Politik.am: The Person Who Declares “Jihad” Against the Church, Buys a “Mousehole” for One Thousand Liras to Crawl Into. Aliyev Humiliates Pashinyan

Politik.am writes:

“Nikol Pashinyan, who has declared a 'jihad' against the Church and portrays himself as an invincible hero, a dragon slayer, a lion in his speeches on the Church and domestic politics, falls completely silent and seems ready to crawl into a mousehole when it comes to responding to the humiliations and insults from Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

A few days ago, Aliyev spoke to foreign journalists in the occupied Shushi. When asked about Armenia and Nikol Pashinyan, the President of Azerbaijan responded with overt mockery and disdain.Pashinyan may very well deserve such contempt as a person, but he holds the office of Prime Minister. And, as he himself might say, it was not Nikol Pashinyan the individual being ridiculed, but the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia.

Even if Nikol Pashinyan, as a private individual, has grown used to mockery, irony, and insults, as the Prime Minister of Armenia, he has no right to tolerate them. This isn’t about declaring war on Azerbaijan - of course not. The point is that even in the most difficult situations, one must preserve a sense of dignity. This is a common principle in the East - and whether some like it or not, we are part of the East. After every instance of Aliyev’s inappropriate behavior and Pashinyan’s humiliated and cowering response, the same question arises: Where is this humiliated and frightened - if not outright treasonous (and for us, there is no ‘if’) - leader taking the Armenian people? It is hard to imagine such leadership guiding us anywhere good.

This is a direct path to humiliation and destruction. When the head of state remains silent in the face of blatant insults from the enemy, that silence becomes a symbol of political capitulation, not diplomatic restraint. Nikol Pashinyan’s behavior is not merely a matter of personal dignity; it is an affront to the dignity of the entire state. The longer this conduct continues to shape Armenia’s foreign and domestic policies, the closer we draw to a catastrophe - one that begins with the loss of dignity and ends with the loss of statehood.”