By Wally Sarkeesian

Nikol Pashinyan lobbied the world—meeting EU leaders, shaking hands with Putin, and standing before U.S. officials. Secretly meeting Erdogan and Aliyev Yet not once did he negotiate with strength or make a genuine attempt to save Artsakh. His mission was not defense, not dignity, not the protection of his people. But dismantling 

Instead, he built a wall of protection around himself—a police state trained to shield him from Armenians, not from Armenia’s enemies. Like Aliyev and Erdoğan, he created a vicious apparatus that silenced dissent, crushed protest, and guaranteed his own survival, even as the nation crumbled.

This was not leadership.
It was surrender disguised as diplomacy.
It was betrayal enforced by police shields.

The November 2020 capitulation proves the truth. On the battlefield, Azerbaijan could not capture Artsakh or Kalbajar. Armenian fighters held the line, unbroken. In war, when a ceasefire is signed, the land held belongs to those who defended it. Yet Pashinyan handed everything away—without being forced. Even Aliyev admitted: if the war had continued one more week, Azerbaijan would have lost.

This was not a defeat imposed by the enemy.
It was a betrayal orchestrated from within.
And while Armenian soldiers bled for their homeland, the police guarded Pashinyan—so he could surrender Artsakh.

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By Wally Sarkeesian

Armenia stands in the shadow of betrayal
Will Pashinyan end up in the same rat hole as Saakachvili?

History has a way of repeating itself. Georgia lived through it under Mikheil Saakashvili, and now Armenia is enduring it under Nikol Pashinyan. Both men came to power promising reform, but instead delivered betrayal, division, and national decline. Both aligned themselves with Turkey and Azerbaijan, deceived the European Union, and pursued policies that hollowed out their own states from within. And just as Georgians eventually realized the scale of Saakashvili’s treachery, Armenians, too, will awaken to the truth about Pashinyan.

Saakashvili’s Georgia became the playground of foreign interests. Turkey and Azerbaijan built oil pipelines and railways across Georgian territory, effectively transforming the country into a geopolitical pawn designed to weaken Russia. The cost was devastating: Georgia lost two provinces and its sovereignty was compromised. Eventually, the Georgian people understood what had been done to them. They rose up and rejected Saakashvili, leaving him disgraced and imprisoned.

Nikol Pashinyan’s betrayal of Armenia, however, runs even deeper. Posing as a reformer and democrat, he worked hand in hand with Turkey and Azerbaijan while pretending to defend Armenian interests. He orchestrated a staged war over Artsakh, only to surrender it outright. For seven long years, Pashinyan maintained the illusion of negotiations and consultations, which were nothing more than deliberate stalling tactics. These years were not about peace; they were about buying time for Pashinyan to consolidate his power and prepare the machinery of repression.

The most blatant betrayal came with the November 9, 2020 capitulation, where Pashinyan not only handed Artsakh to Azerbaijan but also opened the door to a new geopolitical trap: a corridor across Armenia, linking Turkey and Azerbaijan directly. This was done without a national referendum, without consulting the Armenian people, and without any democratic mandate. Every major concession—from Artsakh’s surrender to the corridor agreement—was forced upon the nation without its consent. Like Saakashvili before him, Pashinyan turned his country into a passageway for foreign powers, disregarding the will of his people.

Like Turkey and Azerbaijan, Pashinyan built a vicious police state. When Armenians resisted his rule, he unleashed his forces with brutality—beating protestors, dragging citizens off the streets, and filling the prisons with political detainees. His repression has not stopped with opposition politicians. Business leaders, religious figures, and ordinary citizens have all been targeted. Armenia’s prisons are increasingly filled with political prisoners, while its streets echo with the silence of fear.

This is no accident. Pashinyan has carefully dismantled the foundations of Armenian society. By weakening the Church, silencing independent voices, and terrorizing the population, he seeks to sever Armenians from their identity and their means of resistance. What he has done to Artsakh is only part of the picture. His true crime is the systematic destruction of Armenia’s very soul.

Just as Georgians recognized the disaster Saakashvili brought upon them, Armenians too will one day see the full scope of Pashinyan’s betrayal. His alliance with Turkey and Azerbaijan, his deception of the Armenian people, his surrender of Artsakh, and his imposition of the corridor without a referendum will not be forgotten. History will not absolve him. And when the Armenian people rise—as they inevitably will—Pashinyan will meet the same fate as Saakashvili: disgraced, broken, and imprisoned.

For now, Armenia stands in the shadow of betrayal. But betrayal has a way of sowing its own destruction. The silence cannot last forever. Just as the Georgian people reclaimed their voice, so too will Armenians reclaim their dignity, their land, and their future.

By Wally Sarkeesian

In every nation’s history, there comes a moment when the people must ask whether their leaders serve the nation or serve themselves. For Armenians, that question has grown sharper in recent years as painful events unfolded around Artsakh, Syunik, and the broader struggle for sovereignty. Many now fear that instead of protecting the homeland, the political leadership has chosen the easier path of compromise, cooperation with adversaries, and suppression of the very citizens who once defended the nation’s dignity.

At the heart of the frustration lies a sense of betrayal. Armenia’s leadership once claimed it lacked the mandate to negotiate over Artsakh, insisting that the people’s will could not be bargained away. Yet after the disastrous war of 2020, that very stance collapsed. Negotiations shifted toward territorial concessions, and the narrative turned from safeguarding Armenian rights to managing surrender in the name of “peace.”

But peace has not followed. Instead, Armenians have seen the erosion of national security, the hollowing out of political accountability, and a campaign of pressure against some of the country’s most successful business figures—men and women who, in years past, devoted resources to Artsakh’s survival. Rather than being celebrated as patriots, they became scapegoats in a new political order where loyalty to the ruling elite seemed more important than loyalty to the nation.

Meanwhile, the adversary across the border boasts of military might and spreads Armenophobic rhetoric unchecked. Armenia’s silence in the face of such hostility feels less like diplomacy and more like acquiescence. When leaders speak of “historic opportunities for peace,” many Armenians hear only the echo of past betrayals: the November 2020 capitulation, the quiet surrender of borderlands, and now the chilling prospect of deeper concessions in Syunik.

The spectacle is bitter. While political leaders stand smiling beside their counterparts, Armenians see their own people—entrepreneurs, community builders, defenders of Artsakh—treated as expendable. The image is not one of peace, but of conspiracy: two powerful hands raised together, while ordinary Armenians and patriots are left behind bars, both figuratively and literally.

What is at stake is larger than the fate of any single leader or oligarch. It is the question of national dignity. Can Armenia survive when its most capable voices are silenced? Can Artsakh’s legacy endure when the defenders of its cause are punished, not honored? Can peace be trusted when built on secrecy, silence, and the imprisonment of those who stood for Armenian survival?

History is unforgiving. Those who trade sovereignty for short-term security often discover that they lose both. If today Armenia appears weaker, more fractured, and more vulnerable, it is not because of the Armenian people, but because of the choices of a political elite that mistook submission for strategy.

For many Armenians, the dream remains the same: a free, secure homeland where leaders defend rather than betray, where businessmen who supported Artsakh are recognized rather than persecuted, and where peace is built on dignity rather than capitulation. Until then, the silence of the powerful will only deepen the anger of the people—and the shadow of betrayal will haunt Armenia’s future.

By Wally Sarkeesian

Armenian Ruthless Dictator Nikol Pashinyan has transformed Armenia’s security landscape in ways that raise serious concerns about the country’s democratic future. While the military has been steadily weakened, the police have been expanded into a formidable force—larger than the army itself and trained with the assistance of foreign governments. This shift has not only undermined Armenia’s defenses but has also consolidated a domestic apparatus designed to protect Pashinyan’s rule rather than the nation.

The scale of his power is symbolized by his outsized motorcade—reportedly larger than that of the President of the United States. Such excess reflects more than personal vanity; it underscores the extent to which state resources are being directed toward securing the leader rather than serving the people.

Most troubling are Pashinyan’s warnings to the public: support his proposed peace treaty or prepare for revolution. This is not the language of a statesman seeking national unity but of a ruler confident in his ability to crush dissent. Over the past seven years, thousands of Armenians have been imprisoned for little more than voicing opposition. Today, prisons hold political detainees ranging from religious leaders to prominent business figures.

Armenia now faces a stark question. Will its people continue to endure a government increasingly accused of serving foreign interests, or will they find the unity to reclaim their democratic voice? The answer will define not only Armenia’s present but its future as a sovereign nation.

By Wally Sarkeesian

Conversation Part 2 — One Party for Armenians

I have never in my life joined any political party or organization — and that’s exactly why I can speak freely. I’ll tell you why: in Armenia, political parties are not built to serve the people. They are built to divide them.

Seventeen parties… fifty parties… one hundred parties — the number doesn’t matter. The result is always the same: chaos, division, weakness. Pashinyan mastered the “divide and conquer” strategy, and he played it to perfection — Armenia paid the price.

And if that wasn’t enough, we have twenty more so-called organizations in the diaspora, each pulling in its own direction, tearing our nation apart like vultures over a carcass.

This madness must end.
One Armenia. One voice. One power.

Armenia must adopt a Swiss-style government, where the president and prime minister serve only one term — one year — before rotating. No one should hold power long enough to corrupt it.

Because with multiple parties, we will never win.
Division is our greatest enemy.
Unity is our only hope.
And united — we cannot be defeated.

By Wally Sarkeesian

Part 1: Artsakh Liberation Is Possible — So Is Nakhichevan

Some people doubt it, but it’s absolutely doable. The first step — the most important step — is removing and investigating the criminal in power. We must find out exactly how the Turks recruited him, how the plan for the 2020 war was crafted between him, Aliyev, and Turkey.

Armenia wasn’t defeated by its people or its soldiers — it was betrayed by its leaders. This betrayal has divided Armenians like never before. You can see it everywhere, even in online posts — Armenians swearing at each other, driven apart by the hatred sown by Pashinyan’s regime.

What Armenia needs now is leadership that can unite the people. Whoever comes to power must also embrace the Diaspora — the way Israel does. In Israel, the government is filled with people from the Diaspora, bringing expertise and global perspective. Armenia must drop its prejudice against the Diaspora and bring in the best minds from the U.S., France, Russia, Canada, and beyond to build a new government and a modern system.

The corrupt police system must be dismantled. Keep only a small police force for traffic and civilian needs — the rest should be in military uniform, sent to the borders, trained, and prepared for war. Armenia doesn’t need oppressive internal policing. Armenians are a peaceful people; they know each other, they are family and neighbors.

This is just the beginning of the conversation. There’s much more to say — and much more to plan. Join the conversation…

Armenia have gain nothing from the so called peace:
In 2002, the two nations discussed a land swap, in which Armenia would gain access to Nagorno-Karabakh, and Azerbaijan would gain access to Nakhchivan through a southern corridor (then called the “Meghri corridor”).

Now that Nagorno-Karabakh has been recaptured by Azerbaijan, it’s unclear what Armenia will gain in return for giving Azerbaijan access to this southern corridor. This might hinder the deal’s implementation, since Azerbaijan wants Armenia to amend its constitution to “eliminate territorial claims against Azerbaijan.” If Armenians don’t see any upside, the referendum to amend the constitution may fail.