ArmInfo. The director of Noravank scientific and educational foundation Gagik Harutyunyan is convinced that the US benefits from aggravation of the situation in the South Caucasus.
The expert considers the forecast of the National Survey of the United States on the possible aggravation of the situation in the zone of the Karabakh conflict not accidental. "The reports of the US National Intelligence Agency have their own name, namely, the forecast indication, that is, if they predict something, then they do everything to ensure its practical implementation," said Harutyunyan, and in this context added that the data The US actions are directed not against Armenia, but against Russia.
Harutyunyan believes that stirring up the third hotbed of tension in the Caucasus region will seriously weaken Russia. "From this point of view, the April 2016 war was not accidental, and Turkey and the United States were most interested in it," the expert said on March 20 at a press conference in Yerevan.
Recall that the director of national intelligence, Daniel Coates, at a hearing in the special committee on intelligence of the US Senate of Congress in February this year warned that the tension around Nagorno- Karabakh between Azerbaijan and Armenia could result in a large-scale military conflict in 2018. "The tensions over the contested area of Nagorno-Karabakh can transform into a large-scale military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, into which Russia can also be drawn in order to support its regional ally." The reluctance of both sides to compromise, the growing pressure within societies [in the two Transcaucasian republics] , the steady military modernization of Azerbaijan and the acquisition by Armenia of new Russian equipment reinforce the risk of large-scale military operations in 2018. "