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Armenian leader announces plan to leave Russia-dominated security alliance (CSTO) as ties with Moscow sour

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Armenian leader announces plan to leave Russia-dominated security alliance as ties with Moscow sour

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Well, it's nice to read a headline that involves Armenia and doesn't involve (directly) Azerbaijan getting bloodthirsty.
~~Special military operation~~ Invasion in... 3... 2...
- To use this term literally for once- them and what army?
  
  Eventually it'll probably be child soldier units made up of the thousands of kidnapped Ukrainian children.
  To be honest, I'm a little surprised they still have enough meat shields that they haven't started doing this yet, but I suppose they must be tricking enough folks from India and the African continent into going to Russia for "work."
- Nah their military is busy stepping on rakes in Ukraine. This is Armenia’s opportunity window
  
  Debatable, its population is more than 10 smaller than Ukraine, much smaller area. Its easier to blitzkrieg through it. But even a protracted grind war they won't be as close to friendly nato countries who can supply fast and active armed forces is under 50k. That would include non-front line roles. So another exercise of 2-300k conscripts maybe push through if they have enough vehicles to carry ammo.
  But yes they are busy elsewhere atm. curiously armenia seems to have 400 main battle tanks and 200 ifvs so perhaps can offer decent resistance for a few days if they work/have ammo
  
  And sending their rusty old fishing boats, err, 'battleships'... to Cuba.
- Or a sudden wave of people "accidentally" falling out of windows in Jerewan. They do have an 85m high "skyscraper" there...
A surprise to very few people.
- Yeah I’m not surprised. Russia left them high and dry, CSTO isn’t worth being in.
  
  Like everything else about the west, NATO was also presented as just a paper tiger and not even worth the paper of the founding document. The cynical way Russians view the world is through their own exceptionalism, and if we can't do it.. noone can. Like the Americans.. but then with less value on human life and dignity.
  And if you repeat lies long enough you start believing them yourself. Now it turns put CSTO is just the Russian goon squad cosplaying as NATO.
  Although I dont think anyone knows what would happen if 2 NATO countries would end up in an open war.
A surprise move from long time Russian-backed Armenia, due to Russia's lack of recent support for its struggle against Turkey-backed Azerbaijan over ethnic cleansing of ethnic Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

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