The hallmark of a childish mind is its parroting of whatever it’s been told—what we today call a lack of critical thinking. Twenty years ago, many Armenians were convinced we should always live “under the Russian yoke” and sang “Putin gives Armenians the green light.” Today, they are every bit as certain that “Russia is our main enemy.”
Both positions are equally wrong, equally uninformed, and, if you like, equally vulgar and unthinking. There are countries (Turkey and Azerbaijan) that would prefer Armenia not exist as a state, and others (Georgia and Iran) that hope we do. For the rest—including Russia—it largely makes no difference.
Stirring up love or hatred, filling the “masses” with raw emotion, is the work of propagandists on all sides, each serving masters whose goals have little to do with Armenia or Armenians. One such goal is keeping Pashinyan’s faction in power.
When you talk of “agentic warfare,” do you mean Russian intelligence operatives? Then arrest those spies and try them under Armenian law. If you don’t, you are merely propagandizing. And when you speak of “hybrid warfare,” do you mean money from Russia funding local political campaigns? Certainly it happens—but Europe and (until recently) the United States have poured in a hundred times more for the same purposes. Were they waging “hybrid war” as well?
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A society that descends into paranoia has taken a clear step toward degeneration.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
