Journalists from NA Speaker Alen Simonyan at the National Assembly today were interested in What will happen to those Artsakh citizens who went to Kornidzor yesterday to take photos against the background of Artsakh, and on the way back, the National Security Service confiscated their phones? In response, he first considered it necessary to make a question-“remark”, noting:

“I want to ask, why do you say Artsakh? I am just curious. Then why do you feel bad when some territories of the Republic of Armenia are given Azerbaijani names, and Sevan is given some other name somewhere, do you feel bad, why do you feel bad? Why don’t you give the same name to the Constitution of Karabakh, it’s just interesting, because you are all politicized, you are all busy presenting demanding things. In that case, I ask you, don’t feel bad that in some country, some person can say to Yerevan: Yerevan, and say something else to Sevan. Karabakh also belongs to Azerbaijan, so why do you give it another name?

Can we say that the representative of the government, who leads the legislative body, accusing his political rivals of “making war-provoking statements” is legitimizing a possible new war in Armenia and giving legitimate grounds for it? Moreover, before this, Alen Simonyan has already managed to legitimize Baku’s military-political plan to start a war against Artsakh and Armenia in September 2020. Specifically, in 2024 “Freedom” in the conversation with, to the question whether Azerbaijan had a legitimate right to attack Karabakh, Simonyan answered: «Azerbaijan carried out an operation in Karabakh under which it had at least 3-4 UN resolutions»:

In this context, let us remind that in 1992-1996 The head of the mediation mission of Russia, the luminary Vladimir Kazimirov, said at the time that Azerbaijan did not fulfill the 4 resolutions of the United Nations.

“All of them have failed, they have not been implemented. And by whom were they not implemented: Azerbaijan? In 1993 in the spring Armenians captured Kelbajar. The success of this operation provided the Armenians with another route connecting Karabakh and Armenia in addition to the Lachin Corridor. After that, Azerbaijan takes the initiative to discuss this issue in the Security Council.

SC in 1993 on April 30, adopts resolution 822 on the issue of Nagorno Karabakh. Baku expected that the resolution would include a demand for Armenians to release the occupied Azerbaijani territories. However, the Azerbaijani side did not take into account that this demand in the document will be preceded by an important demand to immediately stop fire, military operations and even “hostile operations”.

And what constitutes “hostile action”? It is the energy, economic, transportation blockade of the Armenian territories. Baku did not expect this. And that is the most important demand in all four resolutions – the cessation of fire.

However, Azerbaijan was still under illusions that it would be able to defeat the Armenians by force. Its potential is, of course, more significant or respectable, both in terms of territory, population, and armament, because after the collapse of the USSR, Azerbaijan received more military assets than Armenia. For example, the Aghdam depots were the strategic reserves of the Soviet Army in Transcaucasia. There are about 16 airports in Azerbaijan, and only 2-3 in Armenia. But potential alone is not enough to win. After the adoption of Resolution 822, I convinced the Americans and even the Turks.

And the three of us – Russia, the USA and Turkey – addressed all three sides of the problem with a written question. “Are you ready for the full implementation of Resolution 822?” Yerevan and Stepanakert gave their consent, Baku chose not to respond at all. for he hoped nevertheless to win. That is why the war did not stop. And the four resolutions of the UN Security Council regarding Karabakh were practically devalued. The SC was already unwilling to accept the fifth resolution because it would undermine its authority. he makes resolutions and they are not fulfilled. That is why, when we were working on the ceasefire agreement, we could not work on the basis of Security Council resolutions. We had to create another basis for ourselves.” in 2016 “Moscow Komsomolets” given to the periodical in the interview explained Kazimirov.

In other words, Azerbaijan has always accused the Republic of Armenia of not fulfilling the UN resolutions, and it did so even days before the 44-day war.

of 2020 on September 21 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in connection with the opening of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly in New York video message remembered the UN resolutions and emphasized. “We have only one condition to achieve peace: the armed forces of Armenia must be withdrawn from all the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.”

If we accept for a moment that Azerbaijan had a legitimate right to attack Artsakh, then why was Armenia in a hurry to declare martial law in RA on September 27, 2020, why did it not stop the war in the first days, why was the same Alen Simonyan in October 2020, when the war was still going on, with “Azatutya” in the interview declares that there is two choices: one is “Lavrov’s plan”, which is unacceptable to him, the other is to make a breakthrough in the war, which he believed we had the opportunity to do.

6 years after the war, can Alen Simonyan say whether we made a mistake, that we started an “illegitimate” struggle against the “legitimate right” of Azerbaijan, or on what basis was he sure in mid-October 2020 that we would be able to make a breakthrough, and why they didn’t introduce, moreover, why the “Lavrov Plan” was unacceptable, but the Prague documents of 2022 were acceptable, by which the entire Artsakh passed to Azerbaijan. They will say that they protected the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia, but why didn’t they try to do it by preventing the war, for example, with the “Lavrov Plan”, and who questioned the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia with the mileage by which Armenia gained independence?

Let’s not forget that the current government in 2019, represented by the Secretary of the Council of Ministers Armen Grigoryan, noted that their “freedoms and united dreams are protected on the territory of 42.000 square meters”. They will say again if they made a mistake, and did Alen Simonyan read that in Nikol Pashinyan’s quote “All prerequisites for peace are present” the article where he, in particular, noted.

“I have stated several times that even The territories of more than 200 square kilometers, which are an integral part of the 29,743 square kilometers of internationally recognized sovereign territory of RA, which are currently under the occupation of Azerbaijan…»:

The occupied territories were not returned, right? Actually, it turns out that there is no territory of 29,743 square kilometers, or is it a mental mistake in this case as well?

Aren’t the current authorities making a lot of mistakes… and in fact, it’s not a mistake, but a politically calculated move that is advantageous at the moment, this also applies to the “Aghdam is our homeland” campaign, which has been repeatedly mentioned letterwe went which was later confirmed by Alen Simonyan himself, that the goal was to oppose Serzh Sargsyan.

And what do you think about the then president of Artsakh in September 2019? Was calling Bako Sahakyan a governor by chance? of course not. And the question is that during the question-and-answer session with journalists today, NA Speaker Alen Simonyan, in fact, did not rule out that there may be some change of views in the future, because today’s ideological transformation was conditioned by the rapidly changing challenges and developments in the world.

Naturally, Armenia should be able to move in line with geopolitical developments and combine its interest, the national interest, with the interests of other states, but are these authorities doing this?

Some of the examples given by Alen Simonyan are absolutely not about that, you cannot start a campaign after the change of power: “Aghdam is our homeland” when The third president of RA, Serzh Sargsyan, clearly explained why Aghdam had to be taken and why he said, “Aghdam is not our homeland”, but only a piece of his speech was taken and manipulated.

Or, what does the changing world have to do with the students of historian-teacher Suren Papikyan? taught for example, that Azerbaijanis are Caucasian Tatars, who, due to one or another circumstance, penetrated into our region, and now, perhaps, it is the bearer of a different “historical reality”.

You cannot, having a higher education, at some stage consider not only Artsakh, but also a certain part of RA as Armenian, and then as Azerbaijani, but take as a basis the declaration of Alma Ata of 1991, the map of 1975, etc. This is not an entirely positive change. Of course, geopolitical realities teach us to revise tactics, but not to rewrite historical facts. Today, no one says that the lost Artsakh should be taken back by force, or that it should be returned there, because the current realities do not give it the “right”. No one is saying that you have to start from scratch and “delete” the Washington documents, but of course you can fill them in, especially against Iran. in the background of war. What, the war against Iran did not give rise to consequences?

As for the fact that Azerbaijan calls Yerevan “Irevan”, Sevan – “Goycha”, and so on, then this is not a retaliatory action, Aliyev never conditioned either this or the “Western Azerbaijan” political project (which existed before the 2020 war) with this, but the return of Azerbaijanis to Armenia is observing in the context of international human rights. This is a state policy, within the framework of which “scientific-legal evidence” is created, including a virtual encyclopedia about “Western Azerbaijan”. resource, which includes maps, and which, in particular, includes “Yerevan and Gyumri, mosques, graves and 1192 villages”, a dictionary of “Western Zangezur” place names, etc. Moreover, they regularly warn that all this will not remain on paper, there will be a physical return and control.

Let us emphasize that Aliyev does not condition this on whether the journalists say Artsakh or Karabakh. And the Declaration of Independence is removed from the RA constitution purely based on some political ambitions, tactics and maybe “fears”, but its exclusion will not prevent Aliyev’s political plans related to “Western Azerbaijan”, which Pashinyan’s government might one day start lobbying, and now, before the elections, they do not emphasize it so that my mood does not fall. Not excluded.

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Armine Hayrapetyan published the transcript of Nikol Pashinyan’s hysterical attack in the subway and Armine Mosiyan’s answers.

“Before the famous hit, he had already offered the map badge to 3 people: a man coming out of doors, a young man looking into his phone, and also a famous journalist on the same train. All three refused, and the journalist’s “I don’t want a map with that image” was received with special respect. “Very good, we have an ideological disagreement.”

In general, on that day in the train, everyone could refuse the gift of “breastplate-map”. To all, EXCEPT ONE.

The next heroes of the live show were the little boy and his mother reading a book. A little later, under the noise of the wheels gathering momentum of the train, the question was sounded.

(I transcribed the entire text below word by word from the famous video, you can compare)

Nikol Pashinyan – Brother, can I give you one of these?

Child: No

Nikol Pashinyan – No?

A woman from Artsakh – We are from Artsakh and to tell the truth, we have a different map

Nikol Pashinyan – What map do you have, sorry?

A woman from Artsakh – More different… (the last few words are not heard)

Nikol Pashinyan – Yes, very good, very good

Five seconds later

Nikol Pashinyan – But your son will live in this map, take that into account

Artsakh woman – Maybe now, but…

Nikol Pashinyan – (interrupts) there is none

A woman from Artsakh – But there is

Nikol Pashinyan – there is no more, we will not let your ideology…

A woman from Artsakh – You won’t let us live in our Artsakh, you haven’t already?

Nikol Pashinyan – You know what…

Artsakh woman – You cannot deprive us of living in Artsakh, the hope of return and everything else

Nikol Pashinyan – You know what, I did everything…

Woman from Artsakh – (interrupts) Please don’t continue, I don’t want to

Nikol Pashinyan – I will not continue, I will continue

A woman from Artsakh – We are late for the tournament, to be honest…

Nikol Pashinyan – My talking does not disturb the train

A woman from Artsakh – (voice obviously excited) – please listen, we are late for the chess tournament, otherwise we would have gone down immediately, but since our hours are counted and we will be defeated for being late, we stayed here, please do not continue our conversation

Nikol Pashinyan – (interrupts) Very well, but since I listened to you, you should also listen to me. We have done everything for you to live in Artsakh, Karabakh, in 2023 it was you who accused me of closing the borders so that the people would not come to Artsakh… so that the people from Karabakh don’t come to Armenia, and you demanded me to open the borders, and you said that I should close them specifically so that the people from Karabakh don’t leave. Now you came here, you say we wanted to come back, (very loudly, waving a finger) but we spent billions earned by the citizens of Armenia so that you could stay here… why didn’t you stay?

A woman from Artsakh – (interrupts) Don’t talk to me waving your finger

Nikol Pashinyan – I will talk to you like this

Parallel:

Artsakh woman – Don’t talk to me in a loud voice and your position here has nothing to do with it

Nikol Pashinyan – I will talk to you like this, and don’t talk about this map so condescendingly

A woman’s voice in the background of Nikol Pashinyan’s loud voice

Woman from Artsakh – What you said has absolutely nothing to do with what I said

Parallel:

Nikol Pashinyan – (in a very loud voice) Any of you, any of you (waving his finger), any of you, any of you (repeats 4 times, looking into the woman’s eyes, waving his finger)

A woman’s voice in the background of Nikol Pashinyan’s loud voice

Artsakh woman – I was talking about a bigger map plus 12,000 square kilometers, don’t talk to me in a loud voice

Nikol Pashinyan – I will talk to you in a loud voice

Artsakh woman – Don’t try

Nikol Pashinyan – Then next time don’t try to say that… with the fugitives, don’t try to say that I gave Karabakh…

A woman from Artsakh – with runaways… if you have found one or two Karabaghs, Artsakh people who talk to you to please the government, it does not mean that all Artsakh people have the same opinion.

Nikol Pashinyan – Listen, tens of thousands of citizens…

Artsakh woman – We are late, don’t make us get off early, we are very late…

Nikol Pashinyan – It is the last stop

The camera pans to capture the woman’s face

Woman from Artsakh – Thank you, there is no need to take pictures of us

Nikol Pashinyan – Tens of thousands of people from Karabagh have received Armenian citizenship and are living in Armenia.

Artsakh woman – Because we have no other choice

Nikol Pashinyan – Don’t use those people in vain, in vain, in vain…

Woman from Artsakh – Until then, we had blue passports of the Republic of Armenia, which were passports, not travel documents.

Nikol Pashinyan – Yes

A woman from Artsakh – For your information, for us and for everyone

Nikol Pashinyan – I know, for your information, and that of Armenia…

A woman from Artsakh – And if people take citizenship again, it means that they have no other means, people live without work, they pay rent, they do it to take advantage of the small rent, that’s just the reason, and not because people find that they are not citizens of the Republic of Armenia and get citizenship again.

Nikol Pashinyan – Listen… people… I am asking for one thing alone…, I am asking for one thing alone. that travel thing… the trend should be removed, the child should calm down, this child does not need to stay…

Artsakh woman – This child wants his house, he wants his room

Nikol Pashinyan – It will

A woman from Artsakh – She wants her toys

Nikol Pashinyan – He will have, he will have…

A woman from Artsakh – She wants her Artsakh, she wants to go to her grandfather’s great-grandfather, who was a legendary commander in 1993 and was killed

Nikol Pashinyan – Dear… very good…

A woman from Artsakh – I’m not interested anymore… in general… I am not one of the Artsakh people you know… (in a loud emotional voice)

Nikol Pashinyan – That child will live in Armenia

Artsakh woman – I don’t continue at all

Nikol Pashinyan – That child will live in Armenia

A woman from Artsakh – (to herself) The child is so angry, will there be a competition after this? We are going out now.

Nikol Pashinyan – The child will live in Armenia, the child will live in Armenia… My request is that you don’t need to stay in the child… enter, I won’t say anything either, don’t come out, I’ll leave you alone…I leave you alone

Artsakh woman – The child, the child… the child is in the motherland, because he does not understand the homeland only Artsakh, he understands Artsakh and Armenia, united

Nikol Pashinyan – Yes, yes, the Republic of Armenia

A woman from Artsakh – 12,000 plus 30,000 square kilometers…

Nikol Pashinyan – Republic of Armenia

A woman from Artsakh – it is the first time in the history of the Armenian people that a Turk lives on the land of Artsakh

Nikol Pashinyan – (Repeats in the same tone) The Republic of Armenia

The train stops

Woman from Artsakh – Today is the worst day of my life, I never imagined that I would see you

Nikol Pashinyan – It’s okay, you have to… do you have to…

Artsakh woman – Please your policemen…

Nikol Pashinyan – (interrupts) Very good, very good, they will leave you alone… quiet

A woman leaves with a child

ATTENTION, THE DOORS ARE CLOSING.”

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Political scientist Vazgen Hovhannisyan in my opinion, a sober person cannot have such an idea that the people of Artsakh have fled.

“A moral person will never have such a question that the people of Artsakh have fled. The people of Artsakh were subjected to ethnic cleansing. 2023 The threat of genocide hung over the heads of the people of Artsakh like a sword of Damocles, those people simply had no other option and were subjected to ethnic cleansing, which is one of the tools of the genocide.

As for Pashinyan’s statement that he did not surrender Artsakh, the November 9 statement was signed on his own initiative, that is, the war was defeated by that person, and then he created such conditions, as a result of which Azerbaijan, implementing its consistent policy, subjected the Artsakh state to dismantling and subjected the people to genocide with the tools of ethnic cleansing.

In other words, the fault lies with the military-political leadership of the day, which signed the statement of November 9 and after that tried to leave the Artsakh issue little by little.” 168TV “Review” he said during the program, emphasizing that as long as Pashinyan is in power, we will constantly hear the narrative that he is not guilty and that Artsakh was surrendered in September 2023.

Pashinyan does not say Artsakh in 2023. it was handed over in September, but he says that it was handed over by the previous authorities, Artsakh was part of Azerbaijan for 30 years, etc., Vazgen Hovhannisyan responded like this: “Oh, that’s delusional, what does it mean, the previous authorities handed it over?” A normal historian will write in the history book that by 2018 The Armenian units controlled not only the territory of the Republic of Armenia, but also the Republic of Artsakh, which was the subject of negotiations between the Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan. After 2018, the narratives changed, after which we saw a war, after the war, the gradual dissolution of Artsakh by Azerbaijan…”

He emphasized that Pashinyan and his teammates are promoting the Azeri agenda, according to which Armenia should have a miserable status, where the decision-maker is not the RA citizen and the RA state interest, but the service of Azerbaijan’s strategic interests. “I continue to insist that Nikol Pashinyan’s stay in power every day leads to the dissolution and dismantling of the Armenian state.”

According to him, when Pashinyan declares that if he is not re-elected, there will be a war, then it should be looked at with Azerbaijan’s logic. “Since Pashinyan’s government is collaborationist, Azerbaijan is not using a military tool at the moment, because Nikol Pashinyan meets all the demands.

When will Azerbaijan use a military tool, i.e. pay a higher price to get something? at a time when there will be a containment policy against him. In the case of Pashinyan, they do not use force, because just as Pashinyan strangled Artsakh and handed it over to the enemy, he will strangle RA in the same way. In other words, the map that he is walking around in his hand, tomorrow if Azerbaijan decides to subject Syunik to military occupation, he will walk around with a smaller map.”

Details in the 168TV video

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Nikol Pashinyan’s statements about the possibility of a “new war” show that in reality we are dealing not with peace, but with the process of fulfilling Turkish-Azerbaijani demands under the threat of war and death. About this 168 TVof Revue mentioned on the air of the program International scholar Menua Soghomonyan, member of “HayaVote” national-civic union.while talking about Pashinyan’s recent statements.

“I mean, if he [Nikol Pashinyan] became incapacitated or, let’s say, died of a heart attack, does that mean it’s over? The Armenian people don’t have a chance to live?” This shows that we are dealing not with peace, but with war, with the process of remaining silent under the threat of death and fulfilling the demands of a meek-submissive Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem, with concessions made, in return for which they do not shoot at us for a short time, and these concessions will continue until they trample us and eliminate us completely,” commented the international expert.

According to Menua Soghomonyan, Pashinyan emphasizes in his speech the need for the KP to obtain a constitutional majority as a result of the new National Assembly elections in order to be able to re-appoint the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, the members of the Constitutional Court, make all the changes he wants in the Constitutional Court, and have all the independent state bodies, including the National Assembly, the CEC, in his hands to make further concessions to Turkey and Azerbaijan. purpose. The representative of “HayaKve” emphasizes that if this happened, these would be constitutional crimes.

Menua Soghomonyan answers Nikol Pashinyan’s predictions that the opposition forces are preparing “a new September war” with a question.

“And who said that there must be a war?” If he is sincere (of course, he cannot be considered a sincere person), then he should tell in more detail. He declares that he even knows for a month, “it will happen in September”. And maybe he knows the day, maybe he already knows the day that the war will take place. If he knows that there will be a war in September, then someone told him about it.

The speaker must be from Ankara, Turkey, or from Baku. Who else should threaten us with war? If they said such a thing, let the people tell them from where they said that there will be a war in September, who said it, because he himself says: “If it’s up to me, I’ll conduct foreign policy live. I’m open to the people, no one has ever been more open than us.” Now let him say the following that “Erdogan told me that there should be no such change in the Constitution in connection with the Declaration of Independence, if there is no such change in connection with the role of the Church…”, list those “ifs”, so to speak, “hotelkas”, and say that: “Dear people, this is not peace, but blackmail, and I offer a policy of concessions in exchange for that blackmail.” Menua Soghomonyan.

The international expert also raises another question, for example, did he contact the Russian President Putin in connection with these blackmails?

In this context, referring to the telephone conversation between Pashinyan and Putin that took place yesterday, March 23, Menua Soghomonyan expressed the opinion that the anti-Russian attitude carried out by these authorities is just a show.

“For example, did he turn to Putin or Macron or Trump, to whom he constantly said: “God bless you”, “God bless you”? Has he applied for this blackmail and what did people say? Did they say: “We are washing our hands of this matter, go and look at your head.” If that’s the case, let him stand up and say: dear people, I went, I spoke, they told me directly.

Let him say so, if that is what he represents. Let him say, and then let the people decide whether they need such a leader who has no grace, no tongue, no ability to create a security cushion around Armenia, no ability to make agreements with various actors, no ability to ensure internal social cohesion, eliminate hatred and division, no ability to rapidly and steadily develop the military defense system.

Let the people know what kind of leader they need, do they need such a leader, who puts blackmail in front of them every day, at every step, and says, “Well, we have to give, we have to give.” So don’t call it peace and don’t say that Armenia was more sovereign than ever. “Sovereign Armenia cannot be intimidated by a month-to-date war,” says Soghomonyan.

According to the interlocutor’s assessment, the level of Armenia’s sovereignty is at its lowest point in history, and Armenia has never been so rudely dictated to, first of all by Azerbaijan and Turkey. According to the international expert, it is so, because the people at the head of the state think about their power, not the state. According to Menua Soghomonyan, the authorities of the day are “authorities suitable for everyone”, including, as surprising as it may seem at first sight, they are suitable authorities for Moscow or at least “certain towers of the Kremlin”. Well, as they say, there is no question about Turkey and Azerbaijan, the United States and the European Union.

“Actually, look what’s happening. The anti-Russianness carried out by these authorities is just a geopolitical show, but that show affects the consciousness of a part of the Armenian people. Their failures, the damages suffered by the state as a result of their betrayal, the handing over of Artsakh, in the search for the culprits to justify all this, they point to Russia, they demand absolution from Russia on Facebook, but at the same time we see that they are signing a trade deal with the same Russia, under historically record indicators. We have to take all this into account, is this anti-Russian?

Does Sandu of Moldova call Putin or go to meetings with Putin? There is no such thing, therefore this is not anti-Russian, this is a geopolitical show that the West is satisfied with, and this situation is beneficial to the Russians to the extent that they are still busy with the Ukrainian war and have a very good excuse for themselves: “look, your authorities are speaking anti-Russian like that, and we are not fulfilling our contractual obligations because of it.” Pashinyan also says: “Since we appealed to the CSTO, they did not respond, I am also freezing them.” What cooling? There is no such status in political science. For several years now, he has been saying, “CSTO is a security threat.”

Well, you are such a “stupid” prime minister, leave the CSTO, remove the Russian military base. Or you talk about “colonization”, you point the finger at everyone: “colonization”, “colonization”. Name one more state. More precisely, name a president. If by “colonization” you mean that Russia keeps us colonized, then talk about it, say it out loud. Who has been at the head of that “colonization” of Russia for 26 years, Vladimir Putin? Well, dear “Dukhov”, tell the people about it, tell it to Putin. “Putin, why are you colonizing us?” added Menua Soghomonyan.

Let’s remind that on March 19, in a briefing with journalists after the regular session of the Government, Nikol Pashinyan once again called the opposition forces called “war party”, declaring that “the forces acting from the positions of peace revision are preparing a new September war with grave consequences”.

And on Sunday, March 22, while summing up the intra-party campaign day in Yerevan, Nikol Pashinyan announced in a conversation with the party members. “There will be a war in September, and a catastrophic war at that, if the “Civil Agreement” party, I’m not saying wins the elections, does not get a constitutional majority.”

Full interview in the video.

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Political scientist Vahe Davtyan writes: “There are conditions in which the only alternative to revanchism is assimilation. Substantial nutrition. A people living in a closed cycle of injustice for years cannot help but accumulate negative energy. And that energy sooner or later transforms into big waves of extremism. It is a special “compressed spring”, the opening of which sometimes has disastrous consequences.

The reality is, sooner or later that spring snaps.

Read the classics of geopolitics, from Haushofer to Gumilev, who long established this fundamental pattern at the biological level. Each ethnic group strives for the expansion of its living space. Meanwhile, the purposeful compression of that space within the ethnic group leads to deep mental distortions, collective complexes. As a result, there is a desire to establish justice. Sometimes it’s a healthy aspiration, sometimes it’s fanatical. But that is perhaps another topic.
That accumulation begins with the elementary opposition “I-he”, “us-them”, without which there is no identity. Neither national nor political. Instead there is a virtual identity, a digital identity with extensive artificial intelligence infrastructure.

And today they are trying to root out that organic opposition by unilaterally establishing “peace” and liquidating the Declaration of Independence, by symbolic importation of wheat and gasoline, and by statements about the non-existence of the Artsakh movement. The goal is simple: by excluding that opposition, we also exclude our re-consciousness.

Parallel to that, in Azerbaijan, “us-them” is a basic factor of state policy. The second Artsakh war and subsequent developments created fertile ground for nation-building, national and political identity formation in Azerbaijan. Today they are in the most active stage of that process. Meanwhile, they urge us not to use the place name “Artsakh” so that in Azerbaijan… they don’t use “Goychan”.

This is a psychological operation, the goal of which is the deactivation of collective memory, the gradual dismantling of political subjectivity. In this context, the artificial cancellation of the “us-them” contrast is not a reconciliation mechanism, but a disorientation mechanism.

The paradox is that on one side “us-them” is institutionalized, on the other side it is presented as a source of backwardness and even a threat.

However, historical experience shows that such asymmetries do not last long. A spring cannot be compressed indefinitely.”

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168TVof “Trigger” the guest of the program Expert of “APRI-Armenia” scientific research center, candidate of historical sciences, internationalist, Israelologist Sergey Melkonyann is

During the conversation, the main aspects of the escalating conflict in the Middle East, its possible escalation from regional to global, as well as Iran’s ability to control the level of tension in the background of ongoing hostilities were touched upon.

Particular attention was paid to the conflicting impulses surrounding possible negotiations between the United States and Iran, including Washington’s attempts to reach out to Tehran through third countries.

Tools to pressure Iran, including informational and psychological, as well as leaks about contacts with individual representatives of the Iranian elite and risks of internal destabilization, including possible contradictions within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), were discussed.

The expansion of the geography of the conflict, including events in the Caspian Sea region, Iran’s influence on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and related risks to the global energy market were also at the center of the conversation.

Reference was made to the dissemination of information about possible terrorist attacks and the use of chemical weapons as an element of the information background, as well as the possible role of the EU.

The consequences of the already observed disruptions in logistics and the increase in energy prices for the South Caucasus and Armenia were considered, including the Iran factor as a possible deterrent in the regional security system.

In addition, the position of the world’s key players, Russia and China, and the conditions under which they can strengthen their participation, as well as the factors that can turn the current conflict into a large-scale global crisis, were discussed.

 Hayk Derzyan

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