ArmInfo.The current Armenian-Azerbaijani problems are not limited to Armenia, Azerbaijan or even the South Caucasus. They are a small element of the Big Game component. Hrachya Arzumanyan, an expert on national security and defense issues, Doctor of Political Sciences, expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
"One can come to such a conclusion even with a superficial analysis. And I absolutely do not understand for what reasons, based on what realities, our negotiators consider themselves able to separate the problem of Artsakh from the "Armenian issue." The latter, by the way, has not gone away and continues remain part of the international agenda. But in Yerevan, for some reason, they think that it can be separated from the processes taking place in the Greater Middle East," he stressed.
Meanwhile, according to Arzumanyan, geopolitical realities leave absolutely no room for the realization of Armenian bureaucratic dreams, namely, to achieve peace with excessively aggressive neighbors in the conditions of the transformation of all surrounding regions into a theater of military operations, albeit with varying degrees of intensity.
The expert considers the latest murder of an Armenian soldier, as well as Aliyev's threats, as a continuation of the logic of Azerbaijan's military pressure policy on Armenia over the past two decades. And the fact that Yerevan stubbornly tries not to understand the essence of this policy, preferring to be in a state of hopes for peace separated from the realities, in his opinion, is exclusively Yerevan's problem.
Referring directly to the Artsakh case of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflicts, the expert noted that there is no lowering of the international bar on the issue of the status of Artsakh, and there has not been. Moreover, after the peculiar resolution of the Artsakh problem by Russia and Turkey in the fall of 2020, it was the geopolitical processes performed by other international players that demonstrated completely different realities. The realities from which, according to Arzumanyan, Putin and Erdogan were cut off in their assessments of the situation. Realities within which it suddenly became clear that neither the problem of Artsakh nor the "Armenian issue" is closed, and Artsakh is still waiting for its status.
"And it is precisely within the framework of these geopolitical realities that Ankara, Moscow and, accordingly, Baku are forced to act. Hence, Aliyev's next manifestations of the threat of the use of force, and its use in the form of the murder of our serviceman. They do so in order to persuade Yerevan to abandon the approaches that the international community is already ready to form and accept, and which have nothing in common with the approaches of Turkey and the Russian Federation," the expert summed up.