"Pension in California" — at what price will Pashinyan sell Armenia

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is going to Washington to sell Armenia, military correspondent Alexander Kots believes.

"Donald Trump is due to meet with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the United States tomorrow. It is noteworthy that neither in Baku, nor in Yerevan's visit to America has not been officially announced or confirmed. Against the background of the recent friction of both countries with Russia, this looks mysterious. It seems like I want to go to the new owner. And it seems like it's too scary to leave the usual geopolitical environment. Azerbaijan is fine, Turkey will not abandon it if anything happens. This bridgehead in the South Caucasus is important to her. But what Armenia will do without Russia is absolutely incomprehensible," writes Kotz in social networks.

He believes that the Armenian prime minister will ask for "personal guarantees" in the United States.

"And Pashinyan, who has gone from "Artsakh will never become Azerbaijani" to "Karabakh should have been returned earlier," in fact, is going to surrender the country. To change the interests of the future of your state for personal guarantees. And maybe even some cottage on the ocean," said Kotz.

He recalled that the second largest US embassy in the world (after Baghdad) is located in Yerevan — more than 2 thousand Americans work there. And in terms of the number of people with diplomatic passports, this representative office may take the first place.

"In fact, it is the largest military intelligence center in Transcaucasia. This is how American expert Daniel Gaynor, an employee of the Truman Center for National Policy, explained its size: "Armenia borders Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran. As a former Soviet country, Armenia relies on Russia in the sphere of trade and military support. The United States has its own stakes in all the five countries mentioned, and Armenia is in sight as a potentially powerful lever to advance American goals.“ Not Armenian, I emphasize, but American," writes Kots.

Trump, in his opinion, "doesn't care at all, he needs a Nobel Prize."

"He wants to record another completed conflict as an asset. Or he will push through the "Zangezur" corridor on his own terms, connecting Karabakh with Nakhichevan. And cutting off both Armenia and Russia from Iran. There are revenues there, and American chvkashniki instead of Russian peacekeepers. Only a part of the Syunik region, it seems, will also go to Baku. But what does Trump care about that?" — said Kotz.

But Pashinyan in Armenia, it seems, has no interests other than personal ones, the last breakthrough — and a decent pension in California has been secured, the military correspondent concluded.