My Turn
Can Pashinyan do for Armenia a fraction of what Erdogan has done for Turkey?
I just read an in-depth investigation published by the 'Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’ (OCCRP) titled, "Behind Trump’s Turkish 'Bromance’: Oligarchs, Crooks and a Multi-Million-Dollar Lobbying Deal.” The authors are Aubrey Belford and Adam Klasfeld.
The first paragraph summarizes the findings: "Turkey’s president has enjoyed an unusually powerful sway over the Trump administration. A new investigation reveals the relationship was built by a circle that included Tr
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I don’t remember a time, when relations between an Armenian leader, and Armenian lobbies and the Armenian Apostolic Church, were so ruptured, and have been at such loggerheads and on such bad terms.
Pashinyan’s disastrous “leadership” (if one can call it that), his authoritarian lurch (many self-described “democrats” and “anti-corruption” upstart politicians like him, often end up as dictators and as utterly corrupt, just like his colleagues Erdogan or the “Nobel Peace Prize Laureate” Abiy of Ethiopia, and I wonder why), his appeasement of the Turkic enemies (he pretended to be an Armenian nationalist and said “Արցախը Հայաստան է և վերջ” (“Artsakh is Armenia and that’s it”)!), not only showed his true colors, he revealed what he is and what he was all along: a charlatan!
And thanks to this walking disaster, saboteur and traitor rolled into one ruling Armenia, the situation in Armenia has never been worse and perilous like now, not even when Armenia was experiencing the birth pains of independence, the turbulences of transition and restructuring, and when the odds initially did not look good for Armenia in 1992 and early 1993 during the First Artsakh War.
The harm done to Armenia and to Armenian national interests by Pashinyan is immense, which will take years to repair, once he leaves office, and as long as he is not replaced by a Pashinyan 2.0.
Armenian lobbies this time, face the biggest challenge, not from Turkish/Azerbaijani/Jewish lobbies, but from the saboteur and traitor Pashinyan.
However, Armenian lobbies managed to succeed in advancing Armenian national interests, when there was no independent Armenia and without the support of the Armenian government, and they will overcome this sabotage and treachery from home soil as well.