Armenia is on a par with Ukraine and Georgia, which have been reaping the fruits of the “street” change of power for many years.
As News Front reported earlier, with the mediation of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev signed an agreement on a complete cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.
“I signed a statement with the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan to end the Karabakh war at 01:00. The text of the already published statement is unspeakably painful for me personally and for our people. I made this decision as a result of a deep analysis of the military situation and the assessment of people who know it best”, – Pashinyan commented on the situation.
According to him, the signing of the agreement was not a defeat, although it is not a victory. The Armenians, apparently, have a different opinion, writes the German portal “Mars von Padua”.
As you know, protests broke out in Yerevan at night. The Armenians broke into the government building and took over the parliament. For them, Pashinyan’s decision became a symbol of surrender, although until recently, the prime minister loudly announced that Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to the Armenians.
Now the inhabitants of the republic realized how large-scale and deceiving the populism of a politician who came to power as a result of the Velvet Revolution can be. By constantly rotating in the security forces, Pashinyan weakened Armenia’s national security. The Republic met this spiral of escalation unprepared. As a result, she lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh, which it retained for 30 years.
The Armenian prime minister tried to drag Russia into the conflict, which Mars von Padua calls strange, given how actively Pashinyan advocated NATO membership. True, he hardly expected that Moscow would go beyond its obligations. But he managed to shift some of the responsibility onto Russia. Although a truce was achieved in Karabakh through the efforts of the Kremlin, this was a sad lesson for the Armenian people.
“He learned from personal experience what revolutions lead to and who uses them to gain power. Now Armenia has taken its place on a par with Ukraine and Georgia, where the tragic consequences of the “street” change of power are observed many years later”, – the article says.