he also called azerbaijan a nazi state. and i must admit his words had an effect on many - we here are disconnected from the existence in azerbaijan, we read the words spoken there, and the propaganda, but we don’t take it seriously, because we on a deep level, cannot believe it happens and we are longing for peace so much, we can believe it’s indeed reachable. situation here is that people are much less aggressive-nationalistic, would like to integrate, feel themselves the part of the world, not being isolated, solve problems peacefully, and many would accept significant trade offs to establish the stable peace. and the question is, will those trade offs, that weaken de facto armenian security on the field, for the some recognized by both parties intermediate status for artsakh, will those trade offs indeed pay by peace, or we may end up in a worse situation with more aggressive azerbaijan which knows it has even more power, and gaining the remaining territories back in a short war is much more real for them. and in that scenario, would they stop by getting back artsakh by war (which is already a disaster, and means ~200.000 refugees plus a lot of deaths among both military and civilians, and everyone here would be sent to war, and we cannot handle all this), or they would go further by establishing a connection to nakhinchevan and cutting armenia from the iran. and in that case, would be armenia a country which can sustain it’s life, or that would just be the end of the state?

i always say, that feeling the situation on the ground is very important. going to artsakh and closer to the armenian borders, and seeing what is happening there is very important. driving by the road close to the border and knowing you can be shot at any moment is very important. watching the mountains and identifying who controls which one is very important. that brings you down to earth, to the reality. so freed lapshin also brings many to the reality, because he just experienced the azerbaijani reality, where one of the faults he had to pay for, he was ‘guilty’ for was calling artsakh by it’s armenian name, ‘artsakh’. that alone cannot be tolerated there. while that’s completely normal thing even in case of not political, but merely geographic entities - same places, rivers, mountains are called differently in different languages.

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