Pashinyan is Aliyev’s speechwriter

The creation of information noise has long been a specialty of “Nikol Pashinyan the journalist,” and it continues to be a tactic of “Nikol Pashinyan the politician.” While in the past, noise was created by articles, for example, about how the “gift” to mothers on April 7 was their sons’ bodies brought back in coffins from Artsakh, today “Nikol Pashinyan the politician,” who has the National Security Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor’s Office, and the Investigative Committee under his control, can create even more information noise—a reality currently confronting Armenian society.

Since early morning on June 25, Armenian media has been dominated by the criminal case against Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan. By afternoon, the leader of the Holy Struggle movement had been formally charged with terrorism and organizing mass unrest.

Let’s put aside the fact that Pashinyan is trying to divert public attention from the case involving philanthropist Samvel Karapetyan (though that effort is unlikely to succeed, given the high-level political interests involved) and note that the news about Ilham Aliyev calling Armenia a “war criminal state” has been entirely eclipsed by the day’s media frenzy.

The day before, the Azerbaijani president accused Armenia of violating international law. According to him, Armenia is guilty of razing entire settlements, shelling Ganja, Mingachevir, Barda, and other cities located “quite far” from the conflict zone, spreading disinformation about the Second Artsakh War, and carrying out mass killings of Azerbaijanis. In conclusion, Ilham Aliyev called Armenia a “war criminal state.”

Back in 2023, after the ethnic cleansing in Artsakh, it was necessary to say that Azerbaijan’s sham trials against the former military and political leadership of Artsakh, whom Pashinyan surrendered alongside the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and 120,000 Artsakh residents, were primarily intended to extract testimonies—or at least create the necessary information background, as if the testimony had been obtained—that the formation of Artsakh’s statehood was based on political will and comprehensive support from Yerevan. The Aliyev regime needs evidence of Yerevan’s direct involvement in ensuring the combat readiness of the Artsakh Defense Army, which will later be presented as “Armenia’s sponsorship of terrorism and war crimes on Azerbaijan’s sovereign territory.” By stating that “Armenia is a war criminal state,” Aliyev has opened a new chapter of demands against the Republic of Armenia. This new chapter was written by Nikol Pashinyan, who surrendered Artsakh and allowed Ilham Aliyev to indulge in his fantasies.

Aliyev is well aware that without Yerevan’s military, political, and economic assistance, Artsakh would not have been able to exist and effectively combat Azerbaijani aggression since 1994. Therefore, Baku’s final demand—supposedly to “prevent another war”—is for Pashinyan to sign a document similar to the one Samvel Shahramanyan signed on September 28, which would dismantle the state.

By handing over Artsakh along with its political leadership, Nikol Pashinyan eliminated potential rivals in the domestic political struggle, but at the same time handed Baku a powerful weapon. One that Ilham Aliyev is actively using against Armenia today.

Think about it…