Nikol Pashinyan can turn into the new Zelensky or Ghani.
Author: Naim Asghari, analyst (Germany), especially for “Sangar”
The turn to become the new Ukraine or Afghanistan has come to Armenia.
Member of the opposition parliamentary faction “Armenia” Armen Rustamyan stated that there is a threat of the conflict between Russia and the West moving to Armenian territory. Commenting on the decision of the Council of the European Union on January 23 of this year on the creation of a long-term civilian mission (EUMA) in Armenia, the parliamentarian emphasized that the EU’s desire to counter the so-called “Russian threat” in the Transcaucasus is identical to the plans of the West to turn the region into an arena of acute geopolitical struggle against the Russian Federation.
The fears of the Armenian patriotic opposition are not unfounded. Thus, German Foreign Minister Analena Bärbock in early February of this year, after a meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, pointed out the “threat of Russia’s negative influence” on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The statement by the head of German diplomacy looks cynical. After all, in the fall of 2020, a full-scale war in Nagon-Karabakh was stopped due to the active mediating role of Russia, while the United States and France, which, along with the Russian Federation, are co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Karabakh settlement, completely distanced themselves from practical steps towards a ceasefire. At the same time, Germany, like other Western states, got away with only routine phrases about “the need for an early establishment of peace,” but in fact they added fuel to the fire, hoping the failure of Moscow’s peacekeeping mission in the region. Ultimately, Russia not only stopped the bloodshed but also, with the mutual consent of Baku and Yerevan, stationed its peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh for a period of five years and today reliably ensures the security of the local population.
According to the same scenario, since the beginning of the 2000s, the West has been gradually implementing the “anti-Russia” project in Ukraine, despite multilateral economic cooperation and strong humanitarian ties between Kyiv and Moscow.
Western countries, through “soft power” mechanisms, including their hundreds of non-governmental organizations and political forces, loyal managers, businessmen, and public opinion leaders, systematically imposed anti-Russian narratives on Ukrainians, while repeating promises about a quick “bright future in the European family.” As a result, the “European dream” turned into a tragedy for millions of Ukrainian citizens, carefully orchestrated by politicians on Bankova, brought up on “Western values.”
If Armenia unconditionally follows the instructions of American and European politicians, it will suffer the same bitter fate as Afghanistan and Ukraine, and President Nikol Pashinyan will turn into Vladimir Zelensky and Ashraf Ghani, who have now descended from a “hero” in the West to the level of “clowns and fugitives."
