{"id":259012,"date":"2014-10-24T12:32:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T08:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=259012"},"modified":"2014-10-24T12:32:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T08:32:44","slug":"donetsk-is-the-new-karabakh-russias-collapse-only-hope-for-ukraine-armenia-and-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/10\/24\/donetsk-is-the-new-karabakh-russias-collapse-only-hope-for-ukraine-armenia-and-azerbaijan.html","title":{"rendered":"Donetsk is the New Karabakh; Russia&#8217;s Collapse Only Hope for Ukraine, Armenia, and Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">It is obvious that Putin&rsquo;s final objective is to hook Ukraine, exactly as it did earlier with Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani site, Minval.az, spoke to political expert Zardusht Alizadeh about Russia&rsquo;s role in the region and the Ukrainian crisis.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">According to Alizadeh, the Ukrainian political elite were found to be just as foolish, greedy, and short-sighted as were the elites in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia in the beginning of the 90&rsquo;s. &ldquo;Although, more than twenty years have passed, they haven&rsquo;t learned any lessons. They repeated the same mistakes that our political elites had made. They let Ukraine get hooked by Russia.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The political expert thinks, that Ukrainians have unequivocally lost Crimea, &ldquo;because as long as there is Russia, Crimea will belong to it. While Donetsk has turned into a new Karabakh, which is the result of the Ukrainian elite&rsquo;s greed and stupidity, and Russia did what it could and wanted to do.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">After what the West did with Kosovo, in regards to Serbia, no one has the right to call Russia an aggressor, according to Alizadeh. &ldquo;Russia hasn&rsquo;t bombed Ukraine. NATO bombed Belgrade, bombed wedding ceremonies, radio and TV stations. Russia never bombed, but instead did it in a more covert way what NATO did with Yugoslavia to defend its geoeconomic and geopolitical interests. Yes, Russia has violated international norms and the Ukrainian people&#39;s interests, but the Ukrainian state&rsquo;s interests were, first and foremost, violated by the Ukrainian political elite; Yanukovich, the Maidan leaders, and Poroshenko. For the sake of power, they betrayed the state&rsquo;s interests. The same has happenned in front of my eyes in Azerbaijan, when a group of government officials betrayed Azerbaijan for the sake of power. I&rsquo;ve seen the same in Georgia, Armenia, and Moldova.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">When asked about the escape plan under the current situation, Alizadeh answered that the noted countries should put their hopes on Russia&rsquo;s collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as there is Russia, Crimea will belong to it. While Donetsk has turned into a new Karabakh, which is the result of the Ukrainian elite\u2019s greed and stupidity, and Russia did what it could and wanted to do&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}