Geographical cretinism and the European Parliament

Last week, the European Parliament noted another slander against Azerbaijan. Without any hope of success, but only to fulfill the services paid by the Armenians, 36 MEPs sent a letter to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaya Kallas, demanding a review of the EU's policy towards Baku. Moreover, to reconsider "fundamentally."

The petition demands to review the EU-Azerbaijan Partnership Agreement that is currently being prepared, impose sanctions against Baku, and immediately convene a European summit (!!!) to discuss the rights of Armenians to return to Karabakh, to freeze the purchase of Azerbaijani gas until the release of Armenian war criminals, and so on. The members of the EP have always had a rich imagination. 36 MEPs are convinced that continuing cooperation with Azerbaijan without fulfilling these requirements undermines the credibility of the European Union. "We cannot remain silent," they claim.

In this regard, I recall Vladimir Vysotsky's song, which was very famous at the time, about how psychiatric hospital patients write a letter to television about the Bermuda Triangle and demand an answer. The letter ends with the phrase: "if you do not respond, we will write to Sportloto." Where will the figures who disgrace European parliamentarism write after the EU leadership once again ignores their slander? They have nowhere to write to. But that's their problem. You will still have to report to the diaspora for the inefficiency of the fees received.

It is noteworthy that at the same time, a petition was submitted to the US Congress on financial assistance to Armenian separatists and sanctions against Baku. It is clear that the Armenian Diaspora launched the spring "offensive" simultaneously on all fronts. The campaign is absolutely hopeless. Similar campaigns have been carried out repeatedly, it is impossible to count how many senseless resolutions have been adopted over the past thirty years on both sides of the Atlantic, but only once has a practical result been achieved in the form of the notorious 907th Amendment. The diaspora has been demanding that Europeans be banned from buying Azerbaijani oil for many years. Since the end of 2020, Azerbaijani gas has been added here. But even in, let's say, fat times, when the EU had no problems with Russian supplies, it was not possible to achieve proper results. It is unclear what the diaspora is counting on today.

The initiator of the last slur was MP Marie Toussaint. This lady has always been active in the anti-Azerbaijani field. She loudly fought for the recognition of the voluntary departure of Armenians from Karabakh as genocide, she fought for the release of Karabakh criminals, the topic of human rights in Azerbaijan is almost a matter of life for her. Since the beginning of this year, Madame has been fighting for human rights in Iran with no less self-love. Since January, the EP has adopted a number of resolutions on this issue with her active participation. The European Parliament is no stranger to interfering in the affairs of countries outside the EU and unrelated to Europe in general. Sometimes it seems that MEPs are chosen to deal with anything but the problems of Europe itself. And if only they knew the topic they were poking their noses into.

Do the members of the Armenian lobby in the EP know where Armenia is located? We do not ask if they will find Karabakh on the map, where they persistently want to return the Armenians who voluntarily left. This is too difficult a task for them, the search for Karabakh is aerobatics. But would Madame Toussaint have found Armenia on the map, or at least the South Caucasus as a whole, which the unforgettable Josep Borrel classified as a jungle along with other non-European regions? She demands with such zeal what even Yerevan itself does not demand. I wonder if she knows where the country is, under the pretext of protecting the interests of which she and the lobby as a whole are enriching themselves? 

This is not an idle question. The other day, funny news spread around the media and social networks. The French edition of Le Parisien reported that a correspondent of the TMC TV channel conducted a survey among EP deputies in Strasbourg for the Quotidien program. He gave the politicians a map of the world on which the countries were not signed, and asked them to find Iran on it. The survey showed how narrow-minded, uneducated and narrow-minded people are elected to the EU Parliament by citizens of European countries. We don't know if the disgraced themselves consider their lack of education to be a disgrace, but the story spread on the Internet can only be called a disgrace.  

The French website writes that France's Minister Delegate for European Affairs pointed to the Strait of Hormuz, Socialist Party MEP Emma Rafovich mistook Iran for Bulgaria, and Renaissance Party MP Fabienne Keller confused it with Turkey, saying "it's out there somewhere." The same Marie Toussaint, after much hesitation, found Iran in Afghanistan, and her Green party member David Korman wandered into Saudi Arabia in his search. Of those interviewed, only the co-chairman of the Unconquered France party, Manon Aubry, correctly indicated Iran on the maThe French website writes that France's Minister Delegate for European Affairs pointed to the Strait of Hormuz, Socialist Party MEP Emma Rafovich mistook Iran for Bulgaria, and Renaissance Party MP Fabienne Keller confused it with Turkiye, saying "it's out there somewhere." The same Marie Toussaint, after much hesitation, found Iran in Afghanistan, and her Green party member David Korman wandered into Saudi Arabia in his search. Of those interviewed, only the co-chairman of the Unconquered France party, Manon Aubry, correctly indicated Iran on the map. Who later wrote on the social network X that the mistakes would be ridiculous if the European Parliament did not have to make decisions about the US military actions in Iran.

It would be interesting to conduct a similar survey among 36 members of the European Parliament and 46 American congressmen who signed appeals against Azerbaijan last week. How many of them could you find on a map of Karabakh or at least the South Caucasus? They are trying to influence the interests of other countries, to decide the fate of other regions, not only knowing nothing about their affairs, but not even having an idea of thIt would be interesting to conduct a similar survey among 36 members of the European Parliament and 46 American congressmen who signed appeals against Azerbaijan last week. How many of them could yoon a map of Karabakh or at least the South Caucasus? They are trying to influence the interests of other countries, to decide the fate of other regions, not only knowing nothing about their affairs, but not even having an idea of their geography. The resolution that gave birth to the 907th Amendment to the Freedom Support Act is a textbook example. American aid was prohibited before Azerbaijan - attention! - It will not stop the "blockade" and the "offensive use of force" against Armenia and Karabakh. In fact, everything was exactly the opposite, but no one in Congress was interested. The congressmen adopted a very serious restrictive sanction against the country, not knowing what was really happening in the region, not having any idea where Azerbaijan was located, which in Soviet times the Americans called nothing but "Russia." Without investigating the situation, without investigating the issue. The initiative of the corrupt lobby was enough to deal a blow to the United States' relationsThe initiative of the corrupt lobby was enough to deal a blow to the United States' re with its main, as time has shown, strategic partner in the region.

Later, after the launch of the Contract of the Century, the situation began to change. But this did not lead to the impoverishment of the lobby. On the contrary, the diaspora began to pay more, as lobbyists had to work in a different situation. There were no more easy victories like that amendment. Nevertheless, lobby activists still manage to scrape signatures under slanders against Azerbaijan. However, not as much as before.

So the results of the survey conducted by the French media are not surprising at all. Rather, we would be surprised if the MEPs could find Iran on the map. Today, lawmak.