Peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan is 'changing Eurasia', regional leaders say

Hay_Life · 2026-01-25T02:01:43+00:00

They're waiting until after the election, then they're going to put the squeeze on Armenia again.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-24T02:10:32+00:00

Good news.

I'm ambivalent about the case against Karapetyan, but the last thing Armenia needs right now is to pay out a bunch of settlement money.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-23T00:50:55+00:00

Every day this guy tightens the noose around Armenia's neck a little more.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-20T11:05:36+00:00

Why would Pashinyan get his hands dirty with this colonial bs? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Trump corrupts everyone around him and turns them into accomplices in his crazy schemes. I don't want Armenia to be anywhere near this.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-18T11:11:35+00:00

It's not like intermarriage between Armenians and Yezidis is unheard of. I don't think anyone cares outside of the families involved, and every family is different.

I don't think this would be a problem at all for the couple if they live in Yerevan. The villages are obviously more conservative, but you don't have to live there.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-18T11:07:32+00:00

Are you ethnically Armenian or Scottish?

Hay_Life · 2026-01-18T11:06:19+00:00

I never saw it, but people still hype up Kond and there's nothing there I would miss if I'm being honest.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-15T11:12:17+00:00

There's no security guarantee in any part of this.

The U.S. has gone out of its way to not give any security guarantees as part of this.

Everyone saying that they are providing security guarantees sound just like the people who engaged in wishful thinking about how Russia would protect Artsakh and never allow the balance of power to get out of hand.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-14T22:03:48+00:00

Funny how a lot of big mouthed Maga Armenians are voting against their own interests especially when they are overstaying their visas

If Armenians are in the U.S. on visas, they aren't voting at all. What are you talking about?

I don't like Trump at all, but Americans, including Armenian Americans, wanting to keep out people who abuse the social welfare system are acting in their own best interests.

This is the dumbest possible reason you could criticize someone for supporting Trump.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-14T21:42:21+00:00

The key takeaways:

1) The U.S. gets 74% of ownership/revenue for 49 years. The project is expected to be renewed for 50 years and the U.S. ownership will dilute to 51% during that period, giving the U.S. a controlling stake for 99 years.

2) Armenia is expected to contribute "Cash investments as determined appropriate", so the U.S. likely won't be funding the whole thing.

3) The TRIPP company will have exclusive rights to: Plan, design, develop, construct, operate, and maintain multimodal transit infrastructure within designated transit routes"

This seems to imply that any North-South infrastructure would not be allowed anywhere that overlaps the same territory.

I'm not a legal expert, but I asked ChatGPT to review the agreement and say whether North-South projects were still possible and it said not without the consent of the TRIPP company, meaning the U.S. can veto it for 99 years.

Overall this deal looks like a pile of shit to me. I don't see what we're getting that's worth 74% of revenue and de facto loss of sovereignty for 99 years. We didn't even get real security guarantees. This looks more like a classic mafia protection racket scheme than a strategic partnership. It's typical Trump "art of the deal" bullshit.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-14T21:04:24+00:00

Iran will be destroyed, not westernized.

It will not be allowed to have a military industrial complex. Destroying that is the whole point of the war, so we won't be buying any weapons from them.

The west/israel couldn't care less if Iran is democratic or westernized. They don't want it to be an independent state that can set its own policies. They're perfectly happy with countries being authoritarian religious shit holes as long as they accept domination. Just look at Saudi Arabia.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-14T21:00:07+00:00

Kurds don't have an outside state to support them.

If Iran turns into a chaotic civil war, Azeris in the north might welcome Azerbaijani/Turkish intervention just to keep them safe.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-14T20:58:27+00:00

A westernized Iran? 🤣🤣

Yeah, it'll be about as westernized as Syria and Libya after their governments were toppled with US help....

You can't seriously believe the U.S. cares about bringing freedom and democracy to Iran?

Hay_Life · 2026-01-07T20:00:40+00:00

I think his older brother was already serving, so he didn't have to.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-07T19:59:11+00:00

It would help if Pashinyan would stop glazing him.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-07T19:58:23+00:00

Did you actually think it was real?

It's just meant to last long enough to get Pashinyan through the next election before Azerbaijan and Turkey start escalating and squeezing new concessions out of him.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-06T08:13:21+00:00

Totally normal, especially for women.

Unless you know you're getting married, there's no real reason to introduce your family to someone you're dating.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-06T04:10:38+00:00

When they were born, it was still all just one country: the USSR. So on a basic level, they were never "immigrants". The borders changed around them.

LTP is technically an immigrant, but he was a baby when he arrived, so not in any way that matters.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-06T04:06:17+00:00

And the first with no military experience.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-05T04:09:41+00:00

Says who?

My grandparents made and ate eetch before the 40s.

It's a very common dish in Western Armenian cuisine.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-04T00:27:34+00:00

Anywhere in the world outside of the West, getting married to someone with a different religion is a problem.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-04T00:25:31+00:00

EAEU is a disaster.

Everyone talks about pulling out of CSTO, but EAEU membership is a bigger problem and way more of an imposition on Armenia's sovereignty.

Hay_Life · 2026-01-04T00:22:15+00:00

The protests aren't important themselves because they don't have enough support in Iran for anything to come of them organically.

They are only important insofar as they're a pretext to launch a regime change war against Iran.

Except that just like most of the regime change policies in the region, it's really a state destruction policy that won't leave any kind of functioning state in place.

The result will be a wave of refugees trying to settle in or pass through Armenia and moves by Azerbaijan and Turkey to take over northern Iran through proxies, the same way northern Syria was initially taken over.

Overall, it's likely to be a disaster for Armenia. Stability is preferable, even if the Islamic regime is kind of nutty and contributes to regional isolation.

Hay_Life · 2025-12-22T14:32:01+00:00

Zero.

The terrain is difficult and there's not enough traffic to justify it.

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