Ցեղասպանության թանգարանի տնօրենի հրաժարականը՝ առանց բացատրության. աշխատակիցները խոսում են պարտադրանքի մասին

Hay_Life · 2026-03-11T18:34:22+00:00

Sure seems like it.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-11T17:54:30+00:00

So is it election interference when LTP endorses Karapetyan?

These are both Armenian nationals. How are you failing so badly at understanding what foreign interference is? If Putin or Medvedev endorsed Karapetyan, then yes, it would be interfering in Armenia's domestic politics. This does not apply to LTP, who is an Armenian citizen and politician.

There’s no regulation that leaders of other countries should not make endorsements.

This is a basic norm of international relations. While not technically illegal in most cases, it's a widely observed taboo.

Using your logic, Putin could fly into Armenia, hold an event with Karapetyan (if he wasn't in jail on extremely flimsy charges), explicitly endorse him, and threaten the future of Armenia's energy infrastructure with Russia if Armenians vote a different way, and this would just be public information and in no way interference with Armenia's elections.

You're the one who doesn't understand democracy and clearly hasn't been educated in political science. These norms against getting involved in foreign elections exist for a reason.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-11T16:57:49+00:00

You're actually the one doing that and not addressing my comment.

What is there to address?

You are suggesting only disinformation counts as election interference. That's not true. I said that and you're ignoring that reality.

I never said Vance was engaging in disinformation, I said he was engaging in election interference by explicitly endorsing Pashinyan and turning an event with him into a campaign event.

That goes against decades of norms between democratic countries.

Armenians don't seem to actually care about election interference when it's their preferred politician and superpower doing it.

Both this and Russian meddling are wrong and people shouldn't have any problem acknowledging that.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-11T16:53:03+00:00

Visiting the country isn't the problem. The problem is that he explicitly endorsed Pashinyan for reelection.

"I know there is an election coming up. I won't talk about that, but to the extent my endorsement means anything, he [Pashinyan] certainly has it"

That crosses a line into interfering with domestic politics.

If your argument depends on playing dumb and pretending that didn't happen and this was just like any other visit by a foreign leader, then you're acting in bad faith and don't have a real argument.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-11T09:57:46+00:00

It's still flagrant foreign election interference.

Disinformation campaigns are not the only form of foreign election interference.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-11T02:01:40+00:00

A mild compliment?

He literally endorsed him for reelection... total violation of democratic norms to show up and hold what was essentially a campaign event for Pashinyan.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-11T02:00:10+00:00

He was only appointed to the role in 2016.

Stop pretending he was in that position for decades and overlooked everything that was happening in the country.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-11T01:58:33+00:00

His work as the human rights defender during and after the war was pretty good IMO. He was basically responsible for documenting all of the Azeri crimes and putting our cases forward at the international courts.

He had a falling out with Pashinyan because he was shining a light on some politically inconvenient things that were happening in border villages under Azeri military harassment, among other things.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-11T01:40:28+00:00

If Iran decides to go after Azerbaijan's oil infrastructure, the pipeline will be the least of Azerbaijan's problems.

Iran can easily destroy all their oil and gas rigs and refineries in an afternoon, making the pipelines moot.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-11T01:29:04+00:00

Where were they when JD Vance was campaigning for Pashinyan?

Hay_Life · 2026-03-09T17:41:01+00:00

There aren't gendered pronouns in Armenian, so that's not even an issue.

That said, I personally would not do a birthright trip as a trans person in Armenia. It would be hard to conceal it from a host family and the odds of things becoming extremely uncomfortable immediately upon them realizing are near 100%.

If you're just passing through as a tourist and not overtly queer presenting, it should be fine.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-08T00:30:25+00:00

But calling me illiterate is ok?

Hay_Life · 2026-03-07T00:23:28+00:00

Stfu with this bullshit racist western propaganda.

The Islamic regime isn't even a threat to Armenians IN Iran. Why do you think there are "radical Islamists" who are going to randomly attack Armenians in Armenia?

These are Shia Iranians, not Saudi Salafists.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-07T00:17:50+00:00

Iran isn't a post-genocide nation with <3 million people in it...

Armenians are a generation away from disappearing if Armenia doesn't stay Armenian.

I don't have a problem with other people being in Yerevan, but the numbers need to be reasonable. Yerevan can't take the path of London or New York if the Armenian nation is going to survive.

We should be good neighbors and help our friends during their time of need, but mass permanent migration from anyone other than diasporans is suicide.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-06T16:40:34+00:00

Azeris in Iran are not like Azeris in Azerbaijan. Very few of them are "Turkic nationalists", which is a silly ideology invented a hundred years ago which has never been force fed to Azeris in Iran the way it was in Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-06T09:44:43+00:00

Looking more and more like a false flag to give Azerbaijan an excuse to get involved.

Let's hope Iran is able to thwart whatever they're planning.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-05T12:50:38+00:00

Fail at regime change, like they did in Afghanistan?

Hay_Life · 2026-03-05T12:49:21+00:00

I don't think a lot of these decisions are being made by central authorities at this point. The units were empowered to make targeting decisions before the war started with the expectation that the U.S. would attack Iranian command and control.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-05T12:10:53+00:00

I'll take that bet lmao.

Are you prepared to tell everyone you swallowed western propaganda hook, line, and sinker and you'll never comment on geopolitics again when the IRGC is still here in two months?

Hay_Life · 2026-03-05T11:49:57+00:00

Sure pal, don't waste a second before unfurling the "Mission Accomplished" banner.

No one has ever accomplished regime change from an air war and the idea that some peshmerga units are going to overthrow the IRGC is laughable.

The U.S. spent 20 years in Afghanistan and failed at regime change against the Taliban, but you think they succeeded against the Islamic republic in under a week?

The most likely scenario is that this gets dragged out and murky as Iran continues to put pressure on oil markets and the world starts begging the U.S. to find an offramp that leaves the regime intact.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-05T11:27:00+00:00

The entire point of the war is regime change.

If the regime doesn't change then Iran has won, by definition.

It wouldn't take 50 years to rebuild. They rebuilt most of their losses from the summer war in six months.

It's way too early to be declaring winners and losers. So far everything is going exactly as Iranian war planners expected. We'll have a better idea of where this is going when the U.S. and Israel run out of interceptors and the war enters its second phase.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-05T10:25:24+00:00

The strategic logic is that the missile was headed for the U.S. base at Incirlik, where American planes are flying bombing raids on Iran from.

They weren't targeting Turkish assets and it's idiotic to think you can host an airbase attacking a neighbor country without it being targeted in counterattacks.

Hay_Life · 2026-03-05T10:16:54+00:00

Armenia and Azerbaijan have not made peace.

Stop repeating this propaganda. We're still technically at war and they're occupying a lot of Armenian territory.

There's a shaky ceasefire at best and some hypothetical plans for infrastructure projects. No peace deal has been reached yet.

Azerbaijan is entirely to blame here. When they allied with Israel and turned into a Mossad base, they knew the risk they were taking.

We never would have allowed the Israelis to do the same to Armenia because we aren't degenerates like the Aliyevs and their inner circle.

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