ArmInfo. Armenia without allies, surrounded by touched sympathizers, Vahe Hovhannisyan, expert of the "Alternative Projects" group, wrote as he commented on the participation of the Prime Minister of Armenia in the solemn ceremony of reburial of the remains of the national hero of France Missak Manouchian.
"We as a whole nation are proud of Missak Manouchian, who was shot 80 years ago during World War II (and we are doing the right thing), but we do not know the names of about 250 of our fallen guys who heroically fought in Artsakh 6 months ago, on September 19-20. Our guys, who stood in front of the Azerbaijani army, knowing full well that they were going to be shot. They knew that they were alone and would die, because today's state of Armenia does not fully perceive our Motherland, and today's Armenia has no allies. Not only do we not know these guys by name: at the state level, but we don't remember about them, we don't realize what they did, their last heroic battle for Artsakh, we don't remember about their children, their families, their beloved ones," he wrote.
According to him, people in Armenia are proud that Manouchian is an Armenian, and the French honor him.
"However, after our 44-day war, the funeral of 5 thousand dead, DNA identification of remains, the search for missing people were accompanied by noisy and cheerful restaurants in Yerevan, including from high- ranking government officials. A week ago we lost 4 of our defenders, and Few people remember this today.
"We are proud of the Armenian hero of the French resistance, and rightfully so, but we are "heroically" losing Artsakh, as if nothing serious had happened. We are talking about the sublime and honest idea of resistance, but after the loss of Artsakh, at least one person from the government did not resign, showing individual resistance, and a week after the loss of Artsakh there was a quiet, peaceful meeting in the Armenian parliament, the logical continuation of which was the discussion of the issue about a partner and virginity. This is the quality of our state thinking," the expert noted.
At the same time, he wondered, so what does Armenia have today - allies or sympathizers? According to him, instead of allies, Armenia has sympathizers. "Honoring Manouchian in Paris was accompanied by a new wave of anti-Russian demarches and inappropriate formulations that will not add allies, but will definitely add enemies. With our own hands we are increasing the number of so-called "bulls" that Nikol Pashinyan spoke about. We are turning a potential ally Russia into an enemy. From a potential ally of France, we are moving towards a sympathetic France. From a potential ally, Iran, we are moving towards a new enemy, or at least an observer.
We will make mistakes until we get an unfriendly country from Georgia as a new little "bull" from the outside," Hovhannisyan is sure.
The expert believes that only Armenia's Nikol can officially welcome the regional "3+2" format, but place emphasis on European observers, which are opposed by the same states in the region.
"He added that Armenia needs an ally, not a sympathizer. "Acquiring and keeping an ally requires intelligence, strategic thinking and work, and to gain sympathizers you need endless reasons for sympathy and emotional actions. Nations that do not have state thinking always overtake disasters, always give rise to adventurous governments and elites that lack state thinking. This is vicious, a catastrophic period from which we have little time left," Hovhannisyan concluded.
French President Emmanuel Macron, on February 21, during his speech in Paris, drew parallels between Missak Manouchian's fight against Nazism and what is happening today around Ukraine. In this vein, the French president pointed out the importance of Armenia's ratification of the Rome Statute.