YEREVAN — Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev continues to inflame tensions over Armenian sovereignty, asserting that the “return of Azerbaijanis to present-day Armenian territory” should not alarm the Armenian people or state. Speaking at the 80th anniversary of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Aliyev announced that under his directive, extensive geological work has been underway in Karabakh and Eastern Zangezur for several months, suggesting that “in the coming months, we wi
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You can’t appease a wolf.
It is up to the Armenian people to decide in June 2026 :
Choose between :
– the appeasers who’ll bow down to the Pashas
Or
– the patriots who’ll look the Pashas in the eye and will not flinch.
Hayastan or Ermenistan.
The historical revisionism aimed at disparaging Armenians has long been the state policy of this 107-year old Azerbaijan republic invented on occupied Armenian territories. The State policy of historical manipulation and the systematic promotion of anti-Armenian sentiment were fostered under the rule of Heydar Aliyev’s leadership and escalated under his son the current dictator and the chicken-hawk of artificial Azerbaijan republic. To legitimize the existence of illegitimate Azerbaijan republic requires delegitimization of the existence of Armenia and the Armenians in the region. An Armenia with ancient kings and kingdoms dating back to ancient Persian kings and their kingdoms. As a result, in this context and under false Azerbaijani narratives, Armenia is replaced with Albania (Caucasian) and Armenian with Turkish and so on. These history falsifications are part of a broader, state-sanctioned effort to delegitimize Armenian claims to the region’s history and territory, galvanize public opinion against Armenians, and provide a moral cover for military actions.
To claim that Armenians were relocated to Artsakh “Karabakh“ from Iran and Eastern Anatolia under Russian imperial policy, allegedly to alter the ethnic composition of the region is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. If that were the case, where did that 1,300-year old Armenian cemetery in Julfa-Nakhichevan come from that he ordered his defeated, morally-bankrupt and sadistic army desecrate and destroy in 2005 and build a military camp in its place? How would this Azerbaijani fascist thief explain the uprooting of over a quarter million indigenous Armenians from the region at the turn of 17th century and resettling them in Iran to alter the ethnic composition of the Armenian cities, towns and villages so as to lay claim to Armenian territories? This methodology of ethnically-cleansing Armenian territories from their Armenian inhabitants and replacing them with their Turkic kin also happened during the genocidal Ottoman period. The Ottoman Empire throughout its existence engaged in a dozen or so wars with Russia, needless to say was defeated in them all, and as a consequence the native Armenian populations were moved around, relocated, uprooted and ethnically cleansed and Turkic population from the North Caucasus and the Balkans, under their occupation at the time, brought in to replace the Armenians.
The problem is that we don’t have a real leader in office who can and must respond to historic fabrications of this Azerbaijani scoundrel Aliyev and that encourages him even more. In turn, Armenia’s incompetent and dysfunctional leader Pashinyan instead of hitting back at the enemy hard exposing their falsehoods, all he does is to excuse and explain away enemy’s belligerent nonsense acting as the enemy’s mouthpiece assuring his cheated ex followers that there is no need for any concern and continues feeding them his disastrous “era of peace” nonsense! Truly pathetic!
Boghos J, Bogus claims that I stated that the Turks/Azeris are brotherly peoples of the Armenians , does more to demonstrate the Kremlin lies and Soviet ignorance of which you are infused with. Those bizarre and false claims where made by a Sevan Peter B who would also claim about his beautiful wife and Mercedes car in Toronto. It was Russia who despite being Armenia protector sought Armenia defeat in 2020 so as to control Armenia better by weakening it and to woo Azerbaijan closer to Russia and further from its post independence closeness to Turkey and Israel. It nevertheless is clear in the years since that whilst weakening Armenia has less control over it than before and Azerbaijan only liked Russia as much as it needed to in a “thanks but no thanks we don’t need you anymore” action echoing Turkey with the Soviet Union a century before when it diminshed Armenia to curry favour with Turkic peoples only get little reward the difference this time is many Armenians have shifted away from Russia realising that whilst the Turks are enemies Russia hasn’t actually been the friend Armenians out of vulnerability from Turkic peoples had been keen out of wishful thinking to assume they were.
As @ Ararat states Azerbaijan is continuing its revisionist ahistorical fraudenlet reality in the long term the joke is on them in the meantime it’s a cause of concern for Armenia
The audacity of the ethnic cleanser, war criminal and mass murderer Ilham Aliyev knows no bounds. He violently ethnically cleansed all indigenous Armenians from their homeland Artsakh in 2023 (and his father Heydar, violently ethnically cleansed all Armenians from Azerbaijan in 1990), and now he cockily demands that hundreds of thousands of Azeris are allowed to settle in Armenia, so he can use them as a fifth column to invade Armenia, and tear off large chunks of Armenia’s territory, in addition to the 200 square kilometers of Armenian territory occupied by Azerbaijan in 2021. (For example, Hitler used the three million Sudeten Germans as a fifth column, to grab territory from Czechia, and later to invade all of it). What does Pashinyan do against Aliyev’s threats, and what did he do when Azerbaijan occupied 200 square kilometers of Armenian territory? Absolutely nothing! If this coward, appeaser, traitor and walking disaster called Pashinyan remains in power past June 2026, expect even worse things to happen to Armenia. The plight of Armenia is existential, and elections in Armenia have become existential. That is why, he and his allies must be deposed either by a popular uprising or by a coup d’état, because in all likelihood, he won’t be elected fairly and won’t leave power willingly.
The real map of Armenia is the one of the first Republic of 1918. The boundary of soviet Armenia were set from the
Kremlin and are totally unacceptable. The boundary of Armenia is present day Armenia plus Artsakh plus
Nakhijevan , Igdir Kars and Ardahan. And if Aliev wants to send 300 000 Azeri in Armenia first let the Armenians of
Artsakh go back in artsakh let the over 2000 000 Armenians go back to Baku. But unfortunately our present day government
of Armenia is a total disaster including that ignorant illiterate idiot Pashinian. Get rid of him before he gets rid of Armenia.
That Pashinian is so stupid that he does nt even think that Aliev is preparing for war against Armenia.
Pashinyan has used the rhetoric of the “Fourth Armenian Republic of Armenia” and “Real Armenia” ideology with a time zero concept to appease the Azeri dictator. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot used the concept that time zero began with the Khmer Rouge takeover in Cambodia in 1975 which is a similar concept of historic erasure. How did that turn out?