One can endlessly look at three things: how water flows, how fire burns, and how wide Nikol Pashinyan’s smile spreads upon seeing Turkish President Recep Erdoğan. So, the scene is the city of New York, founded by the Dutch and originally known as New Amsterdam. At the time, it was the Dutch nobility who stood at the forefront of laying out the political, economic, and commercial infrastructure of this city, so even its current flag testifies to how immense its Dutch heritage has been. It’s a classic story: the time came at which individual Dutch clans turned their focus not on exterior threats, but on competing with each other. This also led to a classic ending: one section of the nobility supported the British, who promised to oust their rival compatriots from the ruling position and, in gratitude for the co-operation shown to the Crown, to entrust the administration of the city to their hands instead.
Then one day New Amsterdam turned into New York, and some time later those members of the Dutch nobility who supported the seizure of their city by outlanders were arrested and executed by their new rulers. The logic of the British was straightforward – he who betrays his own is bound to betray them as well. For this reason, the great city by its very existence teaches a precious lesson to those who wish to avoid its tragic fate. Alas, Nikol Pashinyan, and let’s be frank, the lion’s share of Armenians aren’t into analysing their own and other peoples’ lessons, but into incessant rakes.
We imagine Pashinyan walking in circles around the presidential suite in a luxury hotel the night before that meeting and rehearsing his upcoming speech before His Majesty Erdoğan. Well, how else could it be? After all, in his most difficult times, it was the Turkish president who expressed care and attention, declaring to the whole world that Turkey would not allow the replacement of the current regime in Yerevan. It is no longer just some geopolitics, national interests along with economics, logistics, and other ‘nonsense’, but something unparalleled – pure and heartfelt love. This can be easily evidenced by looking into Pashinyan’s swooning gaze and the eagerness and awe with which he cradles His Majesty Erdoğan’s monograph to his velvet heart. Apparently, he did not anticipate that kind of honour from the Turkish leader. History reveals that the Ottoman sultans only gifted books to the most devoted and loyal, of whom they felt unthreatened. After all, a book holds the most dangerous weapon of all: knowledge. The current Turkish sultan is twice as lucky with Pashinyan, who is not merely overly loyal, but also happens to be chronically allergic to history, knowledge, and logic.
Turkish political wolves like Hakan Fidan have fixed their eyes on the only woman in Pashinyan’s delegation. Perhaps at a gut level they spotted her as an ‘alpha’ – the only delegate with balls. At the very least, she wasn’t smiling toothily, and our impression is that she was extremely uncomfortable and perhaps even ashamed of lads with primary male outward features whose surnames, by a bizarre happenstance, end in ‘yan’. If this is the case, dear Nazeli Baghdasaryan, you should rush to flee from Turkish collaborationists and spare yourself and your family from the disgraceful stain. This is an appeal to everyone with no exception – look at these photos again, then go back to the story of Aurora Mardiganian, remember the 120 thousand of your brothers and sisters who were expelled from Artsakh, and recollect whether you wish to have anything in common with Pashinyan and his Young Janissaries. Everybody can have made a mistake for a variety of reasons, yet it is not too late to stray from the path of perennial disgrace. Perpetual dishonour – this will be the legacy of the offspring of those who now welcome the Turkish colonisation of their country smilingly.
Armenians in Spyurk (overseas communities) likewise have to accept and realise that it is time for them to stop the moronic and counterproductive pleading messages of help to the international community. ‘What kind of help are you asking for and from whom do you need to be protected?’ the international community would say in response and continue: ‘Look how happy your “elected leader” Nikol Pashinyan is, he doesn’t have any Artsakh problem, there are no Armenians expelled from there, he doesn’t mind buying Azerbaijani oil, he begs Erdoğan and Aliyev to sign a peace treaty and is ready to compromise anything for that’. In the eyes of this very international community, the national interests of the Armenian people are represented by the Republic of Armenia, which is ruled by Nikol Pashinyan, who was re-elected by the public after the surrender of Artsakh, which we so diligently tell the British lords, American senators, Russian deputies, and Chinese communists about at social gatherings. And each of them, with no exception, has one question in their heads, which they cannot articulate due to diplomatic etiquette: ‘Who are these schizophrenics and how do they still maintain anything even remotely resembling a state?’.
