What was offered to Pashinyan?

In Armenia, the statement by the leader and founder of the Georgian Dream Party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, who told Georgians about what the West offered to official Tbilisi, was unfairly ignored.

According to the Georgian politician, the West wanted to drag Tbilisi into a war against Russia. He said the country’s former prime minister, Irakli Garibashvili, told him how a high-ranking Western official pushed Tbilisi into a war with Moscow.

“Irakli asked, ‘But how many days do you think we can fight?’ He was told, ‘Probably three or four days’,” Ivanishvili said. According to the Western official, then it would be possible to move on to guerrilla warfare. In addition, he added that there are 3-4 million Georgians, so they will not all be killed quickly.

It would be wrong to say that Ivanishvili’s words contained anything new in terms of the West’s conceptual approach to building relations with “junior partners.” However, we are interested in a different context of the story told by Ivanishvili.

It is clear that the US has been and is looking around the world not only for weapons for Ukraine but also for entities that can help Washington achieve its goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia. Some agree to become a bargaining chip (look at what is happening with the German economy), while others, like Georgia, refuse. However, has any offer been made to Armenia and personally to Nikol Pashinyan in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war?

It is also clear that Armenia does not have a single land border with Russia, and fighting directly against Russia would be problematic. But Armenia can create obstacles to “expose” the southern front of Russia’s strategic borders, hinder Russian business by complicating bank transfers, and most importantly, agree to participate in communications and logistics projects that seek to cut off Russia from alternative communication routes.

Can we consider, for example, cutting off Russia from the communications of the South Caucasus region as “another front” against Russia? Can we consider the creation of communications at the expense of the territories and sovereignty of the Republic of Armenia, “paving the way for increased trade, investment, and connectivity between Europe and Central Asia” (which Joe Biden spoke about in his letter to Ilham Aliyev), as “another front” against Russia?

Can people have reasonable doubts about the fact that the American diplomats, including James O’Brien, who have been frequently visiting Armenia recently, discussed this very issue with Nikol Pashinyan?

Think about it…