I'm not gonna call propaganda because I do not know for sure but I don't really remember any mention of Pakistani special forces during TV interviews. I do know we had volunteers from Pakistan but I don't think any foreign special forces were involved aside from Turkish ones in an advisory capacity. Not like Armenians didn't have help either, you know the deal about Syrian mercenaries? Apparently Armenia had them too - courtesy of Russia. It was revealed by one of the Syrian human rights watchdogs in an article shitting on foreign involvement in Syria.
Either way, Armenia buying up weapons from France and India is interesting because it comes right after Aliyev and Pashinyan's meeting. Wonder what went down behind closed doors there - did we just jointly agree to spit in Russia's face or something?
Russia-Iran axis is increasingly toxic to the west. Deep down even the (pro Iran peace overture) Obama-Rhodes faction of democrat party are reconciled to the failure (and really their part in making it worse, but thats long story)....thats the faction after all in control of Biden right now.
Its why armenia wont approach China either for this stuff. Israel is close with AZ too....and provided it significant arms.
This has all put immense pressure on Armenian lobby here on this side of the pond....as in the end a huge amount of remittances to Armenia come from this continent....and its USD forex that matters in end geopolitically, not Russian ruble.
So Pashinyan and broader armenian establishment are the cart tethered to and pulled by this.
They have tough job dealing with the "greater armenia" forces among them and broader angst in armenian population as it is. The main reason armenian establishment stupidly let pass the best deal they ever got from Azerbaijan in late 1990s peace-efforts.
So moving to Russia + Iran stuff will be an "all in" move as seen by the west and will come with penalties on Armenian remittance economy.
This is why I judge armenians to be making overtures as they are to AZ+TR to bide their time in interim but at same time arming up where possible from entities like France and India.
This keeps all finance to Armenian economy from North America lubricated as possible. France is bit of maverick within NATO to begin with (and has its own backdrop of relations with Russia/USSR) and India is friendly to US and West.
So basically US doesn't have to directly look like its involved in situation similar to Georgia earlier which attracted Russian retribution during the Bush era itself. Israel can't be directly tapped here (Jewish lobby seriously abhors armenian narrative of ww1 coming into competition with Holocaust as a genocide etc).....so France and India make sense to be the intermediaries of taking more of the armenian establishment away from Russia-Iran axis relatively speaking. There is huge Armenian population within Russia of course too, so its complicated stuff in end for tiny country....especially to try dictate.
Kartal and others are correct, only way to solve this is Armenia makes full normalised relations with AZ + Turkiye. Reality (of your population size, country size, geography) prevails against delusional exceptionalism and/or excessive victimisation narrative. It is too small of country to shape the neighbourhood, it has to live as a neighbour.
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