Artsakh parliament nominates new president

Effendi,

You better start talking to Greg with more respect. Didn’t like the tone. Ok, effendi?

Living in the West actually IS the story. Due to family, finance and work considerations, we often don’t have the luxury of choosing where we live. If I had the choice, I’d be living in some homestead in a remote Armenian village or a ranch somewhere in Russia’s Urals. Some of us live in the belly of the beast due to various circumstances – not the least of which is also the fact that Western powers have ruined parts of the world where we used to live. For example: the reason why Central Americans, Ukrainians, Libyans, Syrians, Afghans, etc., are migrating to western Europe or North America is because of Western aggression. Having militarily destroyed or economically ruined much of the world in recent decades, the only place human being can still make a living today is, unfortunately, in Western countries. Now you understand?

In any case, those of us who live in the West – and have not been dumbed-down or zombified by Western pop-culture and liberalism – know what the West really is. Unlike our compatriots in Armenia – who’s idea of the Western world comes from Western movies, as well as their relatives in LA that tell them can get free money if they can only somehow find their way to the US – Armenians born or raised in the West know the evil empire from the inside. We know the dangers that Western powers pose to not only to Armenia but also to humanity. Our warnings about the toxicity of the West is therefore more valid than your fairytales about the West.

For the past 100-plus years Turks and their Western allies have been trying to convince us Armenians that Armenia’s does not need Russia. The reason is obvious, even to a child. Without Russian support, a tiny, impoverished and a remote nation squeezed by two much larger and much wealthier Turkic nations has no chance of survival. The ONLY reason why we have had an Armenia during the past 200-plus years is Russia. So, here is the formula that Turks and Westerners know well: No Russia in Armenia = no Armenia in the south Caucasus.

The mess we are in today is because we Armenians took our eyes of the ball. We thought we can enjoy Russian protection as we go frolicking in Paris, London and New York. It does not work that way, especially for small and poor nations. Political illiteracy has a high cost. We paid it in 2020. However, not all is lost. Sooner or later Nikol Pashinyan will be gone and what remains of Armenia and Artsakh will return back to Russia. So, you and your friend Charlie will be only partially successful.

The problem is that the Russian bear is not as stronk as it appeared earlier. The invasion of Ukraine seems to have driven the proverbial final nail in the coffin of the so called Russian empire. They failed to capture relatively flat ground in nearly 2 years since the so called special operation.

Russia is haemorrhaging of its power as well as its demographics big time, the demographic candle 🕯️ is lit at both ends. It is losing nearly 700K of its population each year due to lower birth rates than the death rates all the while the Turkic population in Russia is registering an increase year on year. Russia is sagging at the seams and it’s not unrealistic to expect a dismemberment of mother Russia and the emergence of 12 new Turkic countries in the world