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RUSSIAN TANKS WILL SHOOT AT KARABAKH
The Russia-based Vedomosti learned from the ministry of defense that
Russia supplies to Azerbaijan arms, namely modern tanks and armored
cars, with a value of 1 billion dollars.
Russia is one of the main suppliers of Azerbaijan. Russia is Armenia's
strategic ally and a CSTO member state. So is Armenia. CSTO is a
military and political alliance which aims at protecting its members
from aggression by other states.
Azerbaijan is constantly making aggressive threats. Russia is
constantly supplying arms to Azerbaijan. Armenia is constantly silent
except for some media, political scientists, experts, analysts and
politicians.
Moreover, some Armenia-based apologists of the Russian-Azerbaijani
military cooperation have found the justification of silence: it is
not bad that Russia supplies arms to Azerbaijan because it means that
Russia will control the use of supplied arms against Armenia. Silence
is justified, and no doubt, only self-restraint prevents the Armenian
apologists of the Russian military deal from thanking Russia for
selling weapon to Azerbaijan.
In the meantime, Russian gas expansion is gathering momentum. First it
boosted the price, than took the government's last shares of ARG.The
Armenian public and politicians are indignant which is expressed in
such descriptions of the government's behavior is lie, falsehood etc.
Those are fair descriptions because lie and falsehood remain the most
typical descriptions of the government of independent Armenia.
On the other hand, what does the society and political class of
Armenia do apart from shouting abuse?
After all, the nature, basis and scope of relations between Russia
and Armenia are such that the government alone cannot do a lot. The
society, and particularly the so-called political forces can have a
big role.
What are those forces doing? They are waiting until the government
fails in coping with Russia. If it fails, and so has to pay a high
price to Russia, the so-called political forces are waiting to avail
themselves of force majeures and come to power with Russia's blessing
or show up in the corridors of the Kremlin and announce that they did
not prevent Russia from strengthening their influence in Armenia,
protect their interests in Armenia, so let Russia defend their
interests a little in Armenia.
As a result, everyone benefits except Armenia.
One of the arguments of Armenian apologists of the Russian-Azerbaijani
deal is that Russia provides the security of Armenia, and though
it sells weapon to Azerbaijan, it also sells weapon to Armenia at
low prices.
This demagogy about CSTO membership and cheap weapon is another myth
because cheap weapon supplied to Armenia is not equivalent to modern
weapons that Russia supplies to Azerbaijan.
Toasts about cheap weapon may sound nice at Armenian-Russian friendship
tables but in real politics Moscow charges market prices for modern
weapons being smart enough to state its requirements publicly. And the
Armenian government does not publish the requirements to make sure that
Russia does not deprive it of the opportunity of relatively old and
cheap weapons in the silence of the so-called main political forces.
James Hakobyan 16:24 18/06/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30203
From: A. Papazian
The Russia-based Vedomosti learned from the ministry of defense that
Russia supplies to Azerbaijan arms, namely modern tanks and armored
cars, with a value of 1 billion dollars.
Russia is one of the main suppliers of Azerbaijan. Russia is Armenia's
strategic ally and a CSTO member state. So is Armenia. CSTO is a
military and political alliance which aims at protecting its members
from aggression by other states.
Azerbaijan is constantly making aggressive threats. Russia is
constantly supplying arms to Azerbaijan. Armenia is constantly silent
except for some media, political scientists, experts, analysts and
politicians.
Moreover, some Armenia-based apologists of the Russian-Azerbaijani
military cooperation have found the justification of silence: it is
not bad that Russia supplies arms to Azerbaijan because it means that
Russia will control the use of supplied arms against Armenia. Silence
is justified, and no doubt, only self-restraint prevents the Armenian
apologists of the Russian military deal from thanking Russia for
selling weapon to Azerbaijan.
In the meantime, Russian gas expansion is gathering momentum. First it
boosted the price, than took the government's last shares of ARG.The
Armenian public and politicians are indignant which is expressed in
such descriptions of the government's behavior is lie, falsehood etc.
Those are fair descriptions because lie and falsehood remain the most
typical descriptions of the government of independent Armenia.
On the other hand, what does the society and political class of
Armenia do apart from shouting abuse?
After all, the nature, basis and scope of relations between Russia
and Armenia are such that the government alone cannot do a lot. The
society, and particularly the so-called political forces can have a
big role.
What are those forces doing? They are waiting until the government
fails in coping with Russia. If it fails, and so has to pay a high
price to Russia, the so-called political forces are waiting to avail
themselves of force majeures and come to power with Russia's blessing
or show up in the corridors of the Kremlin and announce that they did
not prevent Russia from strengthening their influence in Armenia,
protect their interests in Armenia, so let Russia defend their
interests a little in Armenia.
As a result, everyone benefits except Armenia.
One of the arguments of Armenian apologists of the Russian-Azerbaijani
deal is that Russia provides the security of Armenia, and though
it sells weapon to Azerbaijan, it also sells weapon to Armenia at
low prices.
This demagogy about CSTO membership and cheap weapon is another myth
because cheap weapon supplied to Armenia is not equivalent to modern
weapons that Russia supplies to Azerbaijan.
Toasts about cheap weapon may sound nice at Armenian-Russian friendship
tables but in real politics Moscow charges market prices for modern
weapons being smart enough to state its requirements publicly. And the
Armenian government does not publish the requirements to make sure that
Russia does not deprive it of the opportunity of relatively old and
cheap weapons in the silence of the so-called main political forces.
James Hakobyan 16:24 18/06/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30203
From: A. Papazian