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Drones for Armenia
A little over a month ago, I encountered an article in Foreign Policy titled ‘All It Takes is One’: Iran Gives Russia Help From the Air, discussing Russia’s use of Iranian drones in its war […]
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So Sad, Too Far Gone
A few months back, Zareh Sinanyan, the Republic of Armenia’s (RoA) High Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs paid an official visit to the US with various public and semi-public meetings held. I managed to get to […]
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Pomposity to Mask Ineptitude
The “Global Armenian Summit 2022” is underway in Yerevan. In the coming days, we’ll hear endless drivel about what a great success it was and what a wonderful time its participants had in the homeland. […]
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Multi-Continuations
Just a little shy of 33 years ago, I wrote my first piece since moving to the west coast. The title was, if memory serves, “A Successful Genocide,” inspired by an obituary in the LA […]
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Disinformation, Near and Far
Earlier today (Sunday, November 8), a friend called asking me if I’d heard the news that Shushi had fallen to the Turkic invaders. I was stunned and saddened, since I’d been in the mountains for […]
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The War, The Drones and The Money
We’ve been dealing with Turkish invasions, marauding, murder, war-making, cruelty, destructiveness and overall inhumanity for more than a millennium. Azerbaijan’s behavior, guided and supported by Turkey, while heartbreaking and infuriating, is nothing new for us. […]
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The Most Consequential Election of a US Citizen’s Life
This election article is a bit atypical for me in that it will contain EVERYTHING, rather than being broken up into three parts: local/state/federal elections. Since it’s very late in the election cycle, I plead […]
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A Fantastic Development
By now you’ve seen the news about Mercury Public Affairs terminating its registration as a foreign agent of the Republic of Turkey and how this came about. For me, this is an Armeni-verse achievement that […]
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It was great!
It was great! I was in a sea of Armenians! (Somehow, using “ocean” doesn’t seem right given that Armenia borders on seas, not oceans). But how did I get there? Sadly, it started with Turks […]
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No Surprise
It’s no surprise that Turks are killing Armenians again. And, for clarity and the purposes of this observation, there’s no point in making a distinction between Erdoğan’s murderous minions and the pup-Turk Azeris being treated […]