Nobody can rely on Russia for anything. And that includes Russians.
Last week, the Russian foreign ministry said it had summoned the Armenian ambassador for a “difficult” conversation over what it described as a string of unfriendly steps, citing a decision by Yerevan to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine for the first time, with Pashinyan’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, making an official visit to Kyiv. Armenia has also withdrawn its representative to the Moscow-led CSTO military alliance of which it is a member, having previously accused the bloc of failing to act on its requests for support after Azerbaijan launched an offensive across the border last September.
With Russia allied with North Korea, you know they're desperate now and can't defend their backyard.
Armenia has a rough road ahead, hopefully their concessions to the Azeris is enough and more fighting doesn’t break out.
I don’t think the Azeris will ever stop until they have a land bridge connecting them to Turkey, then after that until Armenia culture is gone.
Pashinyan fucked that chance up soundly, Azerbaijan is likely to get everything they want and face limited consequences. His dithering and mistakes were a masterclass in serving your entire ass up on a platter. Here’s a foreign policy article studying it: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683857.2022.2111111
No shit lmao
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