Is Baku’s war against Yerevan just a “reputational stain”?

Nikol Pashinyan’s Friday press conference managed to make a lot of fuss, both in Armenia and abroad. The major conclusion is that Pashinyan, in 8 hours of his press conference, demonstrated that, as a politician and a head of state, he is no more. During his press conference, Pashinyan not only did not offer society anything conceptually new, but he could not even ensure that his press conference remained at the top of the information agenda for more than one day. As soon as the live broadcast ended, even the small interest of the media and social networks in Pashinyan’s words faded away.
But this did not prevent Pashinyan’s words from creating additional tension in foreign policy. In particular, the heads of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as well as Abkhazian MPs, reacted to Pashinyan’s statement on the recognition of Georgia’s territorial integrity.

Thus, the President of South Ossetia, Alan Gagloev, said that the opinion of the politician Nikol Pashinyan, who “betrayed his people,” has no value. President of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania, in turn, reminded Pashinyan that Armenians in Abkhazia have everything that Pashinyan could not guarantee to the Armenians of Karabakh, who, as a result of his policy, faced the tragedy of the collapse of statehood and mass exodus from their native land.

Pashinyan is really “conquering new heights” by showing loyalty to the West—meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, meeting with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, ignoring events under the auspices of the CSTO and the CIS, and recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia as part of the territorial integrity of Georgia. Don’t be surprised if Pashinyan soon announces the need to open a Taiwanese embassy in Armenia. These statements once again demonstrate that the course chosen by Pashinyan personally is not just a change in the geopolitical vector but also a confrontation with Russia.
However, while Pashinyan is frivolously recognizing the territorial integrity of not only Azerbaijan but also Georgia, another American institute warned of a possible imminent attack by Azerbaijan against Armenia.

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has announced a threat to the reputation of British Petroleum (BP) in the event of an attack by Azerbaijan on Armenia. “If Azerbaijan, overconfident in its gas windfall, seeks to end the oldest Christian state completely, BP may shrug its shoulders, but it will be impossible for BP to sidestep its reputational stain,” the institute wrote.
The American Enterprise Institute is an independent non-governmental think tank of the conservative USA, established in 1943. The Institute is a non-governmental organization funded by companies such as Microsoft, Motorola, American Express, ExxonMobil, Chevron, AT&T, and others.

Have you noticed the wording? The war against Armenia, which is very likely to lead to thousands of casualties, will only lead to “reputational stain for the British company.” Earlier in November, The Guardian also wrote about the financing of Azerbaijani aggression and ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh by British Petroleum (BP).

It is obvious that Pashinyan, who gave another staged press conference on Friday, knew perfectly well and knows how likely the resumption of hostilities is on the territory of Armenia itself. However, he does not disclose this topic in such detail as the topic of a potential change of the anthem or his place in history.
Thus, when asked how his descendants will remember him and what place he will occupy in the history of the Armenian people, Pashinyan said that if the same hand that wrote the story about King Pap writes a new history, then he will be represented in it as an antichrist and a traitor.

A very interesting remark from Pashinyan regarding historiography and its impartiality. A remark that may lead to the idea that if the story about Pashinyan is written by the same hand that wrote the story of Mikhail Gorbachev in the West (and this is what Pashinyan apparently aspires to), then it is possible that Nikol Pashinyan will remain in Western historiography as a great reformer and democrat like Gorbachev. Perhaps Pashinyan, like Gorbachev, will even be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and will also be allowed, like the former president of the USSR, to star in an advertisement for one of the, if not American pizzerias, then Turkish kebab shops.
However, both in the case of Gorbachev and in the case of Pashinyan, history may end with the collapse of an entire state and millions of people…