44-Day War: A Tale of Betrayal
Groong Week in Review – September 28, 2025
Topics
* Pashinyan’s rise and Western backing
* Breakdown of talks and secret meetings
* Failures and propaganda during the war
* Aftermath, revisionism, and political responsibility
Hosts
* Hovik Manucharyan
* Asbed Bedrossian
00:00 Into to show with Ararat Bedrossian and Ararat Manucharyan
00:37 Today’s main topic is September 27, and how we got there.
02:43 2018 – Color Revolution Velvet
05:49 The RAND paper “Extending Russia”
07:07 Who were the 2018 “revolutionaries”?
14:50 Why did Serge Sargsyan decide to resign, instead of clamp down on Pashinyan’s movement?
21:20 The Russian Factor
22:58 Was Serge too hardline on Artsakh, for the Russians?
23:41 The Lavrov Plan
24:27 Pashinyan denied and trashed the OSCE MG detailed plan to settle the conflict, claimed his own Point 0
29:14 The Dushanbe Elevator meeting
32:08 July 12, 2020
36:40 The 44-Day War
Episode 476 | Recorded: September 28, 2025
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❤from occupied usa. Thank you both, and I enjoy your show very much. It is a fair question to ask about Russia, or rather the Putin/Lavrov team's absence and failure to stand up to Turkish/NATO aggression! Libya, Syria destroyed! Then there is Ukraine, where the Putin/Lavrov team fiddled about in Sochi, making sure the Winter Olympics went off without a hitch. Meanwhile, letting the neo nazis coup in Kiev take place! Iran is no better!
Imbeciles
It's shocking how the people of Armenia can't see through Pashniyan. SILICON VALLEY has been the greatest propaganda tool in history even if it didn't begin that way. Brainwashing entire populations while letting a few dissenting opinions through creates the impression of free speech.
I recently watched a documentary on Nicol’s takeover of Armenia narrated by a pro Pashinyan on the platform called Tubi. He seemed like a bully who gained power.
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God Bless you both. You together do a great job at this very difficult time. You are very smart intellectual, we need you both, THANK YOU.
They were in Baku ,
In Armenia society is fuckin dumb !!!
If not RUSSIA !!
ARMENIA will DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God save ARMENIA
Why is it hard to keep Armenian government in checked? Khorenatsi's 'The Armenian History' will be the answered to all your questions.
I'm no fan of Nikol, however in military terms please consult with public relations officers in the US Pentagon or West Point military Academy and ask a simple question, How Long Does it Take to create or build a viable military force? Let me help you it usually takes, depending of how many branches, discard naval forces (Armenians were never a seafaring people) between 10-15 years. Now I respect the gentelmen of this show and those who condemn, rightfully, "Glir Kluh" Nikol however I like to ask what were the guys preceding Nikol doing in the decades prior to 2018? Here is a conundrum to solve, how many Prime Ministers or Presidents in Armenia were from the Diospora? Answer one big fat zero. Did you know Benjamin Netanyahu is the first Israeli born head of state of Israel, all before him were from the Jewish Diaspora. Point being made we as Armenians need to look in the mirror and learn how to excavate the truth of who did what before we move forward "Vor Mart elank"….
PS someone explain how Robert Kocharyan became president of Armenia with beloow avarage aasets, yet when he laft office he was worth $250 million?
Armenia is a being sent to the slaughter like Ukraine.
Thank you Ararat(Hovik) and Ararad(Asbed)☺❤ as much as it was a heartache!
2018 the scumbag fooled me too. There was corruption in Armenia. It seemed like a good thing. I was aware of how the "Arab Spring" had been happening and who was orchestrating it. But Initially, watching what was happening, reading comments, I refused to believe non Armenians who were commenting it was a color revolution. I didn't believe the same could have happened in Armenia. Not too long after i researched his cabinet members and found out they were from few different globalist 💩 organizations. (Sorry! can't help it)
Nigolo hand bandage! What an insult to the memory of Monte Melkonian May he rest in peace. 😢I Wander how many time he turned in his grave. 😭