Our country is facing a serious threat of a large-scale attack by Azerbaijan and Turkey and losing statehood. NO foreign state and no international organization can stop that process. The statements supporting us from the West have a purely moral meaning. When official Russian propaganda says, “We do not abandon our own,” and with that slogan it justifies the attack on Ukraine, these are also empty words. The Russians living in Donbas are not unique to that country, otherwise its soldiers would not have destroyed the cities and villages of that territory. Naturally, we Armenians are not unique either.
So, in the event of an impending attack, we should not expect help from anyone. Everyone is discussing who is to blame for this state of affairs. But the following question is more urgent: can we today, with our weapons and human potential, resist that attack? Not suffering from excessive optimism, I tend to give a positive answer to that question. And what does it take? First of all, I think our citizens should understand what awaits them in the event of a large-scale war.
In other words, people are obliged to realize that the danger is extremely real and will have disastrous consequences. According to my impression, a part of our citizens deeply hopes that when everything starts, they will find a way to escape from Armenia. But that, it seems to me, is also an illusion. There may not be such an opportunity, or it will be only for the very rich.
Now I am writing these lines and I assume that most of the readers do not believe me. Maybe they also think that I am spreading panic. In fact, inactivity, apathy, fatalism, and feelings of powerlessness are the same panic, just in a passionate form.
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Let me repeat: Armenia can resist. …If our citizens, and not only them, but the entire nation decides that we need to have a state. The events that followed in November 2020 show that there is no such decision yet.
Aram Abrahamyan
