequence of Western powers destroying Syria and Libya via Western-back Islamic terror groups.
Western powers and their allies are responsible for a number of illegal invasions and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people since 1991. Western powers and their allies are also responsible for a number of bloody “regime changes” and “color revolutions” around the world, including Armenia in 2018, which led to the loss of Artsakh.
It’s about time someone stood up and said – no more! Once again, that someone is the great Russian nation.
I did not see the “civilized world” protesting when Artsakh was attacked. I did not see them protesting when Serbia was attacked. I did not see them protesting when Iraq was attacked. I did not see them protesting when Syria was attacked. I did not see them protesting when Libya was attacked. I did not see them protesting when Yemen was attacked. The “civilized world” with all its toxic organizations and institutions, along with their Ukrainian friends can go to hell.
This war will end with Ukraine total capitulation in one to two weeks. Despite what Western MSN is trying to tell us, President Putin’s war effort in Ukraine has been brilliant. Despite the fact that Ukraine is one of the largest countries in the world and has a well armed and well trained military, around 25% of Ukraine is now in Russian hands. Despite what Western MSN is trying to tell us, all measures are being taken by the Russian military to lessen civilian casualties. Russians have even kept the lights on throughout the country. This restraint by the Russians is causing delays as well as Russian casualties. For their part, Western officials and journalists have been encouraging and inciting Ukrainian civilians to fight the Russian army.
In other words, Westerners are doing their best to get Ukrainians massacred for a good “photo op”. And Zelensky is their Grim Reaper in this regard. In any case, Ukraine will no longer exist after this. They played with fire for too long. No tears for Ukraine from me. Let’s Russia do what it needs to do to that pro-Tatar and pro-Azeri hotbed of Western, Turkish and Israeli activity.
Well said. Thank you concerned Armenia.
Wow. Written by Putin?
Thanks Stepan, I red this article twice, It was a just, methodical, factual and passionate article.
Hypocrisy of Western powers is not a new phenomenon, didn’t they wage a coupe detat against Dr Mosaddegh, democratically elected PM of Iran, didn’t they Killed numerous people including his Foreign Minister, Dr Fatemi, to re-establish an autocrat and gain control of Oil in the region. They were not, are not, and will not be interested in democracy. Unconscious or I will go further, Conscious bias that you alluded to “Interview example”, is deeply rooted in racist ideologies and mentalities of most western societies, if you don’t look like them, you are less human than they are. That’s about human right. About Self-determination, it has lost its meaning all together, even for their own citizens, let alone people of Artsakh. But I need to admit as an Iranian, we should have done more, we were extremely slow to wake up to the reality, it took us almost a year to draw a line on a sand and organize a drill to show the aggressor that his autocrat regime overstepped the mark by hundreds of kilometres. Especially after public opinion polls in Armenia about the level of trust about neighbouring countries and countries abroad, we feel guilty about not rushing to the support of Armenia, and at the very least stay at the middle and put the stop to the aggression, it was our place to do so, considering the hesitance of Russia at the time due to …. Too late to say sorry, especially after loss of lives of 4500 Armenian (Our brothers ad Sisters, our mates) and loss of land, and continuous aggression of Aliyev regime emboldened by lack of action from Russia and Iran. And lastly, Aliyev and Putin need to learn from history, history repeats itself, conquerors will be conquered, sooner or later. Conquer the heart of a nation and build trust which will last forever.
You and your Iran man.
” Brothers, sisters…” One is Orthodox and one is Shia, minimal cultural similarities, differrent origins, differrent regimes…
List me how many agreements Iran has with Turks and how many they have with Armenia. Millions of Iranians moved to Turkey and brought property to get citizenship.
ummmm…….thank you for your lecture. But you miss one simple thought….what did the people of Syria want? What did the people of Libya want? What did the people of Iraq want? Why did the Soviet Union fall apart? What did the people of the Soviet Union want? Etc. You argue that it really does not matter what the people of Egypt wanted…it was better to have a military dictatorship. I clearly remember the
Cuban Missile Crisis…and how the U.S. responded. But that was the USSR placing missiles in Cuba without the Cuban people having any say (try talking about this with the Cuban community in Miami Florida) Tell me…What did the Ukrainian people want? Did they want to be “just like Russia” or “just like Poland”. By the way, who were the Rus (the villagers around current Moscow in 950 AD….vs what was the Ukrainian Kingdom like in 950 AD..honestly..which has the longer history. The west has made insane mistakes. But Georgia, Chechnya, Belarus, yes Armenia (whose side were the Russians on?), etc…Saint Putin isn’t an option here. I detest all war. Competent compromise avoids it. But it is the Ukrainian people who are on one side and the Russians on the other. It is they and only they that get to compromise NOT the U.S. or NATO. Open your eyes, see what the Ukrainian people are doing NOW and you will better understand that they don’t want to be like the Russian Republic. You and I are not voting. They are with their lives. Ignore the Ukrainian people and you can make Putin into a saint any time you choose. Otherwise you are on the wrong side of history
Western governments are responsible for murdering over one million people around the world since the 1990s. Where was the global outrage and sanctions then? Where was the global outrage ad sanctions when Karabakh was attacked? What makes Ukrainians better than Armenians, Serbians, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis or Libyans? The answer is Ukraine was getting ready to host Western troops and develop nuclear weapons. Ukraine is to Russia what Karabakh is to Armenians. Russia complained abut this for many years. So Russia reserve the right to naturalize the threat from Ukraine. Period.
Every Armenian should take an hour and listen to this lecture:
https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4
Then you will (or should) understand why the West is the problem and why Armenians are comatose and ignorant to clamor for the poor souls of Ukraine.
Not that I like Russia, who has always treated Armenians as second class citizens, but one has to understand the reality of geopolitics before one can have a rational, viable strategy to improve one’s lot in life.
Vahagan,
For a nation that supposedly “treats Armenians like second class citizens”, there are countless prominent Armenians in all layers of Russian society: from Putin’s administration to Russian entertainment sector. Russians have traditionally looked down on (i.e. treated as second class) the backward, aggressive and lawless peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia regardless of ethnicity. There is a lot of trash in Armenian society. It’s this trash or “second class people” that unfortunately rose to prominence in Armenia after the dissolution of the USSR. So, I think I am on the same page with Russians in this regard as well.
that Gurgen is exactly the problem. Russia wants to neutralize Ukraine PERIOD.
What sir do you think the Ukranian people want? Are they sacrificing their lives
for NATO and the West? Or, more likely, they just don’t want to be part of Russia and like the Russian government. Clearly any war is insane. I do not and did not support
foreign intervention anywere. We discuss these issues as if the Ukranian people are not showing the world what they want. Even the Russians are not arguing that there are foreign soldiers in the Ukraine. What is there is war equipment that the Ukranians are using. So is that western murdering adventurism? Look at who is fighting.
Neutrizing a country of 40 plus million people. Is that Russia’s right?
“This war was also a consequence of Western powers and their allies invading Iraq on false pretexts”
You are claiming the war in Ukraine is the consequence of the invasion of Iraq? That seems quite a stretch. Rather than blaming everything on the Western powers, I think there’s plenty of blame to go around: both Russia and the west. Because, even if Ukraine hasn’t behaved the way Russia wants, it’s hard to see how a military invasion of a sovereign nation is ever the answer…
That’s the point. You seem to miss the bizarre and deranged media coverage that blames Putin for this war while ignoring the Western role in this.
What is Putin talking about in his speech:
History of Russia and the Soviets from 1917 on – the West isolates Russia.
WWII – Hitler promises not to attack Russia (the Soviets).
June 22, 1941 Hitler attacks Russia (The Soviets).
August 13, 1942 Stalin asks the Allies for opening of Second Front in Europe.
June 6, 1944 – the Allies open a second front, the invasion of Normandy
May 2, 1945 Russians enter Berlin
September 2, 1945 – end of war in Europe.
Losses of the Soviets: total losses 30 million+, it is said a lot more, but number
made smaller not to anger the population. (13.7 million civilians, 8.7 million military,
1.4 million wounded or dead… etc…etc…)
Countries that have B-61 – 150 nuclear gravity bombs (nato – Belgium, Germany, Netherlands,
Italy and Turkey). UK, France, US have long range nuclear capabilities.
From Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty dated March 5.
Ukraine’s government has started a website to recruit foreign volunteers to an “international legion” to fight invading Russian troops, following repeated calls by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for outsiders to join in his country’s defense.
Compare the above report to what the Armenian government did during the 44 day war. It turned away volunteers saying that they were not needed. It is hard to expect anyone to do much in support of such a feckless government.
during artsakh war georgia closed airspace planes for armenia and worked with turks against armenians arrested diaspora armenians whose tries to go armenia for fight jailed them temporary blockade armenians villages in occupied armenian villages by brutal barbarian georgian nation and goverment,Turkey already were closed to airspace also azeris just Iran left western goverment warns citizens to go ıran they might be spy so we were alone also who remembers serbian christians when their country cities bombed for albanians and bosniaks and nat0 carried arabs pakistanis turks jehadist to kill those christian serbians and today all most all christian western countries recognized kosovo and bosnia which is forcefully taken by serbs same goes to lebanon maronite christians who defended them ? who will save lives of armenians suffer in middle east in arab countries ?
I wish Mr Peligian would desist from writing articles about the hypocrisy of the world powers towards weaker and smaller nations like Armenia and Ukraine. Stop begging for the world’s help and pity; it will only come on their own terms which usually means humiliation, loss of sovereignty and territory. After Khrimian Hayrik, Charents and Monte Melkonian, don’t Armenians know what they have to do ? Isn’t 1915 part of the Armenian genome sequence? Our writers, thinkers and elites could spend their time more usefully advocating for the revival of the Armenian nation in Armenia and Diaspora. The current zeitgeist in the Armenian world (especially in the USA and Russia) is too weak, apathetic and rapidly diluting with intermarriage. The Armenian nation must become much more vibrant economically, intellectually, culturally, religiously and politically, in order to have agency about their national future. Armenians need to organize their communities with local representative boards, which come together and make up a national congress for each country. The national congresses will then come together and comprise the World Armenian Congress. The Congress will have several key roles : a) institute a national tax to fund schools, community centers, diaspora universities to educate and train future leaders, and collect and transfer funds (say $200 MM /year) to Armenia for infrastructure projects; b) work with the Armenian national government to coordinate goals and representation in the parliament; c) resolve conflicts between different political parties and diaspora communities; d)facilitate the connection between Armenia and diaspora e) become a political force speaking to governments and world bodies as representative of the eight million diasporan Armenians. Philanthropy can continue by individuals and traditional organizations ( AGBU, ARS, COAF etc) but it is clear that humanitarian philanthropy does not equate to national development in Armenia. I think that directing and focusing Armenian energies on the future is much more useful for gaining control of our destiny, than bemoaning the indifference and cynicism of the world.