Before the 44-day Artsakh war, there was an opinion in Armenia that Russia was loyal and fair in the relationship between CSTO and EAEU member Armenia and non-member Azerbaijan. Still, during that war and after that opinion was not confirmed, as Russia was conducting more pro-Azerbaijani and pro-Turkish policy. Immediately after that war, Russian peacekeeping forces were deployed in Artsakh to prevent further conflicts between the two countries.
Still, the subsequent actions of these Russian forces indicate that they are not very fair in implementing their functions and show some bias in favor of Azerbaijan. Only the fact that even after the war, until recently, Azerbaijan regularly attacked under their noses and occupied quite a lot of territory from Armenia and Artsakh, causing hundreds of new victims, missing and wounded, as well as the last super disgrace lasting 40 or more days, as a result of which under the guise of various bluffs, they closed the only road connecting Armenia to Artsakh, the Lachin Corridor, which can create an unspeakable, unimaginable situation for the people of Artsakh, and the Russian peacekeepers have become inactive and do not even try to open the corridor, this indicates that all this was done in some way in coordination with the Russian forces; otherwise, Azerbaijan would not dare to fire even one shot, let alone block the only way to life in Artsakh.
Azerbaijan and Turkey seemed to be few, and the Russian side was misleading us, on the other hand, tacitly pouring water into the enemy’s mill. It would be different if those forces were not stationed and did not make us hope that they came to maintain peace; in that case, at least we would have prepared according to the situation and in case of need, we would have tried to give an appropriate counterattack. In such a case, they are doing great harm. They preach false peace to us and help the enemy from below, from which we once again find ourselves in a big surprise. In other words, the Russians are doing us a double blow with this. The Russians will likely use this method as a model for us in future demarcation and delimitation issues, and we will again lose new territories.
Russia calls the parties for peace so that further problems can be resolved without a fight. Still, their steps indicate that they are not openly helping the enemy, thinking we will not even understand it. We have already lost a lot of things thanks to their “just” intervention up to this moment, so even in the case of such a continuation in these works; we will have new losses thanks to them because they will probably protect the interests of Azerbaijan at that time as well. As a result, we have the fact that the West, Europe, and Russia are not only doing everything to preserve the territorial integrity of Soviet-era Azerbaijan but are helping in every possible way.
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Azerbaijan and Turkey, not only to keep the territories occupied by sovereign Armenia until now but also to force Armenia under the name of false peace /it can also be called giving advice/ so that Armenia finally opens the corridor that our enemies so dreamed of, after which, naturally, as in the case of Artsakh, they promised and they did everything to hand over the territories of Artsakh to the enemy.
They will try to do the same thing once again in the case of Armenia because the history of thousands of years proves that if you trust the Turk and give him a little space, he will very quickly initially, first try to occupy the territories in the vicinity of his location, and then slowly also all their continuation in directions. Here is what we expect soon.
Of course, Russia, as always, will try to deny it, but it will do the exact opposite, and the USA and Europe, according to their typical diplomacy, will show a blunt approach and say: look, we are doing everything, but what do the Russians want and how?; that is their business.
Eventually, I don’t understand one thing, how many times will we be fooled or tricked so that we finally understand that if we really want to be saved, to save our motherland, we should put our hopes only on ourselves and, stopping at nothing, try to do it…
Anania MAGHAKYAN
corresponding member of the RA Engineering Academy
“Aravot” daily newspaper, 25.01.2023
