"Fact" daily writes:
Today, the relative peace surrounding Armenia after the war is deceptive. It is not a sign of peace, but simply shows the fragility of the previously existing system of international relations based on international treaties, limited interests and mutual promises. However, Washington delivered what could be a final blow to international law. Political scientist Aghvan Poghosyan writes about this in the analysis prepared for "Past", which also states: "This was also expressed in the words of the president of the superpower. "International law is unnecessary." Naturally, this is not a scandalous slip of the tongue, but a death signal for the transitory era of the international system. A typical example was the final depopulation of Artsakh.
International law is no longer merely in crisis, but in its death throes, and its chief executioners are those who have posed as its architects and guardians for a century. In recent decades, the West and especially the United States have methodically cut off the branch on which all the small powers were sitting. Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran - each "exceptional case" of the use of force, under a reasonable pretext, destroyed another brick in the foundation of the UN Charter.
And then came the apotheosis, Operation Indisputable Resolve in Venezuela. It was not based on a UN Security Council sanction or self-defense. The whole world watched the cynical arrest of the head of state, under the background of Washington's fight against illegal drug trafficking. And Trump's "power makes the world" statements became another step in the public framing and whitewashing of crimes, a long-standing practice among the powerful. Each such incident is not an isolated tragedy in the distance. By the way, Moscow has been insisting on the same thing for two decades, pointing out the dangers of the secession of Kosovo and, later, the predatory operation in Iraq. The result is known. Realizing that its interests can be protected only by force, Moscow first returned Crimea, and now it is trying to push NATO out of Ukraine.
In other words, when the "citadel of democracy" solemnly declares that its own morality is the only thing that matters, Washington allows everyone else to do the same. For example, Ilham Aliyev also learned this lesson. international law does not work, and power decides everything. By the way, his "elder brother", Recep Erdogan, has been acting on this principle for decades. They have already seen how the world swallows the occupation of Artsakh, the expulsion of 120 thousand Armenians and the occupation of the sovereign territories of Armenia without any consequences. Now they see that they can act more boldly. Seizure of oil pipelines?
Just threatening the sovereignty of Venezuela or Denmark? Why not, if possible? And so, cornered Armenia watches alone as Azerbaijan and Turkey, still well fed, review their next steps. Our "peace treaty," that hard-won piece of paper from Washington, was immediately reduced to parchment when its supposed guarantor declared international law non-binding. Meanwhile, Yerevan has abandoned the CSTO, and the West offers only "monitoring" of the situation.
However, the fate of Venezuela and its president clearly shows that the promises of the powerful have no value if their national interests prevail over any agreement tomorrow. We are left alone with the "right of the strong" in a world where the only real sovereignty is guaranteed by a strong army and the will to resist. This is the bitter irony that makes one's heart sink. We are not just victims of a new, savage world order. We are its co-authors, willingly and fanatically destroying our own few remaining strongholds. We thought the West was applauding our "democratic reforms", but they just rolled their eyes and folded their hands behind their backs. We are not welcomed there and will not be taken seriously. Our geography already justifies the verdict. Turkey, a strategic member of NATO, will forever surpass Armenia on the Western scales of Washington and Brussels.
And what can we offer? Only their anger at former allies and their willingness to become another enabler of Russophobia in the region. But to be an expendable tool in someone else's game is to be doomed to betrayal when Washington's or Moscow's strategy changes. Our current "Western choice" does not build security, but paves the way to political oblivion, where we can be exploited, but not protected. In this desperate attempt to escape from the past, we make a fatal mistake. We are sadly rejecting the CSTO, portraying ourselves as victims, forgetting that for years we ourselves rejected its mechanisms, sabotaging our common defense.
We are destroying the last official structure that still considered our security as part of collective security. And we do it at the most inconvenient moment, when the world is divided into poles, and each country is looking for its own "team" for survival. Today, however, it is Moscow, our historic but now rejected ally, who offers the world the very alternative we cry out to the "might makes right" version. The stories of Russia are clear and clear: this is a criticism."
Details in today's issue of "Past" daily
