Europe’s Two-Faced Politicians

· July 28, 2025

By Jirair Tutunjian

How many times have you read or heard variations of these lines in the Western media? “Nagorno-Karabakh, a long disputed enclave primarily populated by ethnic Armenians, but internationally recognized as Azerbaijan territory”?

The sentence needs several corrections:

1. The territory’s name is Artsakh. “Nagorno Karabakh” is a colonialist word reflecting Russian (“Nagorno”) and Turkish (“Karabakh”) occupation.

2. “ethnic Armenians”: Why “ethnic”? What’s wrong with just “Armenians”? “Ethnic” is an attempt to diminish their Armenian identity.

3. “primarily populated”: “Overwhelmingly” is the correct descriptive. Armenians made up about 80 percent of Artsakh’spopulation.

4. “internationally recognized as Azerbaijan territory.” How many states does it take to identify an organization as international? And more importantly, who decides what is international? In this instance, “international” stands for three groups: the West’s hypocrites; Arab-Muslim bloc “solidarity” with Muslim states no matter the truth or justice; and the uninformed who follow the lead of one and two.

5. When I type Artsakh, the name gets a red underline, meaning I have misspelled or that there is no such word.

Consider this: The same Western states, which in the name of international law opposed Artsakh Armenians’ decision to join Armenia eagerly participated in the break up of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavians who opposed the balkanization of their country were bombed by NATO aircraft, a la Guernica. The message was clear: self-determination for Yugoslavians who wanted to separate from Yugoslavia but not for Artsakh Armenians who had lived in the Armenian territory for nearly 3,000 years.

It’s these same two-faced governments of the West that Nikol “I did it my way” Pashinyan is courting.

How did Artsakh become “Azeri territory”? We “owe” that loss to the Great Lenin and psychopathic Stalin. These two Soviet geniuses believed if they gave Armenian lands to Turkbeijan, Mustafa Kemal would convert Turkey to a pro-Soviet socialist country. The pair also gave Armenian Nakhichevan to Azerbaijan. Thus, when the West says Artsakh belongs to Azerbaijan it is supporting the illegal decision of the two Communist dictators.

In the following seventy years, Azerbaijan tried every trick in the book to “encourage” them to leave Artsakh. This is well documented history. And when, after 70 years of persecution, Artsakh Armenians voted to join Armenia (their right under Soviet role), Baku forces attacked Artsakh and launched a pogrom of the 310,000 Armenians who lived in Azerbaijan.

Israel and its Western backers justify the theft of Arab Palestine by quoting the Jewish Bible–a conflation of mythology, folklore, and some dubious history. But when Armenians point out that Artsakh has been Armenian for nearly three thousand years, the West and its media ignore the historic fact and blandly claims Artsakh belongs to Azerbaijanis whose Turkic roots originate in Central Asia.

The West is free not to give credence to Armenian historians who maintain that Artsakh has been Armenian for millennia. However, they can’t dismiss the words of their own historians and geographers.

The below five leading Western thinkers-geographers have maintained that Artsakh has been Armenian from at least 8th century B.C.:

Strabo, 7th century B.C., writer in “Geograhica”

Pliny the Elder, 23-79 AD, Roman military commander-historian who referred to Artsakh as part of Armenia

Plutarch, 1st century AD, “Lives” Claudius Ptolemy, Roman chronicler-geographer, 2 A.D, identified Artsakh as Armenian.

Dio Cassius, 155 A.D-235 A.D, author of “Roman History” referred to Artsakh as Armenian territory.

Armenians are not surprised by the West’s brazen lies in the glittering halls of the EU headquarters. Armenians know oil is not the only reason the West supports Azerbaijan’ illegal occupation of Artsakh. They know spend thrift Baby Aliyev oils his relationship with European politicians with champagne, caviar, carpets…

P.S. “Carpet” derives from the Armenian “gar-bed.”