Taras Kuzio
Former Soviet republics have a penchant for conspiracy theories, preferring to blame national minorities, antagonistic neighbors, and foreigners for protests, revolutions, economic crises, and military defeats. Conspiracies against the nation are all the rage in Armenia which is desperately searching for the ‘guilty’ party behind its military defeats and loss of territories.
Armen Grigoryan, Secretary of Armenian Security Council recently blamed Russia for taking control of and transferring Karabakh to Azerbaijan. This conspiracy fails to consider more pertinent factors behind Armenia’s military defeats that are blatantly evident in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Russia, which three years ago claimed it had the ‘second best army in the world,’ was unable to defeat Ukraine because its military training is still Soviet, and its military equipment is of very poor quality.
The Armenian army relied on Russian (i.e., Soviet) training and Russia (i.e., Soviet) military equipment. Becoming an independent state in 1991, Armenia chose to tie itself militarily to Russia. In contrast, Azerbaijan’s army was trained by NATO members and its military equipment was primarily Western, especially Israeli, and Turkish.
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