After World War II the rules and approaches to war changed, but not the principles...

01:57:00 02.11.2025

After World War II the rules and approaches to war changed, but not the principles. Decades after those catastrophic events there has been no case of two great powers declaring war on each other, because weapons have become far more destructive and armies much more dangerous, especially when we take nuclear arsenals into account. It has been very rare for a great power to launch a direct attack against a much smaller state, because such open aggression would become plainly visible and would be strongly condemned— as we saw in 2003 when America started a war against Iraq, and in 2022 when Russia began a war against Ukraine.

That is why, over the past eighty years, great powers have mainly used proxy states and forces to fight each other and advance their interests—or, more precisely, to satisfy their greed. We see examples of this pattern across the world: in Asia, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and of course in our region. The wars waged against Armenia in 1920 and in 2020 certainly share many similarities in character and causes, but their approaches were different. Back then, Russia and Turkey openly formed an alliance and launched a direct war against Armenia, when our homeland was attacked by Kemalist and Bolshevik forces. As a result, of course, Armenia lost its independence and our Fatherland was partitioned.

However, in the 2020 war there was no direct attack by Turkey or Russia as there was a hundred years ago, because this time the Russo-Turkish-Zionist alliance used and covertly supported its terrorist proxy state Azerbaijan to attack Armenia indirectly in order to resolve the Artsakh question in the way they wanted. That artificial and criminal state was created and artificially grown for precisely that purpose: to ensure our country never truly becomes independent, keeping us perpetually oppressed. The Russo-Turkish-Zionist tandem will do everything so that, instead of Armenia, their chained puppet Azerbaijan establishes total dominance in this region—turning the Republic of Armenia into “Western Azerbaijan.”

Therefore, as long as the state called Azerbaijan exists, Armenia can never be truly independent, secure, or peaceful. Consequently, merely liberating Artsakh again will not solve this problem. We will be able to neutralize this threat against our independent statehood completely if we utterly disarm Azerbaijan’s armed forces with irreversible blows and unprecedented methods, so that uprisings begin in Baku and Azerbaijan fragments from within, as Yugoslavia did—though for them it will be even more catastrophic. The future Armenian national state will be obliged to think and act in this direction if it truly intends to open the path toward an independent, united, and powerful Armenia.