Did Davutoglu show Pashinyan a “way out”?

In Europe and Ukraine, the events of February 12 are still being digested. What happened was that the presidents of Russia and the United States not only called each other, as they did after Donald Trump was elected president (as he repeatedly hinted at), but also issued official releases after the phone call.

It became known from the statements of the Kremlin and the White House that Trump welcomed efforts to end hostilities in Ukraine as soon as possible, and the Russian president agreed with Trump that a long-term settlement in Ukraine could be achieved through negotiations. In a phone conversation, Putin and Trump agreed to organize a personal meeting. Moreover, Vladimir Putin invited Trump to Moscow.

Almost the entire world press commented on the negotiations between the presidents of Russia and the United States.

The shock of the Europeans was so huge that due to the Putin-Trump phone call, the European press ignored the statement by Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth, who signaled the beginning of the curtailment of the American presence in Europe.
“We are here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe,” the Pentagon chief told reporters in Stuttgart, noting that the United States is shifting its focus to the security of its own borders.
“We also face a peer competitor in the Communist Chinese with the capability and intent to threaten our homeland and core national interests in the Indo-Pacific. The U.S. is prioritizing deterring war with China in the Pacific, recognizing the reality of scarcity, and making the resourcing tradeoffs to ensure deterrence does not fail,” he said.
“Together, we can establish a division of labor that maximizes our comparative advantages in Europe and Pacific respectively,” he added.

While the Armenian authorities were convincing themselves and the country’s population that “Russia was leaving the South Caucasus,” it turned out that the United States could “unexpectedly” leave Europe. But what should Armenia do? Especially in a situation when, despite the approaching end of the geopolitical clash between the United States and Russia, which could lead to a “New Yalta” (that is, to the formation of new borders and a new system of international relations), Nikol Pashinyan’s faction “Civil Contract” approved in the first reading the draft bill on launching the country’s accession to the EU.

What is the way out of this situation? Given the aspirations of the Armenian authorities to integrate into the Turkish world, the proposal of former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who proposed to include the Gaza Strip in Turkey, may seem like a way out. “Turkey, as the legitimate successor of the Ottoman Empire, should treat the residents of the Gaza Strip as comrades… Let the residents of the Gaza Strip hold a referendum and join Turkey as an autonomous region until a Palestinian State is established. The decision is up to the people of Gaza,” he said.

Why can Gaza join Turkey, but Pashinyan’s “real Armenia” cannot? Moreover, the origins of this concept of “real Armenia” can go back to the work of the Turkish analytical center Seta, which uses this term in its geopolitical analysis of the situation for 2025. Moreover, it praises Pashinyan for being able to separate “historical Armenia” from “real Armenia.” What a wonderful way out of the situation for the Armenian authorities.

In the context of Putin and Trump’s contacts, it can be assumed that Alen Simonyan’s aggression and Pashinyan’s nervous attacks in the National Assembly are due to the fact that even they understand that the current situation proves that Armenia had many times more chances to keep Karabakh than to lose it. And soon, they may have to explain how it happened that there is no Karabakh, but they still exist?

Think about it.…