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Who, after all, speaks of the Armenians?
Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians…
Once again, we are witnessing the destruction of our homeland. The government and defense forces of Artsakh will be dissolved, laying the final groundwork for its ill fate. The deeply rooted Armenian spirit in those lands will be scorched. History will be wiped out,
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We Armenians only have ourselves to blame. For over 30 years our Soviet Era leaders with a love for Russia and Putin did nothing to modernize the defense forces and reach out to the West for security. Instead, like fools they only relied on Russians for security. The same Russians who gifted Western Armenia, Nakhichevan and Artsakh to the Turks. Somehow, Armenians have not learned from our past painful history.
But it’s not too late to make up our mistakes. Prime Minister Pashynian is on the right path of starting to open Armenia to both Europe and the United States. The Armenian nation will be much better served by leaving Russia to Russians who enjoy being ruled by despots like Putin and his gangs.
Bravo Ari, I could not have said it better myself. Armenian needs to take a page from the Israeli playbook and make strong alliances with the US and other European nations. Armenia means nothing to the Russians and never will.
Lol, our leaders in Serbia for 23 years told us the same. Turn to the west bla bla and they will help and accept us. Yeah right. Once some geostrategist across the pond deems a people unsuitable to their interest until they change opinion on their own it is completely irrelevant what stance people of certain country take. For USA Armenia only has a use as a launching pad for potential incursions into Iran but even for that Azerbaijan is much more useful for them. Azerbaijan has larger population and there is bunch of them in Iran too so in pure geopolitical calculus USA has vested interest for keeping the Turks on their good side as well as Turkey who is a nato member. It is schizophrenic for Armenians to think they will ever take precedence over full blown major nato members. For 5 years Armenians have been only spitting on Russians and if I were Russian I would think twice on whether to help a country where I am hated not to mention that per ODKB agreement it has to defend Armenia and Erevan never officially said that Artsakh was Armenia. Since year ago Pashinyan himself recognized “territorial integrity” of Azerbaijan. Just like Krajina in 1995 was betrayed in Belgrade and just like Serbs in Kosovo are abandoned today, Artsakh was primarily betrayed in Erevan.
Why do you insist on the equally vain hope that the West will save you? Do you remember what such State Department illuminaries as John Kirby, Marie Jovanovich, and Lynne Tracy did for you? (Nothing!) The only ambassador who was different was John Evans, and what hapenned to him? Then again, a few years ago, Speaker Pelosi promised the Armenian lobby Genocide recognition; but then, betrayal! Maybe if Armenia stopped sending its young men to help out NATO, maybe it would have more to defend itself.
It might also help if Armenia truly supported its own soldiers and had let the army do its job for the past 3 decades.
Bravo, Alek. The latest Artsakh catastrophe represents the total failure of our political, cultural, and religious institutions for the past 30 years. I am afraid that the next step will not be unity and introspection, but is more likely to be fighting and blaming each other. Please prove me wrong.
Thank you Alek.
This is a message we call need to hear and act on.
We need every voice, every thought, every idea, everyone’s inovolvement.