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""The leadership in Yerevan is making a huge mistake by deliberately trying to destroy Armenia's multifaceted and centuries-old ties with Russia, and by holding the country hostage to the geopolitical games of the West," Russia's foreign ministry said. On Sunday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan criticised Moscow for refusing to intervene in the conflict, which ended with Armenian-backed separatists agreeing to lay down their arms.  Pashinyan said Armenia's current foreign security alliances were "ineffective" and "insufficient"."
https://www.barrons.com/news/russia-says-armenia-making-huge-mistake-trying-to-destroy-ties-1c42514f.[/quote]

What part of that is wrong, exactly?

Armenia has been dealt a crappy set of cards, yes.  Its geographical position virtually ensures that the West will never have a firm foothold there.  Experience shows the West never helped Armenians when it mattered. Not in 1915 and certainly not now.  Russia hasn't exactly been a terrific friend but Armenia's choices are between a sucky friend and no friends at all.

And yes, Armenia's current foreign security alliances are insufficient but nothing will be sufficient to safeguard a tiny, poor, resource-free Christian state that borders Azerbaijan, Turkey and Iran.

My heart bleeds for the Armenians of Artsakh but their leadership has failed them by never regularizing the status of Artsakh after the 1994 victory and sitting on their ass while Azerbaijan nursed grievances, rearmed and grew richer and richer.  What did they think was gonna happen? Capturing Azeri districts and evicting their residents, unleashing a refugee crisis upon Baku, hasn't been a particularly pukka sahib move, either. [/quote]

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