All right, Alexander, let's talk about the escalation between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

With each passing day, it looks like something is going to happen.

That's going to be very bad for Armenia, and Azerbaijan is going to capitalize on what appears to be a very, I want to say, reckless, but bizarre, Paschignan policy with Nakorno-Karabakh.

I mean, I mean, I understand kind of what he's, I mean, I think everyone knows what he's trying to do

so that he can offload Nako Rokad No Karabakh

and clear the way for entrance into NATO

and the European Union, specifically,

I think more importantly, the European Union

for him and the elite political class in

Armenia.

But it's incredible to think that he's willing to risk so much enter into these institutions.

And he is starting to annoy a lot of people, mainly Russian President Putin, because he's trying to pin the blame on the collapse of Nagorno-Kadabakh.

And the deteriorating relations with Azerbaijan is trying to blame it on Russia.

And it looks like Putin's not having any of that.

No, absolutely. Putin was furious, actually.

And, you know,

it's, he gave an interview, Putin gave an interview when he was in the Far East, and you

could see him almost talking through clenched teeth. He didn't want to savage Pachinian openly.

But I mean, he made it absolutely clear that Prasinian is making decisions now,

that he's not, that he's not telling Putin about in advance and about which Putin himself

is not being consulted. And of course, the key decision was that Pashinian out of the blue

announced that he accepted sovereignty,

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