Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9709249
During a Q&A at the World Youth Festival in Sirius, in Russia’s Krasnodar region, Margarita Simonyan criticized Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. He has suspended Yerevan’s participation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which is considered Russia’s equivalent to NATO.
Simonyan is the editor-in-chief of the Kremlin mouthpiece RT. As an ally of Vladimir Putin and a regular guest on state television, she pushes the Russian leader’s rhetoric about his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“Armenia’s youth must understand that Pashinyan is a traitor to the Armenian people and is leading Armenia to complete destruction if he remains in power,” said Simonyan on Monday, to applause from the audience.
Simonyan, who is of Armenian descent and has described herself as both Russian and Armenian, said that, if voters continued to support Pashinyan, “there will be no Armenia in five years—just as there is no longer any Karabakh in the form in which the Armenians needed it,” Simonyan said. “Armenia will not exist at all, you will see.”
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Tell me that you are planning to invade and conquer Armenia without telling me that you are planning to invade and conquer Armenia
Honestly, I think there’s an outside chance that this could also be an attempt to woo Erdogan, because not only does that guy LOVE denying that the Armenian genocide was a thing, but he also wants to create a resurgent Ottoman Empire, and that very much includes snarfing up territory of his neighbors.
More directly: Putin and Erdogan are already buddies. The plan might be to grant Erdogan a portion of the conquered land.
Edit: this could also just be as simple as a revenge ploy for Armenia leaving CSTO (Russia’s wish.com NATO). Which was due to the fact that Russia refused to assist Armenia when they invoked the mutual defense clause. Which is a darkly hilarious circular argument, to be quite honest.
I think this is more about signaling to Azerbaijan that Russia will support them military in a campaign against Armenia. Don’t get me wrong, Turkey loves denying the Armenian Genocide, but Azerbaijan and Armenia have been in hot wars as recent as last year and Azerbaijan has very close ties to Russia.
I like Russia’s blame on the “west” for being imperialistic. Putin and cronies are just like little jealous kids with too much money and power. Whatever they are against is a projection of their own will. The fact that the Russian racing automobile Federation (RAF) is still using .su as top level domain tells you everything what imperialistic Russia wants to achieve. That includes making Armenia a nice province of Russia again.
Imagine Germany keeping the swastika flag because of nostalgic reasons…
@resetbypeer @0x815
Doom to the barbarians.
Russia abadoning Armenia was really a bad call. Georgia wants to be an EU member badly and Armenia also has a somewhat democratic system. The only thing missing is Azerbijan. That would open up Central Asia to the West. With Russia threatening Kazkhastan this could really put Russia in a bad geopolitical position.
Nightmare scenario for Russia. The US and EU would love to run a pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey through Armenia
Weren’t they in your defense pact? You sort of let Azerbaijan bite a few pieces off of them recently
Bit of a shit defence pact really.
Can’t imagine why NATO membership became popular.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan has said Armenia’s spat with Russia over a Moscow-led security bloc could see the South Caucasus country no longer exist within half-a-decade.
The editor-in-chief of the Kremlin mouthpiece RT is an ally of Vladimir Putin and a regular guest on state television where she pushes the Russian leader’s rhetoric about his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
During a Q&A at the World Youth Festival in Sirius, in Russia’s Krasnodar region, Simonyan criticized Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Last month, Pashninyan said that the CSTO had failed Armenia, freezing its participation in the bloc because Russia could no longer be relied upon as a reliable defense partner.
Olesya Vartanyan, the International Crisis Group’s (ICG) senior analyst for the South Caucasus region, told Newsweek last month that Yerevan freezing CSTO participation has been an issue for the last couple of years.
While the video, which as of Tuesday had received more than 336,000 views, did not show Simonyan saying that Russia would invade the country, Armenia’s economic and military reliance on Moscow could make it vulnerable.
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