In a historic moment, Armenia’s National Assembly debates EU membership, raising the EU flag for the first time and signaling a major shift away from its historical ally
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by haveschka
In a historic moment, Armenia’s National Assembly debates EU membership, raising the EU flag for the first time and signaling a major shift away from its historical ally
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by haveschka
25 comments
Is anyone still wanting to say “OOh But ArMeNia iS a RussIan AlLy!!”?
Not a good title.
Armenia never had a historic ally. Russia always bullied us.
I wish them good luck on this path.
Sides must be chosen.
Happy to see this 🇦🇲 🇪🇺 , then sad to remember what happened to Georgia
Based
Hell yeah Hayastan, good luck! I seriously hope they get in, the country has been suffering for way too long, they deserve a bright future with a bunch of friends who won’t ditch them first chance they get
Special Military operation in Armenia because of NATO/EU expansionism when /s
Armenia never had a historic ally. This title gives the false impression that it did.
The Russian Empire strongly considered genociding Armenians in the 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia_without_Armenians
The Soviet Union participated in the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh with Azerbaijan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ring
Modern Russia, well, we know this story at this point, and its many acts of sabotage, betrayal, deception, and coup attempts.
I’m just scratching the surface here, there’s hundreds of examples, but this supposed “historical ally” crap has always been a façade for Russia to engage in imperialism and enforce its will upon subjugated states. This is very much unlike real alliances in NATO or the EU, which you choose to join, and provides mutual support and respect for all members rather than the benefit of one.
While I get the Armenian sentiment, I find it hard to become reality because of the geographical isolation, regional interests and difficulty in direct trade and Schengen collaboration.
Yeah let’s get another impoverished state in the EU with heavy Russian influence, great idea
Praticamente tutti quelli che si cagano addosso per una guerra o per l’altra, vogliono entrare in Europa per pararsi il culo. Ma noi europei che ci guadavamo da tutta questa gente che si improvvisa europeista?
I really dont envy Armenians. Politically the poor bastards are playing it on hardmode. Genocidal bullies in all directions. No true allies nearby. Damned if you do, damned if you dont.
As someone from Baltics, at least we managed to enter our cheatcodes (EU, NATO) while we could.
I wish the Armenians a good way forward, peace and stability.
What historic ally? Russians betrayed them.
I think given the current rate degradation by 2025, Russia will be fully kicked out of Armenia, Russia’s relations with Armenia is about to enter into full meltdown mode
Their “historical ally” sold them to their sworn enemy. They’d have to be braindead not to reconsider their standing.
Special Military Operation really achieving its imperialist goals
Poor fools. Relying on the EU for protection has never paid off for anybody.
Good, lets hope they and Azerbadjan can settle on a final settlement and both join nato
Turning to an ally that might actually give a shit about them when it counts. Great news!
I hope we can do something for Armenia in the meanwhile. It will take many years for them to make an accession, probably. But in the meanwhile they need protection from Azerbaijan.
We should not become openly hostile to the Azeri’s but they are feared to attack Armenia again. We should put our European might behind Armenia somehow to prevent war from happening.
It s now or never, join EU, NATO and don’t look back.
Doesn’t matter, we are gonna throw them under the Kemalist-Islamist yoke. I’m ashamed of being european.
In Tomorrows News, Putin warns Armenia about joining the EU as he would hate for a special operation to have to carried out there.
It would help Armenia very much if Georgia would join the EU. By then Armenia is right next to the Union and will receive much more attention and have it easier to convince others it belongs to Europe.
Hopefully Georgia stays on it’s path and will join by the end of the decade. Then Armenia follows in the ’30s.