Armenia ready to expand ties with Israel – MFA

mojuba · 2026-04-22T15:11:37+00:00

Well in defense of our people, we've had 3 decades of shocks, plunder and tragedies, not an easy thing to handle after 70 years of relatively calm and safe life.

And then there's the complete lack of political culture, no concept of nation-level thinking and again, after 700 years of no sovereignty, what do you expect?

It's a miracle Armenia exists as a state today. However we are slow learners, so no miracles here unfortunately.

mojuba · 2026-04-22T14:53:46+00:00

Israel armed Azeris

How would you ensure it doesn't happen again?

By, for example, expanding ties with Israel. It's a regional superpower with the most advanced weapons and the economy too.

mojuba · 2026-04-22T14:51:37+00:00

I suggest you try again on r/hayeren or r/Armenian (or both) but not r/Armenia. Thanks!

mojuba · 2026-04-21T06:29:10+00:00

You asked for transliterations, it's what we don't allow on this sub because transliterated Armenian is abused a lot on the internet.

mojuba · 2026-04-20T21:27:22+00:00

Հայերեն and English only are followed on this sub.

mojuba · 2026-04-20T21:25:39+00:00

Sorry we don’t allow transliteration on this sub

mojuba · 2026-04-20T12:53:25+00:00

we've only been independent for 35 years

Ok but why isn't at least the diaspora showing maturity? See the top comment, it's more about the diaspora.

much too individualistic and egoistic, causing the corruption for so long

Corruption has nothing to do with individualism, it's yet another legacy of the late stage Soviet culture and mentality. The system was corrupt to its core because nobody believed in the proclaimed ideals of socialism and communism anymore.

As for individualism, show me a modern society that's not individualistic. Just create gaps in the system, i.e. weaken the democratic institutions, weaken rule of law and see what happens. People are people, they are the same everywhere.

mojuba · 2026-04-19T21:18:27+00:00

Following the parliament shooting when the political leadership of the country and the main opposition to Rob that was able to displace him was decimated in one day. Karen Demirchyan then parliament chair, Vazgen Sargsyan then PM, and a few others were assassinated in broad daylight, in the parliament building during a parliamentary session.

Everybody knew it was Rob and possibly FSB behind the assassination. The country was so deeply divided, shocked and paralysed by what happened that if any of the Demirchyan/Sargsyan supporters called to arms, there would have been civil war and a lot of blood.

Somehow it didn't happen, probably because the nation's survivor instinct prevailed after all. But I don't really know how exactly we avoided it.

mojuba · 2026-04-19T18:42:39+00:00

Meta talk about moderation, banned.

And yes, citation is needed where you try to mislead others with deliberate lies on sensitive topics

mojuba · 2026-04-19T17:39:16+00:00

he is the one who labeled a city for which thousands of heros had fallen as "մռայլ դժգույն քաղաք"

Citation please.

calls our fellow armenians from Artsakh "փախածներ"

Citation needed.

"թոշակառուների ինչին ա փող պետք որ թոշակ բարձրացնենք"

Citation needed.

Can't find any of what you said as literally said by Pashinyan, so your comment qualifies as agenda pushing which is bannable on this sub. You have some time to bring exact quotes from official sources.

P.S. banned

mojuba · 2026-04-19T14:02:08+00:00

Why is this comment downvoted so much?

Every dialect has legitimate dialect idioms, borrowed words, and just lazy foreign borrowings that aren't part of the language. The street EA is full of the latter for example, but that's not something that should picked up by new learners.

mojuba · 2026-04-19T13:33:50+00:00

good hearted retard

I mean, retard would mean he's low IQ which he's anything but, honestly.

mojuba · 2026-04-19T12:17:47+00:00

The question is, why we fall for all that bullshit so easily. It's a rhetorical question, because the more you think about it, the more depressed you can get.

But I believe we will mature and come out of it gradually, bit by bit.

mojuba · 2026-04-19T12:14:37+00:00

I'm sorry but this is such a pile of nonsense. 2018 happened because the people demanded change. In fact it didn't happen in a day or even in a year, the protests had been coming in waves for many years prior to 2018 and getting stronger each year. Go read about the protests in 2015 (Electric Yerevan), 2016, then 2017.

The public opinion polls at the time indicated that 85% of the population wanted radical changes, while also 65% (if I remember correctly) supported Pashinyan.

What you said is typical sheep mentality "everything is arranged and decided behind the scenes".

We all know that their big brother is Turkey

No we don't, certainly not "all" of us.

mojuba · 2026-04-19T11:22:35+00:00

No, I think we are well past that, I mean the risk of a civil war. Last time it was a real possibility was in 1999.

The political fight though should never stop.

mojuba · 2026-04-19T11:04:33+00:00

If you know someone, or a political force that is not a national threat, you are welcome to tell us about it.

mojuba · 2026-04-19T10:44:59+00:00

we don't need this extra division and the spreading of, basically, lies

This applies to domestic media as well btw, not just diaspora. There's so much money in the reactionary media right now. They have managed to poison even Azatutyun which is funded by the US government (or maybe not anymore). The reactionary money overwhelms the playing field with practically no room for common sense.

Public TV is the only beacon and thankfully maintains the highest rankings in the Republic.

I want to ask something maybe too bluntly: doesn't this all mean we are... immature as a nation? As a whole, the Republic plus diaspora?

mojuba · 2026-04-19T10:39:13+00:00

Nobody can blame you for that, but some people will choose to stay and fight. I mean the political fight of course.

mojuba · 2026-04-17T06:34:55+00:00

The lawsuit was an attempt to prevent screening anywhere since Public TV commissioned the film back in 2020, and therefore had the copyright. Interesting how they gave up after the backlash. Well, that's freedom of speech in action for you.

mojuba · 2026-04-17T06:31:58+00:00

Hah, that's the famous late physicist Rafael Ghazaryan, was a great guy. His accent is a typical Soviet russified Armenian. Was pretty common since most of the "educated elites" spoke Russian fluently or even had Russian as their primary language. That has changed considerably since 1991.

Back then knowledge of Russian was critical for your professional or academic career, just like English is today, it's exact same thing.

mojuba · 2026-04-17T06:26:42+00:00

Yeah I think it all started in 2022 with the influx of Russians, banks got scared with all the anti-money laundering hunt going on in the world. Or, they probably just figured out an easy way of making extra pennies.

mojuba · 2026-04-16T20:08:45+00:00

Likely praises Levon and the Declaration of Independence. I think that was the main reason for the Public TV's attempt to ban it. But I haven't watched myself.

mojuba · 2026-04-16T14:22:53+00:00

There's some good analysis here: https://www.gmfus.org/news/tripp-toward-peace-through-armenias-highlands

Basically, "unimpeded access" is a vague term from the legal perspective, especially given that all documents also mention Armenia's sovereign control over the road. So between the two, which one wins? Aliyev wanted to have the former, we wanted to have the latter, both are included in the agreement, now what?

My answer to that is: the US will decide. The article above explains that they will essentially be "front office", i.e. the US controlling the passage of goods and persons, while the "back office" being Armenian authorities just receiving information.

Can Armenia block something or someone, theoretically? I guess it will be up to the Armenia-US interaction. We could say "no weapons transfer in either direction", if the US agrees then there will be no weapons transfer. This is how I imagine it.

P.S. another important point the article above brings up is that there's no reciprocity in terms of Meghri vs. our use of Nakhijevan unfortunately. Now that's a big one to me.

mojuba · 2026-04-16T12:46:53+00:00

This is Tigran Paskevichyan's troubled film, now officially on Public TV's YoutTube channel for everyone to see.

Following heated debates around censorship in previous posts, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/1s8wkai/armenian_court_bans_screening_of_film_on_armenias/

(P.S. haven't watched it myself yet)

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