This person has come out with a special proclamation “on the occasion of the holiday of Victory and Peace”, once again confirming that all these years Armenia has been celebrating May 9 not as the victory over fascism, which would look at the very least odd given the national glorification of Hitler’s accomplices Nzhdeh and Dro, but as the anniversary of the occupation of Shusha. Now Sargsyan pledges: “We will celebrate our triple holiday with the tricolor again, we will return our victories together as a nation, we will restore the glorious past of the Armenian army and the achievements of the national struggle squandered by traitors.”
That is, he promises a new war and an attempt to reoccupy Azerbaijani territories, appealing mainly to the “fighting spirit”, claiming that “in our just struggle against evil, GOD is with us and He is our pillar.” It was a Freudian slip: the inscription “God is with us” was on the belt buckles of Hitler’s Wehrmacht soldiers, including the “Armenian Legion”. It did not help them.
It is possible that Sargsyan is not very good at military heraldry. But he should know his own political biography. In 2016, when the post of president and supreme commander-in-chief was held not by “traitor Nikol” but by Sargsyan, Armenia organized a provocation and… lost the Leletepe heights. Azerbaijan then carried out some “reconnaissance by fire” and made a key breach in the Armenian defense. What did Sargsyan do? He dismissed his friend, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, and several other military officials, but did not even try to recapture the lost height.
Then during the 44-day war, or rather, 44 days of continuous defeat of the Armenian army, Sargsyan never tried to take up arms, to dust off his past as a “field commander” and go to the front line. He sent Ohanyan to Shusha when it was all but over. Knowing perfectly well that in the first Karabakh war all the combat work was done by regular Russian military units fighting on the Armenian side, from the 366th regiment to the Pskov division of the Airborne Troops, while Azerbaijan simply did not have its own army, and Armenian “field commanders” were valiantly fighting civilians. Now Azerbaijan has brought forward a truly modern, professional and very motivated army. Consequently, Serzhikik, like the coward that he is, prefers to “keep a low profile”. Wagging one’s tongue is easy. Definitely easier than going under bullets.
And here is a final, very human touch. The year is 2012. The Armenian invaders promise to put the Khojaly airport, called by them the “Stepanakert” airport, into operation. Sargsyan promises to take the first flight there on May 9. Azerbaijan warns that it will not allow anyone to enter its airspace without permission, including the then occupied territories. And Sargsyan, who realizes that even “air force one” can be shot down or, worse, forcibly landed and then the Armenian President would be reminded of his complicity in the destruction of Khojaly and of his own line: “Before Khojaly, the Azerbaijanis thought that they were joking with us, they thought that the Armenians were people who could not raise their hand against the civilian population. We needed to put a stop to all that,” immediately backpedals and says that he was misunderstood and he is not going to fly anywhere.
Now this coward and war criminal has once again grown bold and is trying to fight in the internal Armenian arena. But what is he going to do if he succeeds at home? Azerbaijan of 2024 is not the Azerbaijan of the early nineties. There will be no new territorial conquests, much less a “triple holiday with the tricolor” and the “tetris” rag, but their third defeat is guaranteed. So are new heavy political concessions. But if Sargsyan wants more for himself personally and, seeking traveling companions on his journey to hell, tries to gain public support, the choice is up to the citizens of Armenia itself.
