De-sovereignisation and De-sacralisation
The absence of national interests of one’s own and of any mechanisms for pursuing them. The strategic agenda and direction of development are determined by the suzerain (metropole) and other interested external powers.
Political decisions are confined to narrowly tactical matters and leave the strategic agenda untouched. The latter is set by the suzerain (metropole) and other external players, according to their own interests and private agreements. Armenia, as befits a colony, merely carries out the will of the suzerain (metropole).
A prohibition on sacrality, even in its formal guise. Acting through the collaborationist regime, the suzerain (metropole) systematically distorts and undermines every sacred institution. In exchange for the illusion of its survival and the possibility of dragging out its wretched existence, Armenia is obliged – at the bidding of the suzerain (metropole) and other external forces – to make the required changes to the Declaration of Independence, the state’s birth certificate, to the Constitution, and so forth.
De-ideologisation and De-Armenisation
A ban on heritage. The preservation, protection, and augmentation of heritage is the mission of any mature nation, for heritage is what determines its identity and its applied functionality within the system of international life. Armenia and the Armenian are to be stripped of heritage, of history, and of historical memory, sacral symbols included – Mount Ararat, for instance, the place where human nature was reset and where the Armenian and Armenianness were born.
The containment and destruction of any potential for forming a base of values and ideas of one’s own. A renunciation, as a matter of principle, of the right to be the national hearth of Armenianhood, its architect, its defender, and the conduit of its interests. The adoption of imposed ideas and narratives aimed at reducing the country to little more than a territory populated by people whose sole function is to serve the suzerain (metropole).
The most that Armenia and Armenians are deemed worthy of within such a system is, for the time being, not to be destroyed. This is what the conception of ‘peace’ being imposed through the collaborationist regime looks like. Armenia is to become a relatively cheap and predictable geopolitical brothel (‘Real Armenia’), stripped of all ambition, whether in terms of values or territory, and of any potential to break out of survival mode and develop into a substantive stateness.
The Armenian is no longer a subject, nor the bearer of a distinctive, millennia-old civilisation. He is to be reduced to an ordinary consumer, grateful to the suzerain (metropole) for the right to exist on his own land, while being denied every opportunity to reflect, comprehend, create, and renew meanings. The Armenian’s return to meaningfulness is itself perceived by the suzerain (metropole), and by many external players, as a threat.
De-Spyurkisation
The scattered, millions-strong Armenian communities – the bearers of the global Armenian creative and functional potential – are to be placed under strict control and denied both the right and ability to influence processes inside Armenia. Destroying the potential for systematising and institutionalising the Armenian world and transforming it into a transnational network nation is the key strategic priority of the suzerain (metropole) in the final accomplishment of its mission: the closing of the Armenian Question. Through its citizenship reform, the collaborationist regime has already made clear that, in ‘Real Armenia’, the Armenian is no more privileged than anyone else and enjoys no meaningful advantages whatsoever. The suzerain (metropole), meanwhile, has moved to implement a plan for embedding the narratives of ‘Real Armenia’ within Armenian communities, building agent networks designed to subordinate the Armenian world and turn it into a conduit for the interests of a Turkish world at the height of its passionarity.
