The most common trick of demagoguery is to put forward false alternatives and make propaganda and engage in blackmail based on it. You’re not from Nikol’s supporters, so you’re from Kocharian’s? Or vice versa, if you don’t think that Kocharyan will save Armenia, you support the current government. “And who will save,” the question arises in the same logic, “whom do you see as a savior?” I don’t see anyone. At this stage, political figures have nothing profound to say or do. It will save the program, the strategy which the intellectual circles should develop, and towards them, fanatics sitting in different political trenches, to put it mildly, do not have warm feelings.
The same in international relations. Today, aggressive fanatics in opposing camps have focused on these very topics. If you remind that Turkey and Azerbaijan are conducting a joint policy on our issue, and Aliyev openly announces his intention to return to “West Azerbaijan,” then you are a “Russian” and “GRU agent.”
Conversely, if you predict that Russia will leave this region sooner or later, then you want Armenia to become a province of Turkey. In this case, the possibility of neutral analysis is also rejected, and a compulsion is formed to participate in the intrigues of current politics. Either black or white is the alternative proposed by demagoguery, propagated by fanatics of different camps.
Meanwhile, regarding this (Russia or Turkey) false alternative, we can be guided by logic and successful experience. In the first half of the 1990s, Armenia was able to ensure the relative neutrality of Turkey and have warm relations with Russia and the West.
Read also
Nothing is impossible. It’s just that those who analyze and interpret the situation should be guided by something other than demagogy and propaganda, leaving it to political circles. It may not appeal to the “broad masses” and fan groups. But a thinking person should know that many people will not like his words.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
