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Re: "Armenia's Allies"
John, your lack of respect and consideration for our attitudes towards our "third world country" is not going to do you well here. Yes we know there are problems with Armenia and have our own members dedicated to addressing them, however, we don't make overgeneralizations, putting a bad rap on post soviet states being inherently xxxxholes and how Romania is this magical model to follow. Personally I don't know much about the statistics of Romania but have been told by a Romanian immigrant to Canada that his reason for leaving was that the locals were very violent and stupid for no reason. This is a Romanian individual's attitude that I present to you as contradicting the kind you present to us.
Also, its countryside generally lacks economic infrastructure, perhaps they've modernized a few population centers but what leads you to believe that on the whole, their society is that much more advanced than other Balkan states, or even post-soviet states? Simple EU membership, earning them positive rankings by going along with a Eurocentric doctrine of centralization of power? How are they any different, qualitatively, from Armenia aligning itself with Moscow as opposed to Brussels? How can you promise that their choice, in the longrun, is inherently more "civilized" or "advanced" just because it's not Russia oriented? In my opinion, any lack of diplomacy towards Russia on the part of Eastern Europeans is actually hubris, not based on ensuring the maximum social security for its populations but rather, seeing the issue as black and white, West oriented or Russia oriented. I have a strong sense that you too, have this black and white pair of sunglasses and I suggest you diversify the source of bias in your readings of geopolitics. This can be a hard thing to do if we mixed pride with our analysis, we Armenians have to cope with this tendancy all the time if we want to expand the scope to a competent calibur for viewing such matters with.
John, your lack of respect and consideration for our attitudes towards our "third world country" is not going to do you well here. Yes we know there are problems with Armenia and have our own members dedicated to addressing them, however, we don't make overgeneralizations, putting a bad rap on post soviet states being inherently xxxxholes and how Romania is this magical model to follow. Personally I don't know much about the statistics of Romania but have been told by a Romanian immigrant to Canada that his reason for leaving was that the locals were very violent and stupid for no reason. This is a Romanian individual's attitude that I present to you as contradicting the kind you present to us.
Also, its countryside generally lacks economic infrastructure, perhaps they've modernized a few population centers but what leads you to believe that on the whole, their society is that much more advanced than other Balkan states, or even post-soviet states? Simple EU membership, earning them positive rankings by going along with a Eurocentric doctrine of centralization of power? How are they any different, qualitatively, from Armenia aligning itself with Moscow as opposed to Brussels? How can you promise that their choice, in the longrun, is inherently more "civilized" or "advanced" just because it's not Russia oriented? In my opinion, any lack of diplomacy towards Russia on the part of Eastern Europeans is actually hubris, not based on ensuring the maximum social security for its populations but rather, seeing the issue as black and white, West oriented or Russia oriented. I have a strong sense that you too, have this black and white pair of sunglasses and I suggest you diversify the source of bias in your readings of geopolitics. This can be a hard thing to do if we mixed pride with our analysis, we Armenians have to cope with this tendancy all the time if we want to expand the scope to a competent calibur for viewing such matters with.
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