“It is my hope and prayer that the long-suffering Armenian nation will continue to strive for the opportunity to live in peace and dignity in your own land. This is the blessing that my family and I, along with all Britons, enjoy. For that great privilege I am deeply indebted to those in my nation who, over eighty years ago, chose to endure a great sacrifice, rather than accepting a false promise of peace.”
This is an excerpt from a letter to the Armenians of Karabakh calling for a sacred sacrifice with a reference to Britain’s choice in the face of Nazi aggression. Its author is the notorious Baroness Caroline Cox, who lives thousands of miles away from Karabakh in her house with an English lawn. Disclaimer: We do not associate either the author’s rhetoric or her position with the policies of the United Kingdom, which has not been known to pander to the aggressive Armenian project.
In her message Cox states that the international community has forgotten about them (Armenians of Karabakh—Ed.) and is forcing Armenia to sign peace, although then Baku will organize their “genocide”. The good old Cox scares the Karabakh Armenians and encourages them to fight. A good part of her letter is devoted to the chilling memories of the atrocities allegedly committed against them by Azerbaijanis. Such pronouncements are intended to arouse the spirit of vengeance in the minds of the ethnic Armenian population of the Karabakh region and raise them to fight.
But whatever hints the Baroness used, knowing her love of jingling coins, one could well take this message as a desperate plea to secure a comfortable life for her in her old age. This is, of course, understandable for an elderly woman. Life in London has always been expensive, even more so now, with the energy crisis and the ensuing price hikes. The “miatsum” project has collapsed, the world centers of power have accepted the new reality and seem to have become immune to all kinds of pro-Armenian lobbying initiatives. In the past, the Armenians and their “miatsum” were a godsend to her. While Baroness was munching khorovats, photographing Albanian churches and writing reports on all this, not only was Azerbaijan developing its economy and strengthening its army, it was also building strong relations with the world centers of power. The ones that are now pressuring Armenia to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan as soon as possible.
The Baroness acknowledges this, by the way. However, interestingly enough, the letter is addressed not to the world powers and not to Armenians in general, but exclusively to “the people of Artsakh”. In other words, Cox went from lobbying efforts to open blackmail, but without any sanctions. Cox’s message is approximately as follows: I slaved for you for thirty-five years, I gave you the best years of my life, I received money, I got used to delicious food and warm bed, and now, in my old age, you make me turn the knob of my heater? And do you have any idea how much it costs to mow an English lawn? This is not your wild Karabakh grass you put in your flatbreads. Are you suggesting I should live on the wages of a peeress? No, this will not do. You must pay. With blood!
The Baroness herself does not promise anything to Karabakh Armenians anymore, not to put in a good word for them in the British Parliament, nor any other help. This proves that she cannot and could not exert any effective influence on anyone. For years all her fuss with trips (and she visited Karabakh illegally 88 times), sympathetic words and promises simulated help, which was greatly promoted by the world elites pandering to the Armenian aggression. Now that support is gone and it has become impossible to simulate the process. The question, however, is whether Cox is relying on other outside forces. She does not seem to be. Especially since the Baroness’s message, as already noted, is addressed only to the Armenians of Karabakh. She removed even Armenia itself from her audience, apparently convinced of the fatal reluctance of the Armenians of Yerevan to live in enmity with their neighbors. The letter even contains some details of “atrocities.” That is an incitement: you must not forget the “cruelty of the Turks”. If you have forgotten, I will remind you. That is the essence of the message. Something akin to metered injections of a drug. One gets the impression that the Baroness is trying to excite the already pretty bruised center of pleasure in the brains of the Armenians of Karabakh. Yes, Azerbaijani Dr. Iron Fist administered a harsh but effective treatment by removing most of that organ from the patient’s brain. The patient has been in a state of apathy ever since. And then Cox comes to the rescue, slipping them an intoxicating picture of long suffering in the hope of a relapse, forgetting that not only was the surgery effective, but the patient is under the watchful eye of the aforementioned Azerbaijani professional, who seems ready to perform a second operation, or rather, a special operation to destroy the remnants of the Armenian gangs in Karabakh.
Thus, we can say for certain that Baroness Cox’s letter is nothing more than a gesture of despair, a kind of epitaph for “miatsum”, to be inscribed on its tombstone. If we were Armenians, we would read the letter carefully to see in it all the tragedy of the Armenian people. It is not in the description of imaginary atrocities of Turks, but in the way you are manipulated through images of mythical monsters, forced to play the role of firewood, essentially, being prepared to become outcasts in the Caucasus. Take in the Baroness’s lines: you are being told what you want to hear, you are being drugged. Note that it is not you who are trying to convince a foreigner of the atrocities of Turks, but on the contrary, the foreigner is convincing you. Isn’t this a blatant example of the external indoctrination of your mind that has been going on the decades? Now that peace is so close, the foreign bird is once again trying to feed the vile seeds of Turkophobia to the still unfledged Armenian generation with its crooked black beak.
But the good news is that Cox has alerted the world in a way that even the West is pressuring Armenia to make peace with Karabakh being recognized as part of Azerbaijan. She does mention this: “I am deeply disturbed by reports that the Republic of Armenia is being pressured by international powers to contemplate sacrificing your homeland of Karabakh to the Republic of Azerbaijan in return for a so-called peace treaty. If reports are to be believed, those involved in the negotiation process say that the treaty will secure the borders of the Republic of Armenia and allow trade to open up with the Turkish world.”
In other words, it is great that the international community has realized a simple truth better than the Armenians themselves: as long as Armenia does not recognize the borders of Azerbaijan, its own borders are a very arbitrary concept. The leaders in Washington, Moscow, Brussels, Berlin and Paris are in fact just as concerned about the fate of the Armenian people as the Baroness. This is why they strongly recommend Yerevan to forget about the “miatsum” and to think about the fate of its own 29,800 square kilometers, cut out of the historical Azerbaijani lands. Which, by the way, is also a well-known fact.
Murad Abiyev
Translated from Caliber.Az
