Brussels is now largely “dancing” to Paris’ musette, while France has its own, almost Napoleonic plans for the South Caucasus. The Elysee Palace, cashing in on the corruptibility of Nikol Pashinyan and Co., has in fact already turned Armenia into its neo-colony, Russian political scientist and head of the expert-analytical network PolitRus, Vitaly Arkov, noted while commenting on the inability of the US and other Western countries to accept the new realities that have emerged in the South Caucasus after Azerbaijan fully regained its territorial integrity and sovereignty, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting AzerTac.
“There is a concept of a ‘collective West’ and the states representing it quite often act together, albeit not always. Firstly, this happens on a voluntary basis (there have been quite a few cases when the US “bend” its European conditional partners) and, secondly, those taking part in “political bullying” have different goals. If we are talking about the European Union, the replacement of the “iron” Chancellor Angela Merkel by the “softie” Olaf Scholz resulted in Germany losing its former influence in the EU when Brussels was “dancing” to Berlin’s rauschpfeife. Poland, which had been dreaming of dominance in Europe, has failed to seize the initiative despite all its “wishes” and efforts, as well as the assistance of the United States. Perhaps, only for the time being though. However, the fact is that Brussels is now “dancing” to Paris’ musette. And France, and we have already mentioned, has its own, almost Napoleonic plans for the South Caucasus. As we can see, the Elysee Palace, cashing in on the corruptibility of Nikol Pashinyan and Co., has actually turned Armenia into its neo-colony,” the expert noted.
According to him, this, in fact, was one of the non-public goals of the Eastern Partnership project, in which many independent states of the former USSR were deceived into. The European Union had no intention of accepting them into its ranks whatsoever, but was hoping to make them politically dependent donors for its own economy. And this know-how was not created by European elites – the United States has long been using similar methods in relation to the whole world.
“The leadership of Azerbaijan considers such a format of interaction impossible – neither with the European Union as a whole nor with its members separately. Not even with the USA, which we will talk about later. Baku is offering either a partnership on equal terms, as is the case with Russia, Türkiye, China or Iran, or minimal interaction until the moment the European Union realizes that its policy of neo-colonialism will not work in relation to Azerbaijan. From an economic point of view, Armenia is the least attractive of all countries in the region, while Azerbaijan, on the contrary, is the most delicious “piece of the pie”, which the greedy European and especially French bourgeoisies have already opened their mouths for. But they will leave having got nothing for their pains. Or they will barely escape if they try to inflate a new military conflict with Baku with the help of puppets in Yerevan,” the expert said.
As for the United States, according to Vitaly Arkov, there are three goals here. “Let’s start with the big ones. First, the goal is to squeeze Russia out of the South Caucasus, which has historically been a zone of its geopolitical interests. Secondly, the growing power of Iran is a source of concern for many of its opponents both in the Middle East and overseas, because Tehran has become one of the pillars (along with Moscow and Beijing) on which the new multipolar world order and the global confrontation between the conventional East and the conventional West rests. Conditional because Japan or South Korea, as well as Australia, are geographically more East, but economically and politically they are definitely West,” the Russian political scientist emphasized.
In this context, the pundit drew attention to the “historically understandable and long-term visionary rapprochement between Azerbaijan and Iran.” According to him, an attempt was made to artificially set the two neighboring countries, two affiliated peoples against each other, as President Ilham Aliyev correctly noted at a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi. This rapprochement is ruining the plans of the forces mentioned above, the expert believes, and the goal is to prevent this in every possible way, including by exerting multi-level pressure on Baku using large puppets in Brussels and smaller ones in Yerevan.
Arkov went on to say that, thirdly, talking about the US objectives in the context of the policy in the South Caucasus, there is a flirtation with the Armenian community of the Democratic Party, which expects both to stay in the White House after the presidential elections on November 5, 2024 and to secure a majority in the House of Representatives of the Congress (elections are also due on November 5, 2024). “Right now, the Republican Party has the majority. Elections of 33 of 100 members of the Senate will also be held on that day. The Democrats now have a majority there, but the policies of Joseph Biden administration, which have led to serious economic problems in many American households, threaten to erupt into a protest vote. Voters of Armenian descent (as well as a number of other ethnic groups) are among the most active voters. Moreover, their numbers are particularly high in the states where, according to polls, either the Republican candidates are in the lead or the share of those undecided is high. Therefore, the loud statements of the White House, the State Department and the Democrats in the US Congress about the support for Armenia and, at the same time, the absolutely groundless “attacks” on Azerbaijan are designed to solve purely domestic American pre-election issues,” the analyst summed up.
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