"And, the critics ask, for what?
What did turning our back against the Russian Bear bring us?
Did the West come to our aid when the Turks and Azerbaijanis attacked?"
- @SohrabAhmari
compactmag.com
What did turning our back against the Russian Bear bring us?
Did the West come to our aid when the Turks and Azerbaijanis attacked?"
- @SohrabAhmari
compactmag.com
The Russians, he said, can withstand isolation, but Armenians can’t, says Mnatsakanyan, the former foreign minister.
“This is how our ugly world works. Armenia is insufficiently democratic for you, because we are insufficiently anti-Russia? Is this your definition of democracy?”
“This is how our ugly world works. Armenia is insufficiently democratic for you, because we are insufficiently anti-Russia? Is this your definition of democracy?”
"To Washington neoconservatives, it didn’t matter that Armenia has a democratic political culture—“it’s a protest society,” as former Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told me. “Freedom is a fundamental, existential value for the people of this country.”"
"Nor did Armenia’s ancient Christian heritage sway right-wing foreign-policy professionals, just as the fate of Christians had counted for little when Washington weighed the merits of regime change in Syria and Iraq."
"What mattered, rather, was that Armenia hosts a Russian base, is a member of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization, or CSTO, and has friendly ties with Iran to its south. “We ended up on the wrong side of black and white,” as former Amb. Hovhannesyan told me."
"Armenia’s ties with Iran...go back to pre-Islamic times; moreover, 🇮🇷 was Armenia’s only trade partner during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War,when a Turkish blockade threatened starvation.
The US tolerate far worse,in terms of complicated friendships,from other isolated allies."
The US tolerate far worse,in terms of complicated friendships,from other isolated allies."
"The larger aim, from the 🇹🇷-🇦🇿 perspective,is the realisation of a “Greater Turan”—illustrated in the map the Armenian writers showed Gorbachev in 1988.
“The Turkic world is being reconsolidated,” said Hovhannesyan, “The only annoying exception is this strip of land...Armenia.”
“The Turkic world is being reconsolidated,” said Hovhannesyan, “The only annoying exception is this strip of land...Armenia.”
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