Someone expresses an opinion, naturally through the government, that the question is very simple: do we continue the conflict with the two neighbors or not?
A simple question arises. friend, Armenia had a conflict with a neighbor, that is Azerbaijan. Has Armenia been in conflict with Turkey? If not having diplomatic relations is a conflict, then Armenia has also been in conflict with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan since independence, because it has not had diplomatic relations with them either.
But not having diplomatic relations is a conflict only for those people who have no idea about the history and logic of international relations. And those people, having no idea, or having any idea, bet on people who have no ability and desire to think when listening to any public speech, to manipulate reality and subject it to electoral capitalization.
In the opposite case, it is possible to say that Armenia has or had a conflict with two neighbors only in case of a desire to manipulate the reality, or in the absence of adequate ideas about the logic of interstate relations.
There is and has never been an Armenian-Turkish conflict. It didn’t happen.
The lack of diplomatic relations between states, different opinions, different ideas and approaches are not CONFLICT. there are different approaches and opinions among many states of the world, but this does not mean that there is a conflict between them.
The same Turkey was on the verge of a military conflict with Greece just a few years ago, and to this day they have different, radically different approaches to the Mediterranean region, but this does not mean that there is a Greek-Turkish conflict.
Stop tricking and intimidating people.
Analyst Hakob Badalyan
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