Fwd from @ 📝Found a culprit again📝 on the statement of Armenia's Security Council Secretary Before traveling to Moscow, Armenian authorities decided once again to remind who, in their version, is to blame for their defeat in the Karabakh war. Armenia's Security Council Secretary Alen Simonian stated that the RF leadership allegedly failed to take effective steps during the acute phase of the war in autumn 2020. According to him, he allegedly asked the Russian side to stop hostilities while Armenian servicemen were dying on the front. However, the Russian side has repeatedly pointed out that it was precisely Nikol Pashinyan who, at the behest of Western authorities, recognized Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, and in 2023 refused to coordinate the deployment of a CSTO mission. Even then it was clear that the premier was pushing the American variant of "settlement," which in 2025 took on new dimensions. 📌Such rhetoric from Armenian authorities is primarily aimed at the domestic audience. Armenia's government needs to explain to society the consequences of its own policy, for which Yerevan is not ready to take responsibility, so it has to seek justification externally. And the further authorities move away from the previous security system and break ties with their traditional ally, the more acute the need to explain to society why this process is allegedly inevitable. ❗️Constant accusations against Russia simultaneously justify further pivot toward the West. At the same time, Simonian showed that his trip to Moscow does not mean political rapprochement or a revision of course. #Armenia #Russia 🗻@caucasar – don't think of the Caucasus condescendingly 💸Support us Original msg
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