Russian leadership is being reproached for uncertainly of its policies in the Caucasus and for the crisis in South Ossetia, while Armenian political analysts hanging around in the Kremlin can never be reproached for lack of a clearly-outlined goal: to defend Russian presence in Georgia until the last Russian is gone. There is a reason why their nationality is mentioned. For over a decade these characters have been all over the Russian media, they’ve been calling themselves Russian citizens and political analysts, and they’ve been duping the Russian ordinary citizens and convincing them that Armenian problems must become all-Russian problems.
One the one hand, you can understand them. If you take a look at the problems that Armenia is facing, transportation blockade being the main problem, which is caused by the aggression against Azerbaijan, then the ideal solution would be integration of Georgia into Russia. In this case, when there is border between Russia and Armenia, many problems would have been solved and three regional allies would have been happy: Iran, Armenia and Russia, and then ally of the West, Azerbaijan, would have been isolated. But this kind of a solution is an Armenian fairytale, so let’s rather take a look at the reality. The reality is that Georgia has never shown any hostility towards Armenia and has never blocked any shipments from Russia, and Georgia was neutral during the Armenian-Azeri war. This is why it’s hard to explain where such base ingratitude towards Georgia, the country that has the same [Christian] belief systems that Armenia does, comes from.
The crisis around South Ossetia has confirmed the imperial essence not only among the Russian authorities and Russian patriots, but also among the so-called liberal intelligentsia, sputtering at Georgia with their imperial spittle, as if Tskhinvali, South Ossetia is the last frontier of the superpower located somewhere on the approaches to Moscow, and not in a foreign country. But you can spot Armenian political analysts taking turns and standing out even in the middle of all of this. These Moscow’s lickspittles have been disparaging Georgia and its leaders and have been openly calling Russians to take any measures in order not to lose ‘geopolitical positions’ in a dusty little town on the other side of the Caucasus Mountain Range.
Speech given by Russian political analyst Kurginian on the air of the Echo of Moscow (‘Ekho Moskvy’) is the example of vileness, slyness, cynicism and instigation. However, this slyness and cynicism are unable to make up for the lack of common sense: the longstanding disease of Armenian politicians. The early ‘90s-type ‘victory’ in the war with Azerbaijan turned the brains of Armenian ‘geopolitical’ players, just like victory over Ethiopia once turned Mussolini’s head, when he even gave himself a title of ‘Conqueror of Ethiopia’.
If you take a look at the results of the Armenian scam in Karabagh, you can say that Armenian people were the ones who lost. Today no one has any doubts that Azerbaijan has the rights to claim the territory of Karabagh. And the only outcome of the job done by Armenian politicians was that steadily-developing economy of Azerbaijan is now free from Armenian presence. Armenia is now cut off from natural resources or any large-scale projects. If it were not for the Karabagh war, then the Armenians living in Azerbaijan would not have become refugees, but many of them would have possibly taken top positions in Azerbaijani oil industry, like it was in the early 20th century, due to their entrepreneurial skills.
Modern Armenian politicians, including the ones with Russian citizenship, are getting in the same trap by calling on Russia’s imperial instincts against its historical neighbors. They are provoking Russia to start confrontation with Georgia, even though none of them is saying how can the united and democratic Georgian State could pose a threat to Armenia or be in Armenia’s way, once it gets free from Russian military imperial presence. If through Russia’s fault the situation in Georgia gets more aggravated, the situation in Armenia will not change for the better at all. Although, it is unlikely to have any effect on Moscow’s builders of ‘Great Armenia’.
Salman Daudov,
Kavkaz-Center
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