We live in a logic of escalation to escalation or an ultimatum to an ultimatum, where the country is in a state of permanent operational – moment-to-moment management, without more or less formulated strategic goals, without even tactical objectives and the accommodation of all this…
…Half-solutions and provincial cunning will not pass: either Armenia seriously starts doing its homework – strengthening its capabilities in all areas of security as a broad concept, or within this dimension, the possibility for subjecthood closes. And the absence of these efforts is the main motivation for my concerns.
Realism cannot be an excuse for intellectual laziness or unwillingness; otherwise, it is not realism, but either political incompetence or the service of other (often strictly personal) interests.
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