Pashinyan did not win. he just managed not to lose

Aliyev’s henchman Nikol Pashinyan has a simple explanation for another dose of speeches full of disgusting words and hatred. he did not win these elections, but only managed not to lose.

In addition, he is particularly concerned about the fact that after subjecting the Armenian people to so many trials, losses, pain, after the loss of Artsakh, after the occupation of our territories, after the invisible but very dangerous psychological and informational war waged against us together with Aliyev, 749,437 RA citizens said “no”. Those citizens, regardless of their political views, approaches and preferences, gave a simple message to both Aliyev, Pashinyan and various international actors. That message is as follows: “War is not peace, it is not normal to live in poverty, it is not normal not to have national dignity, it is not normal to have prisoners in Baku, it is not normal to have occupied territories, it is not normal to change the Constitution at Aliyev’s will, it is not normal to be afraid to pronounce the word Artsakh, it is not normal to be proud of the ethnic cleansing that took place in Artsakh, it is not normal to attack the Armenian Apostolic Church at the request of Baku, it is not normal to drag the victim’s mother, you are not normal. It’s not normal to say to a critical person, “Why didn’t you die?”

This series can be continued, but the fact remains that those who do not consider the plan of Nikol Pashinyan and his political forces to disfigure RA at the will of Aliyev as “peace” are the majority, because people have decided to be guided by simple logic, they have decided to show will, they have decided not to kill their sense of national dignity. I am not saying this to annoy or target those who voted for Pashinyan, I have never done that and I will never do that. I know that a part of people are guided by fear, interest, in the end, maybe also being under propaganda, they have no desire to raise logical questions. It is up to them to decide. I am sure that when they want to see the facts, they will see them immediately.

What I have to say is as follows: Pashinyan lost in the moral and psychological field, he lost in the ideological and value field, moreover, he did not lose to the opposition or any specific political force, but to the Armenian public itself. Now, he can call hundreds of thousands of people who voted against him “bribe takers” or “oppositionists of peace”, that does not change the reality, and he knows it. That’s why he behaves like this, it seems that he would even like to tell Aliyev to attack one more time, as if the Armenian people have not been disciplined well, they still have dignity and the will to resist. But that would also contradict the false talk about “peace” in which the “Demolish the State” political force has fallen into its trap…

Azerbaijanologist Tatev Hayrapetyan

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