Yerevan’s sweet nuclear dreams

/By Azernews/

By Gunay Camal

Yerevan could surprise not only regional countries, but other nations familiar with the region with statement on holding nuclear weapons.

"Armenia has a nuclear weapon," said at a briefing Ex-Prime Minister of Armenia Grant Bagratyan. Being asked to explain the confused journalists, Bagratyan said that he would not explain anything. "We have the ability to create nuclear weapons," he said, adding: "We have nuclear weapons."

For country where aggression and deception is the ordinary phenomenon, twaddle should be a no-brainer. As long as the government and political elite in Yerevan continues to deceive its people and even the international community, the future of this nation will be under threat.

The question is not whether, but how much, such lies can be told.

The statement by Bagratyan, who stated the need for the use of nuclear weapons against Azerbaijan, shows how much the political elite of this country failed to accept the result of its frontline provocations and Azerbaijan’s repulse attacks.

Earlier, speaking in Parliament, Bagratyan called for use of a nuclear weapon, considering it the only way to prevent Azerbaijan and Turkey, to secure Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh from “the aggression of the two neighbors”.

This is not the first such statement by Armenia. Yerevan has repeatedly spoken about "revenge weapons" and weapons, "which Baku cannot even dream". But announcement about a nuclear weapon is more “serious”.

Of course, Armenia has neither nuclear bomb nor the possibility of uranium enrichment. The only thing it has is an outdated nuclear power plant, which truly represents a great danger to the region.

Experts believe that by such statements Yerevan tries to calm down Armenians after the failure on the frontline and its losses.

To restore the image of its army, the Armenian leadership has earlier reshuffled the Defense Ministry and dismissed a number of generals, blaming them for the failure. The recent development revealed the poor state of the Armenian army, which cannot even ensure its soldiers with descent food and such simple items as raincoat.

A number of social projects were recently launched in Armenia to provide the soldiers fighting in the occupied territories with the essentials, while the government’s ministers were buying luxury cars and houses.

The Armenian provocation at the front, which has become almost a test fight for the Armenian army, showed that the ‘strong Armenian army’ exists only on paper and dreams of its leadership. The Armenian soldiers not only lack "Iskander" and nuclear warheads, but also basic items of equipment.

But most importantly, what the aggressor country lacks is the strength of spirit and motivation, which cannot be bought. Armenian soldiers do not want to die for the occupied lands, for the dreams and egos of the Sargsyan regime. That is the reason why the number of deserters, runaways and suicides in the Armenian army increases day-by-day.

In fact the failure of the Armenian army stands in core of the state policy of Armenia, its aggression against the neighbor country and its belief in impunity for its crimes against the people of Azerbaijan.