Baku and Yerevan had managed to make progress on the issue of delimiting and demarcating the border in one of the most difficult areas – Gazakh. Against this background, the shelling is already a provocation with far-reaching goals. Moreover, Armenia used heavy weapons for the first time in the past year.
But the most important and dangerous aspect is something else. According to reliable sources, Minval.az reported that the shelling of Azerbaijani positions was carried out with the participation, or rather the complicity, of military advisors representing the USA, France, and the European Union. This was done to test the recently delivered lethal weapons to Armenia in combat conditions. Additionally, external intelligence was used to track how the Azerbaijani army would respond to the shelling.
There is also information about the use of sniper rifles provided to the Armenian Armed Forces by the military of the USA and France, as well as by intelligence officers included in the EU mission, against Azerbaijani servicemen in real combat conditions. The selection of advantageous firing positions, withdrawal after shooting, setting up “decoys,” i.e., false firing points, conducting reconnaissance using communication means and other tools immediately after the shelling, and many other tasks were all done in accordance with Western and NATO military standards.
How should this be understood? It’s very difficult to “negotiate on the spot” for such a subversive operation with a crate of Armenian brandy. It is obvious that the EU observation mission in Armenia — EUMA — has finally exposed itself. This is a new subversive mission created by France and the USA based on the ideology of “crusaders.” Otherwise, it is simply impossible to explain the suddenly flaring “love” for Armenia. In the “field,” this mission, which mostly consists of retired police officers and professional military personnel, is not just a group of enthusiasts riding around the mountains with binoculars. It is essentially a French military base in the region. Moreover, France and its allies are openly expanding the “toolkit” to support the remilitarization process of Armenia. For Yerevan, funding from the European Peace Facility is opening up, which, despite its attractive name, is actually a military program.
Of course, such attention from the “big guys” might be very pleasing to Armenia. But this is the same West that has already practically destroyed Ukraine, first promising support in case of war and then failing to keep its promises, and even earlier, in 2008, betrayed Georgia. Today, this same West is dragging Armenia into its game with the same promises of military support, financial injections, etc. While Ukraine and Georgia were subjected to aggression, Armenia itself committed aggression against Azerbaijan and, even after its own military defeat, does not abandon its territorial claims against our country and plans for the re-occupation of Azerbaijani territories.
Armenia, of course, is accustomed to acting as a tool of someone else’s policy and pulling chestnuts out of the fire for others. Today, Yerevan is actively joining the “new crusader campaign in the Caucasus.” But how can Azerbaijan trust the European Union in light of such military programs being implemented in Armenia? Any cooperation and partnership is a two-way street. And backstabbing is unacceptable here.
