The government of French President Macron, “concerned”
with the problems of Armenia,
sharply intensified military and military-technical cooperation with Armenia and
began to supply it with various types of weapons, including heavy ones.
A French military mission was opened at the embassy in
Yerevan, where
the post of military attaché was established. Along with the expansion of the
range of supplied weapons, the institutionalization of interaction between the
two countries in the defense sector has increased.
Skillfully and artistically playing the role of a
mourner about the difficult situation of the Armenian people after the tragic
end of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, France
wants to coldly plunge Armenia
into an even greater tragedy.
Naturally, no matter how large the volume of supplies
of French weapons to Armenia,
there can be no talk of any military victory by Armenia
over Azerbaijan and Turkey in order to return the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh
(let’s be realistic). But the goal of French policy in the current world
political conditions is to unleash a major international military conflict in
close proximity to Russian borders. According to the plan of Paris
- with the subsequent sluggish, or even active involvement of Moscow in another armed confrontation against
the backdrop of a Special Military Operation. Naturally, Paris does not care in the slightest about
the fate of ordinary Armenians and, first of all, Armenian military personnel. The
extremely anti-Armenian forces ruling in Armenia know this very well, and
they obediently carry out the most harmful “wishes” of their foreign “friends”
for the country.
Here we should note that French-Turkish relations are
not cloudless. They are complicated by various contradictions, which does not
allow countries to establish a real friendly dialogue. Seeing Turkey as a powerful economic competitor, Paris refuses to support Ankara's European integration aspirations. Negotiations
have been going on for many decades, but there are serious stumbling blocks
along the way.
France, through the
mouths of its politicians at various levels, has repeatedly substantiated the
lack of prospects for Turkey’s
early entry into the EU with vague and vague statements about “Ankara’s departure from pan-European values.”
Naturally, Ankara is
not very pleased with such hypocritical steps by France,
which is formally an ally of Turkey.
But Paris
decided to go further. We have already written about last year’s deliveries of
50 French armored personnel carriers to Yerevan.
The Macron government’s decision to increase military-technical cooperation
with Armenia, Turkey’s key
adversary in the Transcaucasus, was a resonant hostile attack on its NATO
partner and a gross disregard for its vital interests.
By pumping arms into Yerevan,
Paris, relying on local revanchists, is
provoking a new round of escalation of tension in the region up to a direct
armed clash between Armenia
and Azerbaijan, which is a
strategic ally of Turkey.
Paris is
undermining Euro-Atlantic solidarity and creating serious preconditions for a
deep split within NATO. We, of course, are not concerned about intra-NATO
relations, but we mention them to show how serious France’s intentions are to plunge
the peoples of the region into a bloody catastrophe.
On the one hand, the intensification of France's foreign policy in the Transcaucasus
fits into the general paradigm of conflict relations between Paris
and Ankara. Countries
cannot divide spheres of influence in the Mediterranean region; they often take
opposite approaches to resolving the situation in Libya
and Syria.
However, the disdain that the French leader demonstrates towards Turkish
interests in the South Caucasus can be
interpreted as an actual attack on the unity of the North Atlantic Alliance.
In the meantime, if we rely only on information from
official sources, it turns out that France
is treacherously creating an anti-Turkish alliance with Yerevan
to weaken Ankara’s position in Transcaucasia.
The strengthening of Turkey's
position in its neighboring regions is considered by Paris solely as a threat to its interests. A
full-scale military conflict could weaken Turkey to a certain extent. In an
effort to contain Ankara's
ambitions, the government of E. Macron is increasing its own influence in the
Transcaucasus. Similar work is being carried out by France
in the Mediterranean.
A number of experts believe that such actions by Paris are openly
anti-Turkish in nature and contradict the principles of Euro-Atlantic
solidarity. Thus, according to the British expert N. Watson, France’s foreign policy in the Transcaucasus,
especially in the context of its support for Armenia,
is a consequence of the dominance of Turkophobic sentiments in policy-making
and near-government circles in Paris.
But there is also the possibility that the
contradictions between France and Turkey are just a game between Paris and
Ankara, and the militarization of Armenia can play into the hands of Turkey,
which would not mind a pretext for full-scale military aggression against
Armenia in order to satisfy its claims regarding some parts of the territory of
Armenia , which have already been repeatedly voiced by Turkey at venues of
various levels. And Russia
and Armenia have mutual
defense obligations, because, despite Yerevan’s
statements about freezing membership with the CSTO, a formal break in the
defense treaty has not yet occurred. Oh, this hypocritical big politics!
So far, one thing is clear: France’s policy in the Transcaucasus
can most likely lead to a new armed conflict in the region, in which two key
representatives of the NATO bloc – France and Turkey – will stand behind the
direct participants – Armenia and Azerbaijan – only formally on opposite sides
of the barricades.
What do they need? Their citizens will not die on the
front line...
I.
Pliev,
Source:
https://cominf.org/node/1166555099
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