Armenia’s orchestrated collapse: The grand strategy behind the “peace” plan

What is unfolding in Armenia today is not a peace process but a coordinated disintegration of Armenian statehood—one that has been set in motion by Turkey and Azerbaijan and facilitated by the Pashinyan regime.

This “peace plan” is the South Caucasus theater of the Great Game once fought between the Russian and British empires, now repackaged on NATO’s southern flank through British-Turkish orchestration. Russia is too busy with its own crises to focus on the Caucasus—much like its treatment of Syria—relegating Armenia as a side item rather than an actor at the negotiating table. The ruling party is systematically shedding Armenia’s bargaining chips and strategic levers, with the nation asleep at the wheel.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s rise to power in 2018 was widely hailed as a democratic revolution, but to the trained eye, it bore the hallmarks of an externally coordinated regime change. Pashinyan and his inner circle—including First Lady Anna Hakobyan—were selected for their moral malleability, ideological detachment from Armenian national identity, and susceptibility to pressure, blackmail and foreign influence.

The operation followed a deliberate script. After the Pashinyan regime came to power, a two-year honeymoon period afforded civil society the opportunity to celebrate new “freedoms” and enjoy the post-Velvet euphoria, while deep-state actors usurped the legislative and judiciary branches and removed seasoned military leadership in preparation for the 2020 Artsakh War—a war designed and orchestrated to fail.

5,000 predominantly volunteer, patriotic Armenians were sacrificed, with thousands more wounded or disabled, and Artsakh was ceded to the enemy. This brutal culling served a dual purpose: losing Artsakh as a gambit and eliminating the population segment most likely to resist future betrayals. In a meeting with the families of fallen soldiers, Pashinyan callously told them that they should worry about their other children. Can anyone imagine such a response from a U.S. president or any elected official?

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