The Armenian Empire

[Anonymouse]

Armenia doesnt need more politicians, it has enough. It needs a leader with strong charisma, moral judgement, vision, courage, self-sacrafice. I know it might sound harsh, but I think Armenia needs a strong dictator to set the country back on the right course. All this political bickering does nothing for the people. The politicians are only fighting to see who gets to sit on the high chair and take bribes.

Oh yea? And just what is the "right course"? Imperialism and expansion? Economic prosperity? Save the fact that most people who advocate for strong centralism and authoritarianism have no knowledge of economics, thus can never know that economic stability and wealth or jobs are never created by "leaders" or the State, but by human action.

[garegin]

Oh yea? And just what is the "right course"? Imperialism and expansion? Economic prosperity? Save the fact that most people who advocate for strong centralism and authoritarianism have no knowledge of economics, thus can never know that economic stability and wealth or jobs are never created by "leaders" or the State, but by human action.

just too much parallels to what happened in Germany and Italy. People were outta jobs, so leaders promised them greatness and prosperity.

[Thai-Samurai]

i see where this threads going, this is what my impression is; "Armenia is small!" "Armenia is losing its people!" "People are gonna march in and take Armenia!" "Don't be optimisitic about Armenia!" Does that sum up your posts so far Anonymouse?

[garegin]

phuck that xxxx. tommorow the new armored(i mean T-48) division will march through kars, van, and erzrum. greeks slam them from west and armenians from east. and if america tries to phuck around, we invite the iranians to the board. americans are very afraid of muslim insurgents, right. boo boo boo
polis is not turk's, they stole it from the greeks and made it a pig barn.

[Thai-Samurai]

lol actually they stole it from Byzantine.

[Anonymouse]

i see where this threads going, this is what my impression is; "Armenia is small!" "Armenia is losing its people!" "People are gonna march in and take Armenia!" "Don't be optimisitic about Armenia!" Does that sum up your posts so far Anonymouse?

No it doesn't .

[garegin]

greeks were the residents of byzantine.
you could clearly see the nation named as greeks in many manuscripts

[GSTracer05]

Oh yea? And just what is the "right course"? Imperialism and expansion? Economic prosperity? Save the fact that most people who advocate for strong centralism and authoritarianism have no knowledge of economics, thus can never know that economic stability and wealth or jobs are never created by "leaders" or the State, but by human action.

No, not imperialism or expansion. Armenia is faaar away from accomplishing things of that sort. Economic prosperity; less corruption; enforcement of laws (did you know people actually spit at police officers in armenia?) Before Armenia's independance from the USSR, would you not say that the poverty levels were less? People had jobs? The law (even though harsh at times) was enforced? What do you see now? You have a small majority that control most of Armenia's wealth and it is mainly located in the capital and its outskirts. You have people in nearby cities and villages on the point of starvation. No housing, no jobs, not even proper sanitation.

You are right, economic stability can not be created by a leader, but by the people. But what happens when you take away leadership from these people? For decades they have been used to strong leadership. Now that's gone, every person for himself. You need a leader to establish a strong govt, one that is not corrupt, one that will fight corruption and not turn a blind eye towards it.

Here's a small example, in how many US airports do you have to bribe the guy checking your luggage to let you through? Then take a look at Armenia. You could argue that the attendants taking the bribes have families to feed (in most cases its true), which brings me to my "every person for himself" point. Its a tremendous task in the undertaking, but it has to start at some point.

[Thai-Samurai]

I agree..........................

[garegin]

there was one leader who won my respect, the shrila-lankan PM. He rebuilt his country and brought many jobs.