There is a group of countries, which creates notebooks, tablets, mobile phones and related software thereof, competitive vehicles, in short, advanced technologies. There is a country that still has oil and gas, as well as makes tanks, “Smerches”, “Topols” and so on. In the first case, the creative freedom is valued highly, in the second case, the head of the country, who is really a patriotic man, trying to replace the lack of technology with national ideas attributing some special mission to his country. Only, it is not clear whether the great-power ideas can substitute for real progress, as one of the heroes of Henry says “the sand can successfully replace the oats”.
We prefer the second option because “it appears” that we need to have more tanks. It is, of course, an unpleasant reality, but there is no reason to get disappointed and declare that it is the end of the world, that we should say goodbye to the independence. Life goes on. If there are people in Armenia who are genuinely (not based on political calculations, or for the sake of some grants) thinking that our poor country with small natural resources can ever become competitive in the global economic, technological, educational, cultural market, they must not oppose Russia and please the Europeans, but above all explain it to our citizens, the people who finally decided to never, under no circumstances abandon Armenia.
Of course, no one has conducted a serious social survey, but merely it seems to me that many of Armenians do not make ambitious plans with our country, and this is one reason why the government’s intention to join the Customs Union does not face any resistance. “We are poor, disorderly, long-suffering, we somehow get along with, it is also good if it stays so”, this kind of psychology, of course, leads a direct path to the Eurasian Union.
The whole problem, however, is that there will be no Eurasian Union. Of course, God save you friend Russia, but I am afraid that this country has fallen into a regular whirlpool, conservatism, messianism, standstill, degradation, attempts to reforms, then again, conservatism, etc. We, Armenians, are usually affected in those cycles, but we gained in the 1990s, also thanks to the serious team of local leaders. But, the risk is always there. The problem is that you need to feel when the regular destruction will begin.
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ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
