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    What are your thoughts on Pashinyan winning the elections?

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    1. Apprehensive-Unit268 on

      I mean like he is at peace right now isnt he. Trying to fix the relations with the neighbor countries like az-tr etc. I mean this guy is not going bad atm imo.

    4. Kingvon3240 on

      Armenia will never be truly independent they are choosing west as their master instead of russia now

    5. South_Discount_7965 on

      I really like how pashinyan persues better relationships with turks rather than hating because of the past, and tries to distance his country from russia

    7. Potential_Ticket6978 on

      As long as things stay peaceful, I truly just want the best for regular, everyday Armenian people.

    10. kyzylkhum on

      I’m surprised this man is still alive, let alone winning elections

      They killed the Turkish citizen of Armenian descent Hrant Dink in Turkey years ago, allegedly because he insulted the Turkish identity by a vague sentence in one of his articles. I, as a Turkish nationalist myself, read all what Dink wrote and found nothing but calls to resolution of historical problems. That cherry picked sentence was nothing compared to what some people had said until then, is still nothing next to what some Turkish citizen outliers ordinarily say and write. Dink did say there was such a thing as the Armenian genocide, but then again there are still many who claim that. No one’s getting assassinated for their opinions on this specific matter. In contrast to many, Dink had talked of reconciliation, that made him stand out

      Pashinyan may not be an angel but he too seems to think there is no way other than resolving the historical and recent matters with his neighbors, appears to want to take restorative steps, that should count

    11. Dabi2K on

      I have a genuine, heartfelt, entirely good faith question for my Azerbaijani redditors. Do you think Ilham Aliyev seeks peace? What do you think his endgame is as a statesman, and how do geopolitics broadly and relations with Armenia specifically fit into that? Additionally, how confident are you in your understanding of what he’s all about?

      That’s it, now for my part.

      As an ethnic Armenian, I didn’t support Pashinyan for various reasons. Leaving his political and moral shortcomings aside – of which there is a myriad but which you guys probably don’t care about – I don’t think his approach to achieving peace is possible when your counterpart is a dictatorship. Azerbaijani people do seem to want peace – I say this judging from Azerbaijani language comments on Facebook congratulating Pashinyan with glee. But with all due respect, you guys don’t run your country. If Azerbaijan was a democratic country where the goal of the politicians was to bring about prosperity for the people, I would whole-heartedly support the Pashinyan strategy towards peace – which is to chill out and develop trade and personal links. But Azerbaijan’s goal isn’t to achieve prosperity for Azerbaijanis. In fact, war with Armenia has been the lifeblood of your ruling dynasty – nothing special here, the same was arguably true in Armenia pre Pashinyan and certainly is and has been true with many autocracies around the world. And yet Pashinyan is dealing with you like you’re a democracy whose national interests are geared towards creating prosperity. This seems to me like self-delusion and is showing the first signs of a gradual loss of sovereignty to a fundamentally hostile Aliyev regime. What do you guys think? Would you consider this a positive end outcome? Sidenote: I think some in Pashinyan’s camp realise all this, but think it’s an unavoidable temporary arrangement that may one day end when Azerbaijan democratises. Like how democratic Finland had to toe the Soviet line to maintain nominal independence, and then became actually independent when that regime collapsed.

    13. SirVandi on

      What about Armenians’ views on Pashinyan? Do they still support his policies

    14. For_Kebabs_Sake on

      Putin won’t like this, there might be a special operation for Armenia if they put a stop to operations in Ukraine… Although Ukraine might help the Armos just to fuck with Russia.