If more specific and objective.
From the point of view of real politics, post-Soviet countries have generally interested the West in terms of two main components: their use in the fight against the Russian Federation, and the presence of strategic raw materials in those countries.
And it doesn’t matter at all what the external packaging of that cooperation, and the state of actually being used, is: the spread of democracy or, say, the fight against terrorism… it does not change the content of things.
It is naïve to think that the leaders and elites of the “states prone to lying under the West” do not know or understand all this.
Direct personal bribes, whatever privileges, means of blackmail, possessing discreditable information about personal life are the effective tools and “help” these elites to put the future of their own countries on the table of destruction…
Former Georgia, currently Ukraine, Moldova are classic examples of this.
What is left of those states – just outer packaging, no content? They became states taken by rent. states that are openly ruled from outside against Russia…
Today, thanks to Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia has chosen the path of self-destruction. if Ukraine was, let’s say, a little more interesting to the EU and the USA, it had an unprecedented amount of resources and an army compared to Armenia, then in our case the confrontation with the Russians will be catastrophic both in terms of statelessness, as well as in terms of the existence of domestic Armenians, deprivations… people will live fantastically BAD.
Economically, military-technically, and security-wise comprehensively dependent on the Russian Federation, Armenia offers its services to work against the Russian Federation to the West and especially to its Turkish sector.
This is a geopolitical suicide that we once experienced at the beginning of the 20th century. this time we won’t leave a wet mark. This is the question…
The common citizen, who is the most vulnerable in all this, will feel the tragedy of such steps in the hardest way. What the Russian Federation is warning about every day at different levels, they will hit the ordinary Armenian first.
However, it seems that there are still tools to solve and save the situation, and that is the large participation in the June 7 elections and the right choice.
And the right choice is to choose any of the 3 opposition units.
The ordinary citizen will suffer the most, but the key to salvation is in his hands: to vote and stand up for the country.
We must spread this awareness and understand that there will be no other chance.
Political scientist Alen Ghevondyan
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