ArmInfo. The idea is constantly circulating that in case of a flexible policy we could avoid war. However, people who think so should answer 1 question, why we did not manage to avoid the war in 2016. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.
The prime minister stressed that the "flexible" policy pursued by Armenia for many years led to the submission of Russian proposals in January 2016, which provided for the return of 7 regions (5 + 2) without any clarification of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Why did Russia make such an offer? For a simple reason, as a result of Armenia's "flexible" policy, the Madrid process entered a deadlock, since Artsakh could obtain a status outside Azerbaijan only with the consent of Azerbaijan.
It was obvious to Russia and to everyone that Azerbaijan would never agree to such an option (it has the opportunity to disagree), and therefore it was necessary to find ways to break the deadlock. And, by the way, if some people argue that the policy pursued by Armenia after 2018 was not pro-Russian enough and this was the reason for the war, then why did the Russian proposals appear in the context of a "rather pro- Russian" policy in 2016 and the April war took place? There was only one way to avoid the war - to return the territories, forgetting about the status of Artsakh. Now, of course, the number of supporters of this version has increased. However, they do not take into account the fact that in this case the Azerbaijani sign would appear near Goris. Also at one time we were accused of "selling land". Even now, they threaten the lives of our prisoners with suspicious statements.
The biggest omission of the supporters of "flexible" policy is that for many years they pursued a policy of avoiding war and not preparing for war. Our biggest shortcoming is that in two and a half years we have not managed to return enough stolen money and prepare properly for the war.