Armenia’s nuclear future and Aliyev’s threats

Armenia needs to buy BrahMos Missiles or something from India of the same equivalent, not just 25 but 250 give them regret moving inch but being a cowards you will lose your country and then wonder why

We don’t have a government, forget that.

Eric Hacopian’s latest Insights episode (the one analyzing Rosatom’s nuclear proposals and Aliyev’s party-congress speech) continues a familiar pattern: sharp criticism of the Pashinyan government paired with a nationalist framing that treats compromise or border realism as moral failure or “Finlandization.”
The core of the critique is straightforward. Armenia just suffered a catastrophic military defeat in 2020 and the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh in 2023. Thousands of young Armenian conscripts died; the army that had been mythologized for decades was exposed as poorly led, poorly equipped, and outmatched by Turkish operational support, drones, and Azerbaijani firepower. In that context, rhetoric that keeps the maximalist emotional temperature high—while the people who actually live under the threat of Azerbaijani artillery and the economic consequences of isolation have to live with the results—carries real costs.
Hacopian is an Armenian-American political consultant who spent most of his career in California Democratic politics and moved to Armenia in 2017.now he is on Russian Oligarch Robert Kocharian’s Previous Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan’s payroll! There is no public record of him having served in the U.S. military or in the Armenian armed forces. That does not disqualify analysis or commentary. Plenty of civilian analysts have valuable things to say. It does, however, make the posture of comfortable, persistent nationalist agitation more conspicuous when the people who paid the price in 2020–2023 were overwhelmingly young men from Armenia and Artsakh, not diaspora commentators or their children.
He has himself written about the problem of “summer soldiers and sunshine patriots” in the diaspora who demanded continuation of the war when it was not their sons going to the front. The same standard applies to anyone, including him, who treats the post-defeat government’s attempt to prioritize the internationally recognized territory of the Republic of Armenia (“Real Armenia”) as ideological betrayal rather than a grim recognition of military reality. After losing most of the territory held since 1994 and then losing the rest in 2023, refusing to accept the current map is not free. It keeps the country in a permanent “neither war nor peace” posture that Aliyev exploits.
Hacopian is right about several concrete things: the 2020 war was heavily shaped by Turkish command and operators, Aliyev’s recent speech contains classic “stab in the back” language and open threats (including the line about a victory flag in central Yerevan), and the Armenian military of the preceding decades was not the competent force many assumed. Those points do not require, and are not strengthened by, a broader nationalist project that continues to inflate expectations the state has already proven it cannot meet under current conditions. The young men who fought and died do not need more commentary that treats their defeat as a temporary ideological setback to be overcome by renewed maximalism from people who were never in the trenches.

I wonder why aliyev addresses his own party's congress in English.

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How about building one big 1000w nuclear plant by Russia for country’s grid and build one or two modular units by US or S. Korea exclusively for the data centers? This will support diversification policy of Armenia.

Thank you!!

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How can you Armenians living in the USA act so strongly against the current Armenian government? You don't even live in Armenia, so how can you oppose the government like this? God forbid if war breaks out, would you actually go to the battlefield? Stop spreading misinformation about the current Armenian government.

I wish you would go deeper to counter aliyev and list all the betrayals of Armenias "allies" (s300, electronic warfare, missiles on jets etc) and also me tioned kamakazi drone operators from south of lebanon.

Since it took this long for Eric to wake the hell up, i would not hold my breath on Pashinian waking up ever.

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Thanks to Pashinyan and Aliyev for established peace in South Caucasus

Thank you Eric!