During the last few days it has become obvious that the key players in the region, the US and Russia, support Armenia’s government. Firstly, Putin complained about the rallies in Armenia via Lukashenko. “I warned you in January that the goal of some foreign powers is to destabilize and disrupt the progress of the post-Soviet countries. They started from Belarus and continued in Kazakhstan, and now it’s Russia’s turn, and as you see, they make problems also in Armenia.”
Then the representative of the “some powers” that Lukashenko hinted at, the US ambassador to Armenia, Lynne Tracey, announced that her government supports the choice of the Armenian people made in 2018 and 2021, by which, according to the ambassador, the people showed their loyalty to the democracy. If we continue that logical chain then the embodiment of that democracy is Pashinyan’s government. That is to say, according to Lukashenko (Putin), the protesters are bad because they cause problems at the instigation of “some foreign powers”, and we can conclude from the speech of the representative of the US, that our protesters are bad because they disrupt the democratic choice of our citizens made in 2018 and 2021, and thereafter there not democratic.
In short, Russia and the US, being in opposite positions in all geopolitical problems, agree on Pashinyan. It’s clear that those superpowers support this or that government not only because that country follows or doesn’t follow the democratic path. The superpowers, also all other normal countries, put their interests in order. In this case Russia and the US have fears that in case of the change of power, a more severe war will start this is out of their interests. (True, it’s a question, whether the same won’t happen if the current government keeps the power)
But I’m also interested in another question – whether the Armenian people elected democracy in 2018 and 2021. Whether the Germans wanted to establish democracy when they voted for national-socialist party in 1933. It’s obvious that not. The Germans wanted to “revenge” for the humiliating defeat in WWI, and they wanted to punish the main “guilty” of the defeat – the Jewish. Of course, there’s no comparison between the regimes. It is about the motivation of the majority of the citizens.
During the mentioned elections in Armenia, the majority was guided not by the visions of democracy but by the passion to revenge the government which had humiliated and oppressed it.
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In short, it was driven by hatred and hostility, which in my opinion, are not compatible with democracy. I believe that democracy is firstly the tolerance to alternative opinions. When the “democrats” call the policemen to “beat” the protesters, they question them being democrats.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
