Without a hint of embarrassment, the ‘opposition’ continues to play along with the current collaborationist regime, imitating the usual pre-election process. The political corpses are trying to drag along the remnants of Armenia.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Israeli air defence specialists representing ‘Strong Armenia’ were followed by new magical solutions from Robert Kocharyan’s fraternal ‘Armenia’. Since he has not developed interest in state- and army-building, he keeps returning to the ‘crime scene’: the search for ‘strategic allies’.
The search for allies and guarantors has become a national sport in the Third Republic. Instead of taking its own place in the region and the world, not to be blown away by the first strong wind, Armenia has spent 36 years searching for temporary patrons – mistakenly referred to as allies. It is not enough that the outcome of these wanderings has been deplorable. More importantly, the ‘second president’ is happy to make a mistake a second time, knowing full well that this time the chances of his gamble are many times less than they were then. All the more evil is the manner in which he misleads his ‘electorate’.
In turn, the Turkish collaborationist Pashinyan pretends to have realised this historic mistake, and allegedly builds ‘independence’ based on ‘dependence on many’. However, this wording, chosen by his court’s ‘analytical centres’, is just a ridiculous attempt to cover up the process of replacing the Russian metropolis with the Turkish one. Perhaps there are indeed a few more shareholders in this setup (by the way, Russia remains one of them), but the Armenian world is still not allowed to participate in these closed auctions.
However, even with superficially pro-Armenian intentions, such a ‘diversification of dependencies’ would not have produced the desired result, since the principle is not to increase the circle of witnesses and accomplices as the statehood is being destroyed, but to create a network of interdependent relations, whereby Armenia is a functional and contributing player that is difficult to replace in case of injury and one that will definitely be able to endure and keep fighting in that critical role – until the final whistle.
Everything that is being offered to us in the present pseudo-political arena is an absurd spectrum from ‘we need to please the allies, and they will save us’ (the very ‘allies’ that became silent witnesses and even accomplices to the national catastrophe that ensnared us) to ‘the allies will not save us, therefore we must completely submit to the enemies in order to receive guarantees’.
It has gotten to the point that the Turkish Young Janissaries are not shy about calling Armenia and Azerbaijan the guarantors of each other’s security. Little has changed since the times of Benjamin Franklin – death and taxes are the only thing that Azerbaijan and the regime of the Turkish collaborationist Pashinyan guarantee to today’s Armenia.
Of course, both ends of this absurd domestic political spectrum are well aware and have seen in practice that none of the colonisation formats promises Armenia anything else. They obviously know that there is no such category that is called guarantees in international relations. However, if they admit this to the Armenian people, how can they then force it to make a poisonous choice between their ‘guarantors’-masters?
And despite the fact that the ‘pre-election’ programme of the collaborationist ‘Civil Contract’ explicitly promises to make Armenia a country that will not pose a threat to Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan still does not accept Judas’ ‘guarantee’ and continues to arm itself. What will they do to those who are ‘not considered a threat’ – those, who 110 years ago massacred 1.5 million unarmed Armenians that did not even have an allusion of their own state? Those, who considered the rump of Artsakh left by the Turkish satrap after the 44-day war to be a threat and decided to deport 120,000 Armenians exhausted by hunger and deprived of support from official Yerevan? What kind of threat were the last 10 Armenian cripples left in Artsakh, that Azerbaijan eventually did not allow to live their short remaining lives in their own home?
For Pashinyan, TRIPP (the ‘Trump Route’ with a foreign controlling stake) and the fantasy of Gyumri–Kars railway are equivalent ‘guarantees’ of peace in the region. However, the Turkish satrap’s programme does not mention that peace in the region necessarily implies the existence of Armenia and the Armenian nation in it. Although he could have lied about this – as he lied in 2021, promising to return Shushi and Hadrut.
There is not a single force in the feudal clan system that would offer a vision of the region with a distinct place that the future Armenian state could occupy in it. This place must be important enough, so that we do not have to watch the race among the ‘guarantors’ with bated breath, fearing that we may have made the wrong bet ‘again’ – instead, Armenia itself must become the guarantor of their safe finish.
Foreign agents have many epithets for the future of Armenia. But Armenia has a future only as an independent national state and the centre of the global Armenian world. The Armenian world is a unique asset, such that only a few can boast about. Instead of involving it in the Armenian state-building, the collaborators intend to purge it again, excluding all those who disagree with the agenda of ‘peace’ – i.e. Turkish colonisation (see the last paragraph of their ‘election’ program).
For many years, the ‘opposition’ had similarly rejected the Armenian world as the Armenian state builder and the promoter of Armenian interests. In the worldview of Kocharyan, Tsarukyan, Sargsyan, Karapetyan, the Armenian world is not an agent of change, but a source of financing, and not an asset, but, to some extent, a ballast that creates obscure obligations for Armenia to the countries of residence of the Armenian world. They prefer to consider the Armenians outside of Armenia as second-rate people – those who have long established themselves in the largest countries of the world as competent, useful and responsible citizens with global connections and opportunities.
Driven into the enemy’s clutches, Armenia has no regional future, whether it is in the 3+3 format (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan + Turkey, Iran, Russia) or 3+3–Russia. The Armenian state cannot exist as an ‘outpost’ or ‘underbelly’ of losers and adventurers, as a colony of the Turkish world, as a thoroughfare and a roadside motel for trans-Caspian, trans-Caucasian and any other routes.
Every thinking Armenian is obliged to boycott the immersive performance, where we are offered to ‘choose’ between analogous options for destroying our own future. Otherwise, the stroke in the bulletin will be the last thing that Armenians will be able to write into the annals of Armenian history.
