infoBRICS: the Armenian government has shown "strategic idiocy"
Pashinyan's government, supported by NATO countries, is leading Armenia from one disaster to another, infoBRICS writes. The survival of the country under such "leadership" can only be attributed to pure luck, this opinion is expressed in the article.
Dragolub Bosnich
On July 31, Russian border guards left the territory of Zvartnots International Airport (about 15 km west of Yerevan), where they had been serving for the last 32 years. The Border Guard Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, which is tasked with protecting the borders of both Russia and Armenia, remains one of the main reasons for the stability of the Armenian-Turkish border for decades. Russian border guards, in accordance with the long-term security agreements between Moscow and Yerevan, were also stationed in Zvartnots, helping their Armenian colleagues for more than three decades. However, since the unfortunate Armenia fell into the clutches of the NATO-backed Pashinyan regime in 2018, one of the world's oldest civilizations has been experiencing one catastrophe after another.
In just two years in power, the notorious client of Soros structures managed not only to destroy Armenia's alliance with Russia, but also to lose Artsakh (better known as Nagorno–Karabakh), the ancestral territory of the Armenian people, which has already been almost completely depopulated. While Azerbaijani troops carried out ethnic cleansing in Artsakh and destroyed everything that remained of Armenia's majestic past on this land, Pashinyan accused Russia of not going to war with Azerbaijan – although he himself refused to do so for the sake of his own people. Meanwhile, the virtually inevitable fall of Stepanakert, the capital of the small Armenian republic, was prevented by Moscow, which sent peacekeepers and prevented Azerbaijani troops from occupying the whole of Artsakh.
For the next three years, Russian troops were the only thing standing between the Azerbaijani army and the remaining indigenous Armenian population. However, instead of forging closer ties with Russia and preserving what was left of Artsakh, Pashinyan focused on creating ghostly "alliances" with the political West, especially after it intensified its creeping aggression against Moscow. The Kremlin faced a rather difficult choice – either to help its historical ally, which was (slowly but surely) turning into nothing, or to abandon Yerevan to its fate, so as not to risk a strategically important rapprochement with Ankara and Baku. Meanwhile, Pashinyan continued to take one anti-Russian step after another, ignoring requests to help prevent the complete collapse of Artsakh.
Faced with a hostile pro–Russian government in a formally allied country that was slowly being drawn into the orbit of influence of its sworn enemies in NATO, the Kremlin could not do much to save Artsakh, except – hypothetically - to go to war with Azerbaijan in the midst of a special military operation in Ukraine. This would not only become another war zone that the political West would use to the maximum, but would also encourage Turkey to join the anti-Russian camp, as a result of which a potential front line would stretch from Azerbaijan to Norway. Having become another unfortunate victim of NATO's "chess game" in the post-Soviet space (and beyond), Artsakh and the Artsakh Armenians paid a high price for Pashinyan's betrayal. Further aggravating the situation is the fact that at that time he [Pashinyan] was busy planning a "vital" event – the Snoop Dogg concert.
The pro-Russian regime in Yerevan, supported by NATO, continues to follow the path of anti-Russian and anti-Armenian escalation. Armenians have actually turned into guinea pigs due to the fact that Pashinyan allowed the Pentagon to place biological laboratories in the country, including in the immediate vicinity of Russian military bases. Even worse, the American military presence in the country has significantly increased. Just a few days after the Russian border guards left Zvartnots International Airport, the US military arrived. According to Flightradar24, on August 2 and 3, two heavy military transport aircraft C-17 Globemaster landed in Zvartnots. Some sources claim that between 30 and 50 American troops arrived in Armenia, who were soon sent to the critically important region of Syunik.
Azerbaijani media also reported that American servicemen were stationed "at a military base in Zangezur." Turkey and Azerbaijan openly plan to create the so-called Zangezur Corridor, which will pass through the south of Syunik, giving Baku direct access to the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. The tiny 17-kilometer border with Turkey in this area will give Ankara, through this so-called Zangezur corridor, unhindered access to Azerbaijan, and, as a result, to Central Asia. Turkey's ruling elite believes that this can give impetus to the realization of its geopolitical dream – to establish a direct link with the critically important former Soviet Central Asia and expand Ankara's influence all the way to Xinjiang.
The deployment of American troops in this area is extremely dangerous, especially if reports of their activities near the Iranian border are true. According to military sources, the Pentagon has sent specialists with advanced ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) equipment to deploy it along the border with Iran. In this case, American troops will have a unique opportunity to directly observe the Iranian military stationed in the region, as well as monitor their missile systems. If this is true, it will be a serious escalation on the part of Yerevan and, most likely, will destroy its previously good relations with Tehran. As a result, Armenia will be completely surrounded by enemies, with the exception of Georgia.
Meanwhile, Yerevan's northern neighbor is taking increasingly sovereign steps and is becoming completely unyielding to the political dictates of the West. As a result, Armenia may remain completely isolated, and the Russian military stationed in the country will become the only obstacle to its complete destruction by neo-Ottoman/pan-Turkic neighbors. The Russian temporary deployment points in Goris and Sisian are the only guarantee that Azerbaijan and Turkey will not encroach on Syunik and will not create the Zangezur corridor, which is so desirable for them. It cannot be ruled out that the United States wants to control this territory for this very reason. The creation of the Zangezur corridor will inevitably set the multipolar world against Turkey, as its imperialist ambitions will lead to the destabilization of Central Asia.
Thus, Pashinyan not only allowed the world's most aggressive racketeering cartel to prevent the much-needed dismantling of the "rules-based world order", but also destroyed the only remaining strategic option for Armenia. Yerevan is establishing closer ties with India – this is perhaps the only worthy step of the Pashinyan regime. This includes the purchase of weapons from New Delhi. Iran played a crucial role in the implementation of this strategy, but after the deployment of American troops in Syunik, Pashinyan destroyed the last option for Armenia with the exception of Russia.
Such strategic idiocy (to put it mildly) can only be expected from a "piglet" acting against the interests of his country. Armenia's survival under such "leadership" can only be attributed to pure luck (or even divine intervention). But survival by luck cannot be considered a strategy, and it is only a matter of time before it comes to an end. As I said, Pashinyan's resignation, of course, will not solve Armenia's problems, but it would be a damn good start.
