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Re: Nagorno-Karabagh: Military Balance Between Armenia & Azerbaijan
I did come across another news source with a lot more quotes from the actual letter (translated into English) so it will be out there somewhere.
There was also a commentary about the ethos behind its writing - the admittance, by implication, by its author that no peaceful solution to the conflict will ever be found, and that Yerevan is incapable of properly defending NK in the long term, and only Russia will be able to properly do it.
The letter is I think, in its essence, an application to rejoin the Russian Empire. Which is why it is important to know if this letter is just an application by one private individual, or an individual acting on behalf of a section of the Armenian authorities interesting in testing the waters about this possible road for Armenia's future. The fact that a lot of the Armenian media sources stress it was an individual (but without giving readers an explanation about why it is important to know it was just an individual) suggests to me that actually it was not just a private initiative by Zori Balayan. Other recent events, such as the sellout of Armenian interests to join the Russian custom's union backs up that opinion. So, it is not unreasonable to fortell a future campaign (led perhaps by the oligarchs who run Armenia) for the re-admittance of Armenia into a reborn, Putin-led, Russian Empire. (However, apart from the prestige of it happening, Russia has probably little interest in seeing such a thing ever happen).
Originally posted by londontsi
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There was also a commentary about the ethos behind its writing - the admittance, by implication, by its author that no peaceful solution to the conflict will ever be found, and that Yerevan is incapable of properly defending NK in the long term, and only Russia will be able to properly do it.
The letter is I think, in its essence, an application to rejoin the Russian Empire. Which is why it is important to know if this letter is just an application by one private individual, or an individual acting on behalf of a section of the Armenian authorities interesting in testing the waters about this possible road for Armenia's future. The fact that a lot of the Armenian media sources stress it was an individual (but without giving readers an explanation about why it is important to know it was just an individual) suggests to me that actually it was not just a private initiative by Zori Balayan. Other recent events, such as the sellout of Armenian interests to join the Russian custom's union backs up that opinion. So, it is not unreasonable to fortell a future campaign (led perhaps by the oligarchs who run Armenia) for the re-admittance of Armenia into a reborn, Putin-led, Russian Empire. (However, apart from the prestige of it happening, Russia has probably little interest in seeing such a thing ever happen).
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