
Baku, 3 November 2020 – Newtimes.az
Pashinyan turned out to be not only a weak journalist and an ordinary politician, devoid of an analytical mindset. The head of the Armenian government, to whom fate once smiled at the crossroads of the clash of two modern civilisations, neglects not so much political experience as the deep mind of one of the major politicians of modern Armenia. We are talking about the alternative leader of Armenia, to whom all political forces of the country, without exception, turned to in the moments of danger hanging over the country. Of course, we are talking about the hermit of Matenadaran - Levon Ter-Petrosyan. But more on that later.
Something does
not add up in the politics of today's Yerevan. Crushing defeats on the
battlefield, deafening failures in diplomatic battles. Finally, the guardian of
Armenia, Russia, shows an absolute indifference, inexplicable even with a
flexible mind, to the fate of its historical outpost in the extreme south of
the grey-haired Caucasus. So something went wrong. Any rational government
would feel a misunderstanding, if not surprise, after today's public statement
by the Russian Foreign Ministry. Smolenskaya Square answered Pashinyan instead
of the Kremlin. Although the Armenian prime minister addressed Putin, not the
self-isolated Lavrov, who left the diplomatic field with suspicion of
coronavirus. Pashinyan never received a letter from Putin. The Kremlin
responded to the Armenian PM through the mouth of its Foreign Ministry.
How so? After
all, Putin would not have disregarded the letter of the let's say Nicaraguan
President Daniel Ortega. But it seems that Pashinyan with his Soros government
in the eyes of the Kremlin turned out to be a much less significant partner
than the president of Nicaragua. Or Maduro. And even Morales. To them, Putin
showed great favour, sensitivity, attention and understanding.
And Lavrov's
Foreign Ministry, with its annoying dry office style, rapped out a duty text to
Pashinyan about Russia's intention to fulfil its allied obligations towards
Armenia only in the event of Azerbaijan's aggression. Hinting at the same time
that the Azerbaijani Army can cross the borders of Armenia. And as you know,
official Baku sets itself completely different goals: the liberation of its own
occupied territories. And it does not intend to invade Armenia. Pashinyan,
Putin and, of course, Lavrov are well aware of this.
Pashinyan,
like any sane politician, was obliged to ask himself: what did go wrong? Why
did the great Armenia of Tigran the Conqueror turn out to be less significant
than the country of the forgotten Sandinistas? And why did the 200-year-old
historical ally begin to openly neglect the interests of the tried-and-true
satellite, while expressing special feelings for the Azerbaijani people, who
had been trampled upon in their rights? You must admit that in Yerevan natural
questions were to be asked... to the previously known answers. Unless, of
course, ignore the well-known answers.
Patriarch of
Armenian politics Levon Ter-Petrosyan hurried to the Armenian authorities and
people with these questions, just like twenty years ago. The outstanding
president of Armenia, who once offered his people, Azerbaijan and the whole
world a just peace for Karabakh, wise by life experience and squeezed in the
grip of big politics, turned to Pashinyan in a fatherly way: Nikol!
Ter-Petrosyan, the same old activist of the 'Karabakh' committee, following
Vazgen Manukyan, tried to tear the veil from the eyes of the homegrown prime minister
who was lost in the Champs Elysees: 'Do you not understand what Putin said? If
you do not understand this, then woe to us!'
Ter-Petrosyan
acted more sincerely with Pashinyan, if only because, unlike Kocharyan, he did
not 'catch' the coronavirus. And he continued an honest dialogue with the
authorities and people.
Not only in
Armenia, but also in Azerbaijan, Putin was well heard, who, according to
Ter-Petrosyan, openly said that he was not going to solve the Karabakh problem
instead of Armenia. And Azerbaijan, as Ter-Petrosyan predicted 22 years ago, is
very close to solving the problem.
Ter-Petrosyan
tried to wake up and bring to his senses the former editor of 'Haykakan
Zhamanakh,' who once spoke at rallies in Yerevan back in 2008 with incendiary
speeches in support of the president, who once declared that Armenia won not a
war, but just an absurd battle... And long before Nikol, who was lost in his
dreams, divorced from reality, Ter-Petrosyan spoke of painful compromises in
favour of Armenia. As about the only alternative and a reliable future of
vassal Armenia doomed by Stepanakert riffraff to the colourless years of
despondency and savagery. Ter-Petrosyan, unlike Pashinyan, did not threaten
Armenia with a banal alternative, but persuaded, recalling the immutability of
geopolitical evolution. Today it may be so, but tomorrow it may be different.
The historical dialectic has not yet been cancelled.
Ter-Petrosyan
is the tortured conscience of the Armenian people. Levon is Armenian through
the looking glass of Matenadaran. How quickly Nikol forgot his incendiary
speeches in support of the leader of the Revolution Square in the forgotten by
all 2008.
The
tongue-tied and poorly educated Nikol, born of Ter-Petrosyan's revolution - the
square of the 2000s a priori did not accept others - attacked the patriarch of
Armenian politics. Ter-Petrosyan urged Nikol to face the truth. Nichol threw a
stone at the truth. And he shattered Ter-Petrosyan's mirror. The stone in
Ter-Petrosyan's mirror flew out of the hands of one of Pashinyan's little
magpies, actor and journalist, and now vice-speaker Alen Simonyan.
'If
Ter-Petrosyan wants to know what Putin said, let him call the one who speaks to
Putin almost every day,' A. Simonyan said.
Whom did
Simonyan mean? Kocharyan? After all, Ter-Petrosyan already stepped over
himself, agreeing to a meeting with Kocharyan, who turned back the historical
development of Armenia, destroying the idea of the coexistence of two peoples.
Burying the chance given by Levon, and putting forward the fascist idea of
ethnic and even genetic incompatibility of peoples who have lived side by side
for centuries! For the first time after 22 years, Ter-Petrosyan, for the sake
of his people, stepped over himself, having met with the gravedigger of the
peace plan!
God knows, but
the paths of Armenian politics have become inscrutable. Simonyan allowed
himself to offend, if not insult, the patriarch of Armenian politics.
'Pashinyan's letter to Putin is written in modern Russian. As you can see, the
texts - the subject of the dispute - are not written in the Hittite or Scythian
languages. Therefore, the Armenian society does not need a specialist in dead languages
to understand them.'
Pashinyan
acted very badly and meanly in relation to his spiritual mentor. The mention of
dead languages is a stone thrown at Ter-Petrosyan, one of the leading experts
in the field of dead languages. A hint at political necrophilia. Ter-Petrosyan
was not hinted at, but was told openly that he was a politician from the past,
a dead man, so to speak, whose services the people's government did not need.
In addition, Pashinyan tried, in his usual plebeian manner, to shift all responsibility
for the current situation onto the politician who ruled Armenia a quarter of a
century ago.
'Better let
the first president of Armenia publish his vision of the settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh issue, his proposal for a way out of the current situation.
There is no need for mysterious hints,' the newly-minted Simonyan shouted after
the outgoing ex-president.
Well,
Ter-Petrosyan already outlined his vision of the Karabakh settlement in detail
in conceptual publications that caused tectonic processes in the entire region.
What a cowardly style of shifting historical responsibility onto a politician
from another era? Although the question is not only responsibility, but also in
a panic search for a way out of the situation. Pashinyan's mouthpiece said
this: 'So far we have received one offer - to go to Moscow. The prime minister
approved this proposal, which has not been implemented to this day.'
Pashinyan understands very well that he is not expected in Moscow. And no one wants to talk to him. Pashinyan realises that the allegedly sick Kocharyan was also advised to postpone his trip to Moscow until better times. Only Ter-Petrosyan remained. But he acted more honest and sincere than Kocharyan, trying to revive the current Armenian government and personally Pashinyan himself, who still denies the reality. No one is expected in Moscow. Moscow has gained patience to hear the long-awaited news of the resignation of the Pashinyan government!
Eynulla Fatullayev
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