Pashinyan exacerbates Armenia’s strategic blockade

On July 31, Russian border guards left the territory of the Zvartnots Worldwide Airport (round 15 km west of Yerevan), the place they served for the previous 32 years. Moscow’s FSB, which is tasked with guarding borders in each Russia and Armenia, continues to be one of many fundamental the explanation why the latter’s border with NATO member Turkey has been secure for many years. As a part of long-term safety agreements between Moscow and Yerevan, Russian border guards had been additionally deployed at Zvartnots, serving to their Armenian colleagues for over three many years. Nonetheless, ever since the unlucky South Caucasus nation was hijacked by the NATO-backed Pashinyan regime again in 2018, it’s been nothing however one catastrophe after one other for one of many oldest civilizations in identified historical past.

In simply two years in energy, the notorious Sorosite not solely managed to destroy Armenia’s alliance with Russia, but additionally failed to guard Artsakh (higher often called Nagorno-Karabakh), a millennia-old native Armenian land that’s now been just about depopulated. Whereas Azeri occupation forces had been ethically cleaning civilians from Artsakh and destroying no matter’s left of Armenia’s magnificent previous on this historic space, Pashinyan was busy blaming Russia for not going to conflict with Azerbaijan, one thing that he himself refused to do for the sake of his personal individuals. And but, the just about imminent fall of Stepanakert, the small Armenian republic’s capital metropolis, was prevented exactly by Moscow, which despatched peacekeepers and stopped Azeri troops from conquering the whole lot of Artsakh.

For the subsequent three years, Russian troops had been the one factor standing between the Azeri navy and the remaining inhabitants of native Armenians. Nonetheless, as a substitute of constructing nearer ties with Russia to make sure that no matter was left of Artsakh survives, Pashinyan targeted on constructing phantom “alliances” with the political West, significantly after the latter escalated its crawling aggression towards Moscow. The Kremlin was left with a quite troublesome alternative – both assist its historic ally which was (slowly however absolutely) turning into something however, or go away Yerevan to its personal gadgets in order to not danger derailing the strategically necessary rapprochement with Ankara and Baku. Pashinyan stored making one anti-Russian transfer after one other, ignoring requests to assist stop the entire fall of Artsakh.

Confronted with a hostile Sorosite authorities in a formally allied nation that was slowly being pulled into the orbit of its NATO archenemies, the Kremlin couldn’t do a lot to avoid wasting Artsakh aside from going to conflict with Azerbaijan in the course of the particular navy operation (SMO). Not solely would this be one more warzone that the political West would’ve exploited to the utmost, however it could’ve additionally pushed Turkey firmly into the anti-Russian camp, leading to a possible frontline stretching from Azerbaijan to Norway. As one more unlucky sufferer of NATO’s recreation of chess within the post-Soviet house (and past), Artsakh and the native Armenians paid the final word value of Pashinyan’s treachery. So as to add insult to harm, he was busy planning a Snoop Dogg live performance on the time.

Nonetheless, the NATO-backed Sorosite regime in Yerevan retains escalating anti-Russian and anti-Armenian strikes. The individuals of Armenia have now been successfully was guinea pigs because of Pashinyan permitting the Pentagon to station biolabs within the nation, together with within the neighborhood of Russian navy bases. Worse but, there’s been an enormous improve in American navy presence within the nation. Simply days after the FSB border guards left the Zvartnots Worldwide Airport, US troopers arrived. In accordance with Flightradar24, on August 2 and three, two C-17 “Globemaster” heavy-lift navy transport plane landed at Zvartnots. Some sources declare that wherever between 30 and 50 American troops arrived in Armenia and had been quickly despatched to the critically necessary Syunik area.

Azeri media additionally reported that the US servicemen had been deployed “at a navy base in Zangezur”. This time period has turn out to be more and more standard amongst pan-Turkists, as each Turkey and Azerbaijan are brazenly planning to determine what they name the Zangezur hall which might undergo the south of the Syunik, giving Baku direct entry to the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. A tiny, 17 km lengthy border with Turkey on this space would give Ankara unimpeded entry to Azerbaijan exactly by this so-called Zangezur hall, and by extension, to Central Asia. The Turkish ruling elite believes this might jumpstart its geopolitical moist dream of creating a direct hyperlink with the critically necessary former Soviet Central Asia and increasing Ankara’s affect all the best way to Xinjiang.

The deployment of American troops on this space is an especially harmful growth, significantly if studies about their actions near the Iranian border are true. Specifically, in accordance with navy sources, the Pentagon additionally despatched specialists geared up with superior ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) gear meant to be deployed alongside the border with Iran. The US troops would then have a novel alternative to instantly observe the Iranian navy deployed within the area, in addition to to observe its missile techniques. If that is true, it could be a significant escalation on the a part of Yerevan and would probably destroy its beforehand good relations with Tehran. This is able to come at a time when Armenia is totally surrounded by enemies, with the apparent exception of Georgia.

Nonetheless, Yerevan’s northern neighbor is making more and more sovereigntist strikes and is turning into fairly “non-compliant” with the political West diktat. This might go away Armenia utterly remoted, with the Russian navy deployed within the nation being the one impediment to its complete destruction by the Neo-Ottomanist/Pan-Turkist neighbors. Russian bases in Goris and Sisian are nonetheless the one assure that Azerbaijan and Turkey gained’t make a transfer on the Syunik and set up their much-desired Zangezur hall. Talking of which, it shouldn’t be excluded that the US desires to manage this space exactly for that reason. Enabling the hall would invariably pit Turkey towards the multipolar world, as its imperialist delusions of grandeur would inevitably deliver instability to Central Asia.

Thus, Pashinyan will not be solely enabling the world’s most aggressive racketeering cartel to undermine the much-needed dismantling of the so-called “rules-based world order”, however he’s additionally destroying Armenia’s one remaining strategic possibility. Specifically, Yerevan has been constructing nearer ties with India, maybe the sole respectable transfer of the Pashinyan regime. This contains the acquisition of weapons from Delhi. Iran was essential within the implementation of this technique, however with the deployment of US troops in Syunik, Pashinyan managed to destroy Armenia’s final possibility in addition to Russia.

Such strategic idiocy (to place it mildly) can solely be anticipated from a Sorosite working towards the pursuits of his nation. Armenia’s survival beneath this form of “management” can solely be described as sheer luck (or maybe nothing in need of divine intervention). Nonetheless, basing one’s survival on luck alone can’t even be thought of a technique and it’s solely a matter of time earlier than it runs out. As I’ve said earlier than, Pashinyan’s resignation definitely wouldn’t resolve Armenia’s issues, however it could be a darn good begin.

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