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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
no, it's not even remotely similar. In Azerbaijan they use that method by ridiculously accusing journalists whose identity is clear and with the intention of hiding government theft and other matters that have nothing to do with national security.
here however, you have total anonymity and I have no way of knowing your identity beforehand. Moreover we have had several Azeris attempt to do that, so the paranoia is very much justified. The reason is, we're not discussion government corruption, but a very real national threat with an active information war that is half the battle.
Just in the past five years we have made a dramatic shift in national dialogue with the use of proper maps of Artsakh and with ending the levonakan karabakhci v hayastanci bullsh-t, thanks in part due to the effort of people here or like minded people, and this has completely affected our approach and our chances in the current conflict. Just search images for "map of karabakh" and compare it to a search limited to items from 2010 and before and you'll see the difference.
So when we have accused someone of either being Azeri spreading misinformation, or an Armenian inadvertently hurting our cause by their uninformed statements, it has always been accurate. It hasn't been for whether Lfik or Sashik have been stealing. It's been for uninformed statements like yours.
What you are doing is hurting that very information war. Our media is ranked 74th in terms of independence while theirs is ranked 163rd. And 74th is about as high as it gets for countries in Armenia's active conflict situation like South Korea and Israel. Armenian online media has total independence. a large majority of online Armenian media is anti-government. I'm more pro-democracy than most, but even I think Armenian media is some regards is too free and ends up hurting our national cause. So when our media reports 85 deaths for us and over 300 deaths for them, I believe that there was 85 deaths for us and over 300 for them.
Nobody ever said thousands. there was a single unofficial statement made once by some govt rep saying they might have had up to 2000 injuries/deaths combined. And I never said you were an Azeri. What I tried to convey is that you are unaware that you are contributing to their information war.
Originally posted by ayrudzi
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here however, you have total anonymity and I have no way of knowing your identity beforehand. Moreover we have had several Azeris attempt to do that, so the paranoia is very much justified. The reason is, we're not discussion government corruption, but a very real national threat with an active information war that is half the battle.
Just in the past five years we have made a dramatic shift in national dialogue with the use of proper maps of Artsakh and with ending the levonakan karabakhci v hayastanci bullsh-t, thanks in part due to the effort of people here or like minded people, and this has completely affected our approach and our chances in the current conflict. Just search images for "map of karabakh" and compare it to a search limited to items from 2010 and before and you'll see the difference.
So when we have accused someone of either being Azeri spreading misinformation, or an Armenian inadvertently hurting our cause by their uninformed statements, it has always been accurate. It hasn't been for whether Lfik or Sashik have been stealing. It's been for uninformed statements like yours.
What you are doing is hurting that very information war. Our media is ranked 74th in terms of independence while theirs is ranked 163rd. And 74th is about as high as it gets for countries in Armenia's active conflict situation like South Korea and Israel. Armenian online media has total independence. a large majority of online Armenian media is anti-government. I'm more pro-democracy than most, but even I think Armenian media is some regards is too free and ends up hurting our national cause. So when our media reports 85 deaths for us and over 300 deaths for them, I believe that there was 85 deaths for us and over 300 for them.
Nobody ever said thousands. there was a single unofficial statement made once by some govt rep saying they might have had up to 2000 injuries/deaths combined. And I never said you were an Azeri. What I tried to convey is that you are unaware that you are contributing to their information war.
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