On August 5, 2019, when Nikol Pashinyan was shouting from Stepanakert’s Renaissance Square that “Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s it,” anyone who had dared to suggest or even imagine that, just seven years later, concern would be voiced from the floor of Armenia’s parliament about inadvertently harming Azerbaijan’s international standing—and that this concern would come from a representative of the political force led by Nikol Pashinyan—would have been considered utterly insane. No such madmen appeared in 2019. But in 2026, such a statement was indeed made…

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