How the West chooses the countries for velvet revolutions? Don’t expect you will ever join the EU: Pietro Shakarian

Dr. Arthur Khachikian, Stanford University PhD in Political Science, on geopolitical developments, the games of superpowers, geopolitical elites in the South Caucasus, the ambitions of the U.S., Europe, Israel and the collective West in general with regard to Armenia, and the ambitions of Nikol Pashinyan, the social and political functionaries supporting the RA authorities, Turkey, Azerbaijan, the history of Russia’s policy in the region – all these issues were discussed by Dr. Pietro Shakarian, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, former lecturer at the American Armenian University.

How is the West choosing the countries for „velvet revolutions?”

We don’t need America or Europe to tell us what to do; we can be democratic on our own.

Pashinyan and his supporters want to weaken the Armenian identity, to make Armenia more playable to Western interest.

The US and the West were certainly complacent in Azerbaijani’s activities against the Artsakh Armenians.

Azerbaijan and Turkey aren’t interested in establishing final peace.

Don’t expect that Ukraine, Georgia, or Armenia will ever join the EU; it’s unrealistic.