During the 2020 war, the current government constantly repeated the slogan “We will win”...

06:00:00 22.03.2025

During the 2020 war, the current government constantly repeated the slogan “We will win,” which is actually a very normal and appropriate slogan for any country at war. The problem was not the slogan itself but the fact that the current government, along with the standard “opposition,” had neither the goal nor the intention of winning. However, even if they had the will to win and if everything had not been largely pre-planned, the real issue was that our government never defined what exactly victory would be or what it would look like.

During the First Artsakh War, we achieved military success and victory, reaching our goal of completely liberating Artsakh from the Turks and Azerbaijani armed forces because we had set that goal from the very beginning. Unfortunately, we failed to solidify it politically due to internal agents working within Armenia.

However, in this last treacherous war, there was neither a military nor a political objective. What would victory have meant for us? Most of our compatriots cannot answer this question, even those who consider themselves intellectuals or nationalists. Was victory about reaching Baku? Was it just about holding onto the territory of the former "Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast"? Or, as I and many rational nationalists believe, victory should have meant crushing the Azerbaijani army, fully liberating not only Artsakh but also Northern Artsakh, and uniting it all with the Republic of Armenia as one whole state? The fact that there was no military or political objective tells us one thing—our government and military leadership were either that incompetent and foolish, or this war was prearranged, and they deliberately led us to defeat by stabbing our army and state in the back. It seems as if they were deliberately saying, “We will win,” only to later extinguish the will of fighting and hope of winning from within us.

The standard “opposition” at the time, instead of raising these kinds of questions, was calling for an "end to the war" from the very first week. This indirectly meant surrender and acceptance of Russian mediation. After the war, instead of asking natural and reasonable questions like “Why didn’t we fight to the end and win, as we did 26 years ago in the Artsakh Liberation War?” they were asking, “Why didn’t we surrender earlier since defeat was inevitable?” Any genuine and national opposition would ask the first type of questions if it truly cared about rebuilding Armenia’s army and preserving our independence. Asking, “Why didn’t we end the war earlier?” or saying, “Defeat was inevitable,” is not just defeatist but outright treacherous. This fact tells us that the standard “opposition” is either that ignorant and incompetent or, together with the current Pashinyan-led clan, is directly or indirectly serving the interests of the Russian-Turkish-Zionist onslaught as part of the same Russian agency network.

In reality, we should not have “ended the war earlier,” but rather, we should have crushed the enemy as soon as possible and fully united Artsakh with Armenia, politically solidifying our military victory, and  instead of “defeat being inevitable,” defeat would have been impossible if we had a national government and military leadership with the same will to triumph as the freedom fighters who liberated Artsakh 30 years ago.

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Glory to Armenia and Victory!