Exactly four years ago on this day, the life of Armenians changed. All at once from winners we turned to beggars, homeless and emigrants. Moreover, the Armenian agenda ceased to exist, everyone began to view us as an ordinary mourner who turned into an inanimate object representing nothing of himself, while Yerablur tripled in size.
There have been wars in the history of mankind since time immemorial; even in primitive communal society, people fought for their existence—be it a matter of territory, food or simply a fight for sympathy. It is already a reality, and the 44-day war will forever remain in the Armenian calendar as a page of humiliation and, most importantly, betrayal, when the army was fighting and the government was not. Moreover, apart from the fact that it did not fight, he spread dosed lies and disinformation to people with information terror.
The bitter reality is that even if the Armenian army were invincible in the 44-day war, it was impossible to defeat Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey and jihadist groups, because the actual three million-strong Armenia/Artsakh was fighting 10 million-strong Azerbaijan and its staunch supporter, 80 million-strong Turkey. In this war, the Armenian side lost because the forces were unequal. Azerbaijan, with the help of Turkey, mercenary terrorists and Israeli drones, managed to gain an advantage from the very first days of the attack and kept it until the document of Nov. 9 was signed under the mediation of Russia.
In fact, the war revealed the sterility of Armenia’s state agencies and political thought, and also showed what happens to a country when it is left to its own devices and where pathos and empty patriotism prevails. It is clear that it is no longer possible to live as if “nothing has happened”. What was before September 2020 will never be again. It is not possible to return to everyday life; it is not possible to continue with old ideas and old agendas.
We can confidently say that the territorial gains of Armenia in the first Artsakh war of 1991-1994 were lost within 44 days. Let’s make a comparison here: for example, Kurdish irregular forces in Afrin resisted the attack of the Turkish army supported by the same Islamist mercenaries for 64 days and suffered fewer casualties, while the regular Armenian army resisted the combined forces of Azerbaijani-Turkish mercenaries for 44 days.
During these years, Pashinyan did what should be presented in the history and political science textbooks of the future as factual proof of the destruction of the state—what the head of state should not do with the country whose security is number one. He does everything that is against statehood, because thus a state turns into a mere geographical area. Today, Pashinyan promises everyone “future”, and then “peace”: the master of manipulation and “trickery”, who has built his political activity entirely on lies and fakes, achieved some success with various compromises, today promises a future for the nation, but in fact, destroys the state.
Amid the reality of the war and the irreparable losses suffered by Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan lives today in the “real Armenia” he has created, which, in his words, “includes an area of 29,743 square kilometers”. This is exactly the Pashinyan state and its imagined future, which is actually not in mist, but in darkness—without a future and amorphous. Otherwise, it is hard to imagine how, after so many catastrophes, you can smile at the face of the head of a state when he wants to exterminate you. The indicator of what has been said is Pashinyan and Erdogan’s latest photo, showing what actually happened before the war, during the war and what situation we are in today.
Basically, by visiting the Turkish House in New York, Pashinyan showed that he doesn’t care about Armenianness, and on the part of Erdogan, this was an orgy of humiliation to show that he is the “moderator of the region”. Pashinyan, in his turn, reconfirmed with a smile that he is not against it and the “patron” may not doubt that. The leader who does not heed the agony of his own people will smile at the age-old enemy, give him a gentle nod, and he will do it on the day when Artsakh was depopulated exactly one year ago by the Commando squads sent to Azerbaijan from the same Turkey.
And in the end, no matter how hard Pashinyan tries to establish guilty parties or find various reasons to avoid the topic, it is a fact that the primary responsibility for what happened rests with him, and when he said, “I am responsible, but am I guilty?”, the answer is he is the only guilty party and the number one responsible for what happened—to put it mildly, he is not honest in his assessments. It goes without saying that Nikol Pashinyan is responsible, and sooner or later the time will come to gather stones.
P.S. By the way, being in New York on Sept. 27 is the greatest gift for Pashinyan, because it completely frees him from the greatest burden of going to Yerablur; instead he will just smile silently from afar and shake hands.
Armen Hovasapyan
