This is an odd one. Overall, it has many flaws, like:
>Armenians thought their diasporas in the USA and France would give them a trump card because their numbers and activism would have more influence than Azeri oil money. But who remembers the Kardashians today?
I’m sorry what? Lol
But there are some interesting nuggets:
>Thirty years ago, I naively assumed Armenians and Georgians, the two traditionally Christian peoples of the South Caucasus, would be allies against the surrounding Muslims. A Georgian dissident put me right: “It is true the Armenians are Christians like us and that the Azeris are Muslims. But the Armenians are Armenians.”
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>The Young Turks’ slaughter of Anatolia’s Armenians in 1915 was a kind of genocidal Old Testament to Hitler’s New Testament of industrialised slaughter of Europe’s Jews.
Interesting symbolism, though as usual, it should say *Anatolia and Armenian Highlands*.
>As far back as 1919, Arthur Balfour noted the Western contempt for the natives’ quarrels in the Caucasus. What really mattered to great powers was oil: “If they want to cut their own throats why do we not let them do it … We will protect Batum, Baku, the railway between them, and the pipeline.”
…
>This helps to explain why North American Christian lobbyists are so silent about the recent disasters that have befallen the world’s first officially Christian society. It is not just that Armenian Christians’ ritual and theology goes against the grain of US Evangelical Protestantism; until very recently, Armenia’s foreign policy angered Washington and Brussels.
The very last part imho isn’t particularly true but the part about the difference in theology is a more interesting observation.
Also, lol
>Niko Pashinyan
And finally some good observations at the end:
>Small states can’t survive on sympathy alone.
…
>Neither the Old Testament state nor the first country to adopt the New Testament can rely on a West which has not just forgotten both, but increasingly hates being reminded of them.
I’ve always thought that the fact of Armenians surviving and then getting a state, must have been viewed as such a chore for many in Europe and later in the US. For many there, I think a region without Armenia and Armenians would be so much easier to deal with it.
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This is an odd one. Overall, it has many flaws, like:
>Armenians thought their diasporas in the USA and France would give them a trump card because their numbers and activism would have more influence than Azeri oil money. But who remembers the Kardashians today?
I’m sorry what? Lol
But there are some interesting nuggets:
>Thirty years ago, I naively assumed Armenians and Georgians, the two traditionally Christian peoples of the South Caucasus, would be allies against the surrounding Muslims. A Georgian dissident put me right: “It is true the Armenians are Christians like us and that the Azeris are Muslims. But the Armenians are Armenians.”
…
>The Young Turks’ slaughter of Anatolia’s Armenians in 1915 was a kind of genocidal Old Testament to Hitler’s New Testament of industrialised slaughter of Europe’s Jews.
Interesting symbolism, though as usual, it should say *Anatolia and Armenian Highlands*.
>As far back as 1919, Arthur Balfour noted the Western contempt for the natives’ quarrels in the Caucasus. What really mattered to great powers was oil: “If they want to cut their own throats why do we not let them do it … We will protect Batum, Baku, the railway between them, and the pipeline.”
…
>This helps to explain why North American Christian lobbyists are so silent about the recent disasters that have befallen the world’s first officially Christian society. It is not just that Armenian Christians’ ritual and theology goes against the grain of US Evangelical Protestantism; until very recently, Armenia’s foreign policy angered Washington and Brussels.
The very last part imho isn’t particularly true but the part about the difference in theology is a more interesting observation.
Also, lol
>Niko Pashinyan
And finally some good observations at the end:
>Small states can’t survive on sympathy alone.
…
>Neither the Old Testament state nor the first country to adopt the New Testament can rely on a West which has not just forgotten both, but increasingly hates being reminded of them.
I’ve always thought that the fact of Armenians surviving and then getting a state, must have been viewed as such a chore for many in Europe and later in the US. For many there, I think a region without Armenia and Armenians would be so much easier to deal with it.