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Armenia is continuing to signal its intention to move closer to the EU and away from Russia ahead of contentious elections. But will they be able to escape their economic and military ties to Russia? And what can they do to strengthen ties with Europe?
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00:00 Introduction
01:24 Armenia’s Break from Russia
05:31 European Political Community
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The European Union promised prosperity. Instead it delivered stagnation, crushing debt, and a green bureaucracy that punishes workers while industry flees overseas. Energy policy has been a catastrophe. By shutting down reliable power and bowing to Russian pipelines for years, Brussels made the continent cold, poor, and dependent. Now families cannot pay heating bills. Factories are closing. Farmers are in open revolt.
Migration policy is a moral and logistical disaster. Open borders without integration have fueled crime, social tension, and a rising far right that Brussels pretends does not exist. The EU lectures member states on democracy while crushing any nation that refuses its dictates.
This is not leadership. This is a failed cartel of out of touch elites sacrificing European citizens on the altar of political fantasy. Either the Union wakes up and serves its people, or it deserves to collapse under the weight of its own arrogance.
WTF are you talking about? Sold out half Israeli Pashinyan gave our lands to Azerbaijan and removed Armenia's identity "Masis and Ararat" from Armenian stamp!
Russian partnership: I won't defend you, I will warn you. 😂😂😂😂😂 Armenia smart up.
Armenian brothers join UE, you are very welcomed here 🫡 🇦🇲🇪🇺
armenia, ukraine, serbia, turkey, georgia EU is not interested. Canada is our future member
Enough of Russia selling off Armenian land to the Turks. The Soviet Russia forcibly carved up and gave away Armenian lands to the Turks as a gift.
What about Anatolia being freed from the Turkish invaders and returning to it's Christian heritage?
We lost territories because Pashinyan had given the former school teacher turned DEFENSE MINISTER orders to stand down and retreat. Only way that would be done is locking up the actual defense ministers and putting his puppet in place.
Europe wants to provoke a second Ukraine situation for Russia
2:17 Karabakh is not ethnically armenian, it was long time ago captured from Azerbaijan in 1920 by Russia
Guys the elections ahead are one of the most important in years in June 7, pls share awareness abt it that Armenians should vote for pro EU candidates, I would love to see our country free and European!!! Unfortunately Russia is investing billions for cyber attacks on Armenian citizensand in political circles, its hard to fight against the misinformation and propaganda!!
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Armenia is a very interesting case which basically no one is reporting in detail. At least not the domestic affairs, just its foreign policy.
After Azerbaijan took over Nagorno-Karabakh, more than 100k ethnic armenians flee to Armenia proper. All the world reported about the brief war for Nagorno-Karabakh, but I saw no one reporting for the social impact of the armenian refugees in Armenia: how did the armenian State manage them? What kind of economic and social impacts? And how will they impact the elections?
Then in 2024 ther was the movement of Galstanyan: who is he? What kind of political views? Who his sponsors are? And what degree of power does the Armenian Church have in the domestic politics?
Then soon after I read something about a failed coup by a faction trained by the russians.
Then in 2025 there was the case of the tycoon Samvel Karapetyan and the attempt to nationalize Electric Networks of Armenia: again, who is he? Why really was he arrested? Which affiliation does he have?
After that, Karapetyan founded a political movement.
What's happening in Armenia? How all these events combine? What are the main factions and powers in Armenia? And how all these events should be understood with the upcoming elections?
I guess a comprehensive video about this all is due before the elections.
Why Armenia? Why don't you admit Turkey to the EU first?
Why isn’t Greenland colored in? Lol 5:58
Fake news
pashinian is a loyal dog of putin he'll use Armenia and Armenians as a "trojan horse" in Europe. I'm not sure about a statement that "pashinian imprisoned pro-russian opposition" cause 90% of Armenian parties are just fake opposition but I can tell you for sure that pashinian imprisoned his real opposition which was pro-Armenain and pro-Western it's National Democratic Alliance (Bever) members and disqualified this party from elections in putin-style. pashinian has received a letter from a leader of armed group Nairi Hunanian who made execution of Armenian parliament at 1999 (Armenian mafia from Russia that serves to Russian mafia basicly Kremlin's dogs) after what Armenian independence come to the end and once again Armenia have become Russia's colony till nowdays. You're doing great job by deceiving uninformed EU and US population about Armenia or yourself is uninformed but who cares about facts anyway you're doing your Youtube thing and getting enough money to sleep in peace cause people are dying everyday and who cares that even more people will die right?
The relationship between Russia and Armenia is like forced married
When did people get scared of leaders who are smarter than they are? I like my leaders smart. In fact I like my friends smart too, I don’t mind being the dumbest person in the room. It’s like tennis: it lifts your game 🙂
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Armenia,Georgia and Azerbaijan in the EU would fix so many problems in the region
you guys need to study some human rights and stop beeing a anti Russia propaganda channel.
This is another strategic mistake for Europe. It will higher the chances of a military confrontation with Russia, instead of lowering them.
Armenia gonna be annexed by Azerbaijan.
Armenia is much further away to Europe then turkey… and so many had joked for decades turkey is not in Europe … 😂😂😂
Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaidjan and Turkye should become associated states of the European Union as soon as possible and at some point in the future, all of them must join the EU at once.
Unsurprising. Russia completely abandoned their CSTO obligations when Azerbaijan attacked Armenia.
They probably jealous of the Ukraine war
Armenia world's first Christian country is welcome as EU member candidate 😊…they have to remember though "one can't serve two masters"
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Tragically, brushes invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the ongoing disaster there, combined with the rest of the oxygen being sucked up by the Israeli invasion of Gaza, means that the vast majority of the western world never heard about the terrible war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed by other by John against the Armenian ethnic people of the nagorno region. Basically the Russians pretty much ignored the Armenians and their obligation by tree to help defend the Armenian interest. They allow the azaris to get away with whatever they wanted to.
That was the first brutal understanding from the people in Armenia that that could no longer depend on the Russians for anything. In the meantime a zone that had been ethnically Armenian 4,000 years was effectively wiped out. Well the death toll wasn't horrifically high, once they managed to shove the people out they pulled an ethnic cleansing worthy of the Bosnian serbs. Wiping out churches in all sorts of cultural history from many centuries. It's all gone now.
At the same time seeing the Russians managed to slowly use the mechanism of democracy to completely take over Georgia leaving Armenia completely surrounded by enemies, means that they don't have any choice but to turn to the west.