If Armenia had shown diplomatic flexibility, the 2016 war would not have taken place. RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced this during the online press conference a while ago.
“An event was organized in the village of Sayat-Nova, Ararat region, he was there – Commandos, when we were leaving, I offered to go to Yerevan together and all the way I asked him about the April war. What was that? Arkady Ter-Tadosyan said, “This was a bohemian divorce,” that is, he expressed his conviction that it was an intelligence operation. The reconnaissance operation precedes the implementation of a certain war plan, is tested and certain corrections are made. “The April 2016 war could have been prevented under the conditions under which I could have prevented the September 2020 war,” Pashinyan said.
“Could I have prevented the war? Of course, I could have prevented the war when I accepted the unrealistic and unacceptable demands made by Serzh Sargsyan, but now I say that not accepting all that, maybe it is a legitimate accusation against me that I I had to assess the situation, come and say, people, you know what, this is the situation, we have to make concessions to avoid war. “Now I think about it a lot, but there is something else, I had to convince myself that it is true,” Pashinyan said.
“You know, in reality, I do not want to say things now, so that it seems that I want to justify myself, I do not want to justify myself, in general, I have no excuse,” Pashinyan said.
Smooth talk as we say here.
Memory for the old year 2021? Just a reminder for the new year 2022!
A twist of fate or just a pity? That we will not forget in 2022.
After the Great War people were tired of the war, the Spanish Flu also made its appearance and almost everyone was financially bankrupt.
The Mudros armistice concluded on October 30, 1918, left the Ottoman Empire virtually at the mercy of the Entente. The Ottoman government could do little more than comply with the will of the Allies. Only the Anatolian area remained. And now it gets interesting.
The Treaty of Sèvres (or the Peace of Sèvres) was a peace treaty signed on August 10, 1920, between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire. Ratification in Ankara is another legal point of contention. But the treaty has been signed by all the participating parties.
However …. as so often in history, the victors do not agree. Geopolitical goals are too different and mutual interests too diverse. The harsh reality of political positions and balance of power play a greater role than the intended common wishes, goals and honourable decisions, which do justice to the many innocent victims.
And also, as so often, the defeated, through manipulation and obstruction, take advantage of this. The successors of the Ottoman Empire also did this with all the bad (and predictable) consequences that entailed. It can be argued that the Treaty of Sèvres was politically murdered and that the defeated had their way through the later Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
It can be safely said that the genocide and the still unresolved bottlenecks in the entire region (Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Armenia, Artsakh, Nagorno-Karabakh, Syria, Libya, Israel, Lebanon, Kurdistan and other files) emerged from this.
And so my salutation: A twist of fate or just a pity? Fill it in yourself. But even an oppressor for centuries after being defeated has again become an oppressor (both domestically and towards neighbouring countries). This can no longer be explained or accepted.
More than a hundred years ago, justice would have been done to many oppressed countries and populations, who have been oppressed for centuries by the Ottoman Empire and, or worse, enslaved by the megalomaniac assertion of the sultans. A recognized Kurdistan, a return of Greek territories (including Byzantium, Constantinople) and the recognition of a much larger Armenia based on democratic foundations.
Well, again not a fairy tale, but a story that is difficult to swallow, which after 100 years is still simmering with all the consequences and human suffering that entails.
One hundred years, that’s more than 36,500 days to choose the Good and reject the Evil. How much clearer does it need to be? It is better to stop halfway than to persevere in an error.