“There are several international forces, even individual countries, which can attack Azerbaijan if they wish,” said Serzh Sargsyan, the third president of RA, in a briefing with journalists on March 7. In response to Aravot.am’s question, you were the Minister of Defense for many years. During your presidency, it was always announced that our army was the most capable in the region.
After the 44th day war, the current government is spreading the thesis that we didn’t have an army, the army was a source of corruption for the previous government, and the last masterpiece was Sasun Mikayelyan’s statement in Yerablur; after all, did we have an army, was it combative or not? “We had an army, and our army proved it. The rulers of this country often try to compare something to a car.
Our army was not a Mercedes, that’s for sure, and it couldn’t be because the same Mercedes has a history of decades, but our army is worth comparing with a ”solid” standard car that performed its duties. They talk about that car was not good, it wasn’t this, it wasn’t that, and they forget that the car was driven not only by a person without a driver’s license, but by someone who didn’t know how to drive at all, and that car was inevitably going to fall into the ravine. And fell into the valley.
But instead of understanding that they need to know how to drive, they say again: we didn’t have an army, we didn’t have this, and we didn’t have that. All the numbers they publish about money are a myth, a fairy tale because even an ordinary citizen knows very well what $1 means, $100 in 23, and what that dollar was worth in 94, 2004, 2014. No one is talking about the fact that after 2018 they did not receive any military-technical support. I don’t want to give numbers to avoid speculation, but it was huge.
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The second circumstance is that our army had enough munitions and military equipment to not end the war like this. Our most powerful weapons were not used, they were not used for reasons incomprehensible to me, and if these weapons had been used in time, the situation would have been entirely different. Then they say that there was no ammunition, there were no weapons.
If you follow the Russian-Ukrainian military operations, you see that the Russian side is using all the weapons that we have. The gun also needs a user. If you don’t use it, even if we put an atomic bomb, you won’t use it. Not only in terms of ammunition but also in terms of personnel, we used 50% in the 44-day war, so why didn’t they use that 50%?-during other interviews.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
