Armenia’s heavy defeat in last year’s war have raised numerous questions, but the people have not been provided with a logical answer to any of them so far, Armenia's second President Robert Kocharyan, the leader of the opposition Armenia bloc, told a news conference on the anniversary of the third Artsakh war on Monday.
According to him, over the recent year, new questions that also lack answers have arisen.
"The most important question is the following: was the war inevitable or was it deliberately provoked? Was it caused by political naivety? Before deciding to start a war, any state has to conduct an in-depth analysis, comparing the armed forces of its country with those of another country, assessing the domestic political situation in that country, finding out whether they are able to consolidate society in that country. It tries to understand the abilities of the government of the enemy state and how its allies and the military-political units which it is part of would respond,” the ex-president said.
“It's a classical analysis, and you can't make this kind of decisions without it. When a favorable situation emerges on the basis of some of these facts, a decision is made to start a war. This is the alphabet of the state administration," he said.
Kocharyan stated that since 2018 Armenia had done everything possible so that all these circumstances coincided and Azerbaijan assessed the situation as favorable to solve the Karabakh issue by military means.
"The Armenian side brought the negotiations to a stalemate with its contradictory statements; we have made three different statements in three years, sparking the distrust of the OSCE Minsk Group towards Armenia. An opinion formed that we were trying to avoid the negotiation process by trickery. We discredited the army with various criminal cases and split the society into “black” and “white” categories. We demonstrated that in terms of governance, Armenia had a chaotic government, and during wartime such a governance style is simply fatal for the country. We spoiled relations with Russ...
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