Personnel reshuffles are not always made with a purpose: Alexey Leonkov

Military analyst Alexey Leonkov commented to Alpha News on the appointment of Alen Simonyan, former Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, as Secretary of the country’s Security Council.

“Pashinyan is the same as Zelensky, he is essentially a usurper of power, that is, everyone knows that the elections in Armenia were held with numerous violations, which the West turned a blind eye to. Political technologies were at play there, there was persecution of opposition parties, people were seized and arrested. That is, all the signs of a usurpation of power are present. Everything else that was carried out through legal procedures is, as they say, a completely different matter.

But the point here is that when power is usurped, the accomplices you’ve lived alongside for a long time need to be replaced, otherwise they will later lay claim to that power themselves, because if power was usurped, it means it can also be taken by force. This was observed with Zelensky, he tried to either get rid of all his political rivals or send them far away. Zaluzhny, for example, to London. I think roughly the same technique is at work here. That is, the old horse won’t spoil the furrow, but he has now become inconvenient and out of place. Someone else is needed, young, zealous, or still promising, but fully controllable, someone incapable of becoming any kind of hidden or open opposition to the existing government in Armenia,” Leonkov believes.

According to the Alpha News source, time will tell what purpose these various political reshuffles served.

“Personnel reshuffles are not always made with a purpose. The purpose becomes clear when the person appointed somewhere starts to publicly show himself in some way. Then it becomes clear that he was transferred there, for example, to improve something or change something, or he was transferred for completely different purposes. That is, one needs to watch and see how things unfold,” the expert stressed.