Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is speaking every other day about attacking Armenia. Meanwhile, a variety of arguments are brought in favor of this thesis. For example, “Sevan is ours, Yerevan is ours, Zangezoor is ours” and other similar absurd. If any Armenian media quotes these words of the head of the neighboring country, does it mean a national treason. I think, no, because our readers and viewers need to know what kind of nonsense this person is filling the brain of its own people.
Customary nonsense is the fact that there is a panic in Armenia in connection with the purchase of new weapons by Azerbaijan. This is how Aliev tries to explain the ‘decrying’ that are sometimes raised in Armenia to the address of Russians. Let us put aside that we should not “gab” to the address of any nation, or a state: they have their own interests, we have ours. But naming the rebukes against Russians “panic”, I think, means putting the reality for desired. Every person having a secondary education knows that the United States had much more modern weapons than Vietnam, and the Soviet Union was exceeding Afghanistan in military weapons, but the superpowers in these two countries did not particularly reach success. Why? Because wars are not won with weapons, but with the motivation to fight. The people of the neighboring country do not have the motivation to attack us, and if the country’s leadership, however, make such a frantic step, it’s up to its sin.
And, generally, panic is not a good thing, it prevents to adequately assess the situation. In the inner political life, the opponents often write that “the regime is in a panic.” And, thus, for 20 years. I understand that it is a means to embolden its own team and its own electorate. But, I do not think that the panic is typical to any authorities of Armenia, in the past and now. The self-confidence reaching the arrogance that “nothing can stop us,” “who is that guy,” and so on, yes, it was and is. I would prefer that their hearts were not in panic but anxiety, and not for their own seats (it certainly is), but for the events taken place in Armenia and the region. But, God forbid a panic!
The sports commentators also like the word “panic”: “the opponent’s penalty area appeared in panic situation.” This characterization also seldom complies with the reality.
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ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
